I’m thinking of the presentation I’m giving in a week or so at uxaustralia titled “A (very) short history of ambiguity”. Its related to my PhD, and I need to be careful to hit the right tone as its not an academic conference or audience.
One thread of the presentation will discuss Etienne Wenger’s take [...]
Category Archives: news
Visualization as reification
August 6 10
Designing Discussion
July 28 10
Hi everyone,
Thanks for a great class last night. Here's the start of what i hope will be a reasonably steady stream of articles and postings that help expand your thoughts on design research.
Today, I'm linking to a blog from the Cooper Hewitt school, and a post where the students are critiquing some work by Dunne [...]
week 1 – course outline, epistemology & your interests
July 22 10
This week we discussed research by asking ourselves "what is knowledge?"Working in groups, we brainstormed ways of understanding different approaches to epistemology. Building models that helped communicate how we understand knowledge. This process is important to experience, because it demonstrates the multiplicity of voices that we have (even among 11 students).
From these different opinions on [...]
What is this purple icon in the top status bar of my iPhone?
June 24 10
Sent from my iPhone
Posted via email from overlobe’s posterous
Back in the Theater: introducing subjects Part 1
March 1 10
Its great to see how other teachers introduce their projects.
Today I’m adding a 20 minute section to a subject introduction seminar (post about my bit here), and it’s great to be back in the theater. Kyla’s intro is awesome.. using tinderbox to situate her subject this semester in the context of previous subjects, and what [...]
Maybe this is my new blog
August 22 09
Very exciting news from posterous around their new features.. As an easy way to post and automate rich additions for the meta content of your post, this could form the basis of publication engine quite easily.
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The Social Life of Visualization
August 2 09
We’ve just published an article, The Social Life of Visualization, over at JohnnyHolland.
The article introduces our framework for Social Data Visualization, and gives a good intro to the idea of object centered social systems. Let us know what you think!
Leaving Titirangi…
January 6 09
we’ve been here in the awesome Colin McCahon residency in Titirangi since Xmas. What a wonderful time it’s been! To be able to stay in such a fantastic house, flying through the trees here is just pure decadance.
As you can see – Luca has really loved it.. (that’s the original house in the background)
Research Trip and Board Retreat
October 9 08
I recently returned from a trip to the US and Canada, checking in with Interaction Designers in and around San Francisco for my PhD and undertaking strategic planning with the IxDA board in Vancouver.
On the PhD front, I visited with Prof. Terry Winograd and Bill Verplank at Stanford University, and spoke with them about their [...]
