Category Archives: random thoughts

Trivial objects and the stuff of life: a story

 
I’m reminded of reading Bill Buxton’s Sketching User Expereinces again for our first UXBookclub in Melbourne early this year. Particularly the chapter that starts with a story about the orange juicers; Experience Design vs. Interface Design. But this post isn’t about that, its about an experience I had a few months back that really brought [...]

plugging it all together

I’m adding twitterfeed to my blog – let me know if these updates are annoying

writing up

Had a great meeting with Soumitri today, looking at the recent interviews and workshops I undertook with designers and educators in the bay area.
I have realised for a while now that I need to get me some discipline around writing. Today I think I saw one way forward: do it the same way I learned [...]

designing is a teaching & learning situation

When we design, we make and engage with making. What we make may have physical, systemic, and memetic attributes, but the engagement with making (that makes what we do designing) builds that reflective feedback loop of learning.
Whenever we design something, we also design ourselves a little.
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Extropianism

I’m wondering how much the accelerationistas are direct emergent properties of Cartesian ideas, hybridized in silicon hothouses…