Yesterday I presented our research on using data visualization inside the social web at Web Directions South. Here’s the slides from the presentation, and an associated report we published for the research.. You can read the notes with the presentation over at slideshare …read more
on design literacy
October 7 09
After yesterdays chat with Dan Hill, the EdDirections workshop, and werock event last night, I’ve been thinking about how design moves out of the studio and into the cubes & labs. …read more
design. experience. interaction.
September 25 09
so – after a few weeks getting my head very damaged, I’m feeling a lot better about were I am wrt a meta discourse on interaction design. Highlights from the past few weeks for me were:
- Herbert Simon’s use of the word “cookbooky” in Sciences of the Artificial
- Richard Buchanan’s “placements” and subsequent alignments I started to see with
- Dewey’s “expressions” as opposed to “statements” (via Jodi Forlizzi’s thesis)
- The notion of “free indirect style” James Wood uses to describe the way novelists will slide from third person to a semi-first person perspective, in order to put you into the head of the character (without being so explicit)
I’m pretty excited with this last bit, as it leads on from some of the thinking I’ve been having around design fiction (particularly sci-fi) – namely that the fictitious novel form has a way of leaving enough out so that the reader can inhabit the experiences of the characters. The experiences are re-simulated (ooooh nice, just thought of that 
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A college whose goal is
September 8 09
“… the creative person who thinks politically and is familiar with modern methods, and who with social responsibility and his own creative talents designs the lifestyles of our technological and industrial age.”
Inge Scholl, 8 May, 1950
The view behind the foreground. The political history of the Ulm School of Design (1953-1968)«. Stuttgart 2002.
Photo: Hannes Rosenberg: Inge Scholl bei der Arbeit für die Ulmer Volkshochschule. November 1949., originally uploaded by ReneSpitz
kaospilots publication #1
September 3 09
the wonderful kaospilots have published of their exploits over the past two iterations.. great stuff to see coming out of the new education scene!
slow…
August 23 09
Design at the threshold
August 23 09
At our recent ixda board retreat (caveat – I’m an IxDA Director) there was overwhelming agreement that we (the org, network, & field) were at a tipping point. Technological culture has extended to affect so much of our experience*, and it’s clear that Design is going to play a pivotal role in helping us thrive in the world we’ve (largely unwittingly) designed for ourselves. …read more
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.
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!
Social Visualization Patterns
July 9 09
Today we launched the first major public outcome of a project I’ve been leading for the last year, a site documenting our Social Visualization framework. You can check it out at http://socialvizpatterns.info …read more
