June 2011
“By explicating the design process we see how making things, particularly science...”
– Near Future Laboratory » Theory Objects & Design Patterns
May 2011
“There’s a reason that design-based innovation firms (like my firm, Doblin) have...”
– How exactly will the new meaning makers arrive on the scene?: Observatory: Design Observer
“When the day shift reported for work the next morning, they saw a big...”
– When nothing else works, try this
“To better understand what William S. Burroughs might have had in mind with the...”
– Douglas Kahn: Cellular Phones: Corporeal Communications Technologies in William S. Burroughs and L. Ron Hubbard
“But image is also a culture-linked language that you have to master, and this is...”
– I Read Where I Am
“Thanks to its linearity, a book contains time; that is why people keep books in...”
– I Read Where I Am
“When we fall into the trap of believing or, more accurately, hoping that...”
– Contrast : James Shelley
“Instead of seeking excuses, the successful project is filled with people who are...”
– Seth’s Blog: Looking for the right excuse
“When we get more confident a new phase opens up. We believe more in our process...”
– Designing in the open - (37signals)
“A well-written review tends to inspire confidence about the product, even if the...”
– The Value of Teaching Your Customers How to Spell - Justin Fox - Harvard Business Review
“But this other invention of the mirror with a memory, and especially that...”
– The Stereoscope and the Stereograph - Magazine - The Atlantic
“Getting a coupon for the Gap is great, and those shorts will look *awesome* this...”
– Moving Money, Moving Lives - Blog - Driving Better Futures.
“Compares the evolution of the personal computer to the so-called Revolution in...”
– Xerox PARC, Apple, and the Creation of the Mouse : The New Yorker
“Peace is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a...”
– Thomas Merton (via azspot)
“That said, if you look honestly at the world, you see a new story emerging, with...”
– Worldchanging: Bright Green: Bruce Sterling: “Make No Decision Out of Fear!”
“Education is not something you’re given, but something you must steal.”
– Design Professionalism: Preparation for Professionalism - Design Education
“creative work seems to be an exception. In fact, the exhaustion from...”
– Seth’s Blog: Underextended
“I suspect I’m not the only one in our industry that is starting to find...”
– The Expanding Role of User Experience Design | UX Magazine
“Except for people who lived alone, our study participants uniformly reported...”
– iPad Usability: Year One (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox)
“For instance, Auto-Tune, which is now used on basically every pop record, was...”
– BLDGBLOG: Spacesuit: An Interview with Nicholas de Monchaux (via iamdanw)
“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I...”
– George Bernard Shaw (via azspot)
“There is abundant evidence to show that high building make people crazy.
High...”
– Christopher Alexander’s “A Pattern Language” « Hans de Zwart: Technology as a Solution…
“…games are fun because they teach us interesting things and they do it in...”
– The seduction secrets of video games - Farnam Street
“The way to get things done,” says Schwab, “is to stimulate...”
– When nothing else works, try this
“A designer who is not also a couturier, who hasn’t learned the most refined...”
– (Yves Saint Laurent, 1936)
(via owlscatsandeggs)
“A genius is a genius, Simonton maintains, because he can put together such a...”
– Why is managing the creative process so difficult? - Farnam Street
“When people are speaking, they naturally pause about 4 or 5 times a...”
– It’s not what you say: The way we talk sways our listeners - Farnam Street
“Malone found that group intelligence is correlated with the average social...”
– Do Smart People Make Smart Teams? - Farnam Street
“Across many diverse examples, the method stayed the same: imagine specific...”
– Overcoming Bias : The People’s Romance
“One always finds one’s burden again.”
– The Myth of Sysiphus 