Category: Design
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Designed to Never End
Adam Greenfield seemed really excited about Matt Webb’s year-end wrap-up, so I checked it out. It’s a bit of an abstract ramble of ideas, which didn’t excite me as much. But one idea sparked a thought: “In order to keep going, the path of a user through a website must be designed to never end.…
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Identity Design
According to BusinessWeek, it’s all about me in 2008. Identity will replace experience in design. This bodes well for my thesis project, which is all about identity design. I’m so ahead of the curve.
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How I Became a Designer
This post is inspired by Jack Moffet’s Mystory, which was inspired by a recent IxDA discussion on when/where/how you decided to become a designer. To answer this question, I could go through my life story—army » engineering » poetry » journalism » web producer » editor » web developer—but that would be rather long and…
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“Emergence” (book review)
Steven Johnson’s “Emergence” attempts to connect the lives of ants, brain activity, urban interaction, and software to show how decentralized and bottom-up interactions emerge as an intelligent swarm. I was at first skeptical about the book, as it seemed to take a very scientific view, which I am wary of given my thesis on design…
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My Blogs of 2007
Dan Saffer just posted his list of the best interaction design blogs this year. Missing is his own blog and mine (just kidding about mine—but perhaps one day). Given grad school time constraints, I don’t follow many blogs these days. But here are a few I have found either insightful or troubling over the year:…