Guiding Principles for Design
5 Apr, 2016
An attempt to articulate the ‘why’ behind how we design, and what should guide us Over the past five or...
Writing & rambling
Stories, goings on, and a bit of whatever else comes to mind
Design as a profession is at a crossroads
27 Oct, 2015
Will it evolve to a higher level of thinking or fall into commoditization? james denham [CC-BY-SA-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons...
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10 Feb, 2015
Heemong Kim, our instructor for Graphic Design 1 (and 4 & 5) at Rhode Island College had a rule for...
This is our craft. This is our art.
24 Nov, 2013
I read a thread on Twitter today between (among others) Harry Roberts ( @csswizardry ) and Aral Balkan ( @aral...
Content modeling & the trouble with too many parts
19 Feb, 2013
Content modeling is a pretty interesting emerging topic these days. Karen McGrane (@karenmcgrane) and Jeff Eaton (@eaton) had a great...
Curiosity: not just for killing cats anymore
22 Aug, 2012
It’s what drives innovation. It’s what drives the web. It’s the force behind the questions ‘Why?’ and ‘What if?’ If...
Design Thinking: it’s what designers do
13 Apr, 2011
Design Thinking (DT) is a pretty big ‘buzzphrase’ these days, it’s true. Big in business education, business innovation writing and...
Complicated vs. Complexity
30 Jun, 2010
and how Design Thinking helps tame one and avoid the other Recently the topic of complicated versus complex has come...