Archive for December, 2005
Monday, December 12th, 2005
Shameless Self-Promotion
Check me out on today’s Gizmodo:
Question (is) Everything: Design that answers unimagined questions
Note please the Half-Life shout-out at the end (hi, Harry!).
If you want to read Eric Von Hippel’s Democratizing Innovation, cited in the essay and a major inspiration for my own thinking on the topic, it’s available from his site under a Creative Commons […]
2 Comments » - Posted in Interface design, Product design, Technology by Misha
Saturday, December 10th, 2005
Theory brain
Yesterday, sitting under the beehive dryer at Devachan, listening to The Sunset Tree on my iPod nano, the disconnect between the comfortable pampering of my surroundings and the painful autobiographical stories that underlay the genius music I was listening to, the music that I was using to keep myself occupied during the twenty minutes […]
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Wednesday, December 7th, 2005
My job makes the papers
Today, information design is a chi-chi professional trade that is so rarefied it has split into a series of subdisciplines with names like “user experience design,” “library and information design” and “user interface design.”
(Cory Doctorow, “Flights of Fancy on Flexible Chips,” NYT 12/7/05)
“Chi-chi”? Oy vey.
In my experience, the User Experience Designer, the Information Designer, […]
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Thursday, December 1st, 2005
The fundamental difference
When New York appears on screen, the establishing shots are familiar, but once you’re in close-up, it looks nothing like the real thing.
When Los Angeles appears on screen, the close-up shots all look familiar, but the establishing shots are all of somewhere else.*
(*This is becoming even more true of Vancouver, apparently, where many lower-cost TV […]
