“Instead of using plant branches, this patented approach takes malleable roots and shapes them into useful objects for indoors and out.”
Open Design
Mozilla Labs invites anyone with an idea to offer it to the world for critique and iterative exploration. Welcome to open source, design.
Design C & A
In 1972, M. L’Amic asked Charles Eames 29 questions about the nature of design. She never asked Carter. We did.
Design in the Real World
“You nailed it. I think that is pretty spot on. Having said that … we’ve got some minor tweaks.”
BlogSchmog goes to the spa
Every now and then, you realize it is time to do a little spring cleaning, even when it isn’t spring. For the seventh time in over eight years of publishing, the face of BlogSchmog has changed.
Designing What’s Next
A central theme of disconnection between theory and practice was meant as a call to HCI theorists to improve both the communication and the pragmatics of technique. That disconnection applies in the other direction, too, in how we perceive and intervene in the evolution of the World Wide Web. Perhaps we need a little more theory in our practice of predicting the future.
Questioning what you think you know
Last Friday, Eugene Spafford became the first of four speakers in a new Distinguished Colloquia series offered by the School of Informatics. Spaffords talk, “The Value in Questioning What You Think You Know,” was a reflective look at current hardware and software practices, many of which are based on the computing landscape in the 1950s.