In his recent TED talk, Julian Treasure treats sound as a material for businesses, an insight that changes the way designers should approach common spaces.
Testing Ambiguity
In between precision and art, data can be presented in an ambiguous way, so as to force the observer to become a co-creator of its meaning. This is one key insight that informed the Kazomi project, now in Alpha testing.
Iterating CHI Student Design Competition
With each running of the CHI competition, the bar has been raised on both the quality and depth of the projects. It has also increased the focus on “winning.”
Design Lessons from the Twitosphere
A Google programmer and a pain-relief drug company learned the hard way how quick things change in the land of Twitter.
Natural Design
“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.