The NYTimes ran an article very relevant to design.
According to the article, The Macklin Intergenerational Institute developed a program called Xtreme Aging as a sensitivity training program for schools, churches, workplaces and other groups that have contact with the elderly.
Increasingly, these types of simulation programs are going to be important for designers [...]
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I’m back!
26Jul08Hi there, after another long hiatus due to the crazy schedule I’ve had the last few months. My summer semester just finished up at the business school, and now I really get to sink my teeth into the Electronic Learning Record again. It’s getting exciting– we just found a guy to join [...]
Attention venture capitalists that have some extra money to throw around, or motivated and interested entrepreneurs:
You should invest in creating a good auction site. Wha-What’s that you say, eBay already exists and has monopolized the online auction market?
Have you ever tried to USE eBay recently? as a buyer OR a seller? [...]
I’ve learned from working with the experts in human inquiry methods at the Institute of Design a lot about learning about patterns of daily human life. As we know, there’s very little asking of questions necessary in most interviews on the researcher’s part.
Lately I’ve been looking into more participatory approaches into design, which somehow [...]
Ok, explain to me… why WOULDN’T it have a cut and paste functionality, remind me again? I mean… c’mon! If you’re going to make it a fully featured mobile device, you better have the basic functions that I’d use between Safari and mail, like copy and paste.
…and THAT’s why I’m not going to [...]
I didn’t fully appreciate the lessons that I received from Larry Keeley’s Innovation Frontiers class last semester until I started to explore the X-prize model in depth.
Listen to their elevator statement:
“The mission of the X PRIZE Foundation is to bring about radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity. The Foundation fosters innovative, high-profile competitions that [...]
On May 22-23 (Thursday and Friday), the Institute of Design is hosting a Strategy Conference at the Museum of Contemporary Art.
As usual, I’m pretty excited about the speakers: notably, Bill Buxton, AG Lafley, Roger Martin, John Seely Brown, and Paul Polak! How amazing is it that we get so many great minds in [...]
Today, Swapnil, Matt and I visited the Museum of Science and Industry in Hyde Park.
I’ve already seen the museum before (I’m not a huge fan to tell you the truth), but we went specifically this week with the intent to see the Green + Wired home exhibit.
Michelle Kaufmann, a well known prefab/modular [...]
At design school, I get surveys all the time. I do some of them. Actually, I do a fair number of them if they are for a class or to help the school improve in some way. Surveys are a easy way to get quick quantitative information from a large sample size [...]
Hi everyone, I am working on creating a prototype of something called the New Options Initiative at school, in concert with the Kellogg Foundation. I’d love to get your thoughts on a video mockup that we plan to show business leaders.
If you have just a few minutes, I’d love to get your thoughts on [...]
As we march forward on building prototypes for the enlightened “presentation” experience (and for the New Options Initiative project in prototyping workshop for that matter), I think about all the captivating ways we can have people on the edge of their seats in anticipation listening to our story.
I’ve seen tons of prototypes and alpha/beta [...]
SND29: The 2007 World’s Best-Designed Newspapers from Society for News Design on Vimeo.
The best designed newspapers of 2007, according to the Society of News Design, in case you were interested.
Akzia from Moscow, Russia: Courageous; unconventional typography, spirit of fearlessness
Expresso from Paco de Arcos, Portugal: Surprising; Large, visually striking photographs
Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung from [...]
The time may not be very remote…
14Apr08 image courtesy: Culver pictures
More than a 100 years ago, HG Wells, the notable science fiction writer, said:
The time may not be very remote when it will be understood that for complete initiation as an efficient citizen of one of the new great complex world wide states that are now developing, it is as necessary [...]
Micromanaging yourself
28Mar08Lately, in the vein of a project I’m working on with Sri, I’ve been thinking a lot about analytics as it relates to personal growth and development.
Enterprises have used dashboards because, as the cliche goes, knowledge and information is power. And the credibility and confidence to make the right decisions. (ignore the fact [...]
Online confessions
16Mar08 Confession on Good Friday
flickr:felber
Recently, I blogged about how designers might embrace the coming move (I think exodus might be too strong a word) towards virtuality. I mentioned that this might be a good stage to understand people, their interactions (and ultimately their motivations and emotions) for design purposes. [...]
