For regular readers who aren’t ID students, I wanted to give you a reminder and heads up that this year’s Strategy Conference is coming up in May. I am already extremely excited about the speakers coming this year.
I am working with several esteemed colleagues here at the Institute of Design in putting together a publication [...]
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Well boys and girls, it’s going to be a busy semester again here at ID, but meh, might as well be, this spring break will be all the more restful and relaxing. Maybe I’ll even skip taking an intersession and go on a two week vacation?
Cultural Human Factors
Social Human Factors
Design Analysis
Design Synthesis
Design Languages
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Ok, okay. After pretty much a month long hiatus in Philadelphia, I am back to yakshaving. Well, I have always been performing the act of yak shaving, but I am back to blogging I mean. To tell the truth, I kinda missed writing for the [...]
For the past several days, I’ve been trying to declutter my parents house of old stuff that’s been sitting around forever. Admittedly, a lot of the stuff is mine that they didn’t know they were allowed to throw out because I was away at college, working in KC or Bangalore, or at school in [...]
When I showed my brother this, we both immediately (but separately) thought there were some pretty interesting learnings to be had from this kid’s gradual re-introduction into society. If only there were a way to do it without making it too Truman Show-ey or Big Brother-ish.
Sometimes, while in the very fragile state of mind, during ideation sessions you bolt out with a flash of inspiration and a great idea, someone in your team (or an rss-feed-equipped-photographic-memory troll from the deep recesses of your brain) will leap up and pull up the website of a company that is–to be blunt–already doing [...]
If you’re wondering why there haven’t been any posts in a while, it’s because it’s finals time here at the Institute of Design. We’re all collectively scrambling to turn out final presentations, semester long workshop deliverables, and I’m still helping a few guys finish up loose ends for a class that I am assistant-teaching.
I [...]
If you are like me, you have too much stuff going on in your head at one point in time, and you owe your affliction to the mass of crud we’ve come to know and love, the intarweb.
I’ve ranted in the past about biz plays to decrease the amount of clutter and use sense-making technologies [...]
I didn’t mean for the title of the post to attract you here (If I hear Web N point “oh” anymore I think I’ll choke someone). But if there is anyone at all who I think has a strong sense of what is coming down the pike, it’s the group over at Twine.
I’ve been [...]
Cool biz model (pay once for the device with EVDO access), but I don’t like the electric paper display still.
Maybe if the paper had a nice texture and malleability to it, it’d be better. And more people would use it. Haptics, Bezos, haptics!
I saw Beowulf last night in 3D with John. It’s just one of a new spate of 3D digital movies that are coming out within the next year. Spielberg is coming out with a 3D movie as well, according to Wired.
I think I’ve pretty much decided that in order for me to pay the [...]
This idea would work really well with miniaturized consumer electronics that have increasing storage but bandwidth still seems to be lacking.
In the developing world, this means that really anymore, there is only a one time cost hit for the massive storage (and maintenance). Then, each file that is downloaded on a user’s machine is [...]
I think if I started playing Will Wright’s Spore, I’d be in need of this South Korean Save-You-From-Your-Interweb-Addiction business.
If only there was more TIME in the day, or I took less classes, as Eric hinted at this week in the New Idiom.
Crazy.
This semester, I’m fortunate to be working on the business model for the electronic learning record with an esteemed colleague at the Institute of Design.
The Electronic Learning Record, for the uninitiated, is a project sponsored by the John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation. We’re trying to develop means by which students (and “non-students”) [...]
