“Tell me about your customers.”
Last summer I kicked off a new project called IDEAVIS, a visualization tool built for design researchers and ethnographers…
Here’s a fun demo of how to use D3.js with Heroku DataClips:
The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it.Edward de Bono
Our field is full of tools and techniques for planning and executing contextual research projects, but the truth is sometimes you just have to make it all up as you go. I ran into this during a project while interviewing local farmers in Savannah. I wanted to understand how…
I stumbled onto this recently and got really excited. Mohionote is a prototype from a group of students at The University of Auckland, New Zealand. It builds a graph visualization of notes and tags from an Evernote notebook. I’ve been looking for something like it and even considered…
Over the past few years we’ve had opportunities to work with many amazing startups, from one coast to the other and everywhere in between, but some of the most exciting (ambitious!) new…
Rapid prototyping isn’t about validating…
In The Man Who Lied to His Laptop, Stanford professor, sociologist and HCI researcher Clifford Nass shares dozens of eye-opening discoveries about human nature and sociality. This book is…
The tale of a man building the most beautiful, but most dangerous machine.
Watch the full video here.
Some of the most interesting revitalization work in Savannah is coming not from the traditional — and often unsuccessful — saviors of decayed neighborhoods. It’s coming from design students, who are earnestly trying to find ways to work with local residents without igniting…
Designers know how to throw a good conference, and the 2012 Design Ethos conference in Savannah, Georgia, was no…
My MFA thesis sent me into a Design space that I can’t imagine any of my friends or…
Economies of Trust
In universal algebra and in model theory, a reduct of an algebraic structure is obtained by omitting some of the operations and relations of that structure. The converse of reduct is expansion. Wikipedia
Sharing the design process across space and time
Unconventional thinking is distracting, if not outright threatening. It’s hard to argue with rational decisions…
