February 2012
7 posts
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design is a small world with its own language
Designers will agree that it’s a small world. Within its field and further subdivisions, design pulls its population from a global crowd. What language is much of the design world spoken in?
If we consider 56.6% of the internet is in english & we consider the fact that much of my colleagues are exposed to new designs by using the internet. How might the “standard language”...
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generation differences
Follow me on this one:
Perhaps in a hypothetical world everyone only married someone their age and had a baby at 25 (average age of first time mothers according to the cdc).
The baby gets born and 25 years later finds someone their age and has a baby.
If this continues for a while perfectly, Individual generations (25 generations) would be more similar amongst themselves than with any other...
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Interaction Design & Industrial Design
Experience Design, Interaction Design, Industrial Design, Product Design; what is the proper way to discriminate those who focus on the interaction of a product & the experience they create from the designers who just make beautiful objects, problem solve, or design user interfaces (on a screen)?
The process is definitely different. A lot of interaction/experience design (on a screen or with...
"box design"
Box Design? - make it pretty, but it’s a box
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everything one day will be beautiful
All things should be made beautiful, but when something can’t, then at least it shouldn’t distract from the things that are beautiful.
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Ethogram
e·tho·gram/ˈēTHəˌgram/
Noun:A catalog or table of all the different kinds of behavior or activity observed in an animal.
Ideas are like which genitals?
Do you believe design is like sperm, you can always produce more—even if the quality may not always be great?
Or do you believe design and ideas are like eggs, where there exists a limited supply. One day we’ll all go through menopause and have no more of an ability to generate ideas