• Notable Reads for 20 Mar 🔗

    When Your Body Says No | Outside Online Read at 11:27 PM Stop trying to solve traffic and start building great places Read at 9:54 PM Ruined by Deisgn: How Designers Destroyed the World, and Waht We Can Do to Fix It — Amazon Read at 9:32 PM #BitcoinTwitter and #CryptoTwitter! Square is hiring 3-4 … read more

  • Notable Reads for 19 Mar 🔗

    Designing digital products for bioinformatics — Part II Read at 2:48 PM STRIKE! Magazine — On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs Read at 2:28 PM John Maeda: In reality, design is not that important Read at 1:57 PM Elite Colleges Make Low-Income Students Feel Unwelcome - The Atlantic Read at 12:06 PM … read more

  • Notable Reads for 18 Mar 🔗

    People can sense Earth’s magnetic field, brain waves suggest | Science News Read at 11:28 PM Just enjoy the ride – Steve Bodner – Medium Read at 3:05 PM Spending Time With a Grieving Community – Painfully Hopeful Read at 2:47 PM 8 Sustainably Designed and Architecturally Significant Buildings in … read more

  • Notable Reads for 17 Mar 🔗

    Elon Musk: the Architect of Tomorrow— Rolling Stone Read at 10:15 PM Musk: Osborning His Model 3 – Monday Note Read at 5:33 PM Micromobility Industries on Twitter: “Welcome to our second week of #MMCharts..” Read at 11:05 AM I spent a week in a VR headset, here’s what happened - YouTube Read … read more

  • Notable Reads for 16 Mar 🔗

    Can cars deliver micromobility? Read at 10:35 PM [Leighton Cusack on Twitter: New project I’m working on: t.co/IWVcPAds9… ](https://twitter.com/lay2000lbs/status/1107087187747704832?s=12) Read at 9:55 PM Cars Are Alternative Transportation on Twitter: “The funny thing about adopting … read more

  • Notable Reads for 15 Mar 🔗

    In the midst of putting this together, got into a conversation about parents vs parenting. The approach of fostering whatever might come next seems like something wel-suited for those who are parents. And yet, if we were to listen to the news of the day, it would seem like everyone has the … read more

  • Reflecting on ‘19 So Far

    Usually, the middle of the week has been used to share concepts or lingering sketches for current or past projects. Felt like taking things a different direction, reflection of a wider sort. What’s been pandered about so far this quarter? What are the themes to be found? Augmented Intelligence … read more

  • Deep Thought Paradigm: Workspace

    Further ruminations on the specifics of “deep thought” paradigms in a workspace Weird the things which cause a rekindling of former thoughts. In a recent tweet, having nothing to do with the topic of interfaces or work, there was a spark rekindling the previous discussion of deep thought UI … read more

  • Notable Reads for 8 Mar

    It was almost written like a “poor me” metronome. That look back over the week which wasn’t as successful as hoped. Which wasn’t as ground-breaking as it could have been. This was almost written like that. And with barely a step back — technically, the backspace key — there’s something more about … read more

  • Notable Read for 6 Mar

    Simply because this could not wait for Friday’s collection. Feels like it’s too important of a topic to the @microdotblog community: A Privacy-Focused Vision for Social Networking via Facebook read more

  • Auditing the Peculiar ID/UX Setup

    Documenting and adutiing a peculiar (to some) way of working in the interaction design/user experience space When using an iPad Pro as the primary workstation for experience/interaction design, the suite of tools and the workflow is just a little bit different than many. While a shock to some, its … read more

  • Status As A Serivce by @eugenewei

    Status As A Serivce by @eugenewei Probably a good thesis for @microdotblog as well as a note of caution and hope for success read more

  • Notable Reads for 1 Mar 🔗

    Looking at one of the last snowfalls of the season out of the window, am reminded of there always being just a little bit more on deck than whatever might be planned or expected. In the project management space, we used to say something like, “whatever they give you as an estimate for the delivery, … read more

  • Concept: On-Demand Disability Transit App

    Concept: On-Demand Disability Transit App read more

  • Unshapen and Focused

    Being thrust back to the future of unshapen mobiles and their implications Spent a nice day recently, conversing with other information/experience design professionals during World IA Day. Some of the conversations sprung towards either the tools we use, or how hard it is to focus product and … read more

  • Notable Reads for 22 Feb 🔗

    Fast and slow. A reminder of the cold of winter, the persistence of bias, and the surprise of ingenuity. These swings are merely the moments of life’s extremes, with life being defined by what comes in between those moments. Still, there’s an unrelenting desire for those extremes at times. Perhaps … read more

  • Simply Perspective

    Using perspective of the future to communicate a simply, accessible present Living in a space where there’s some freedom towards experimentation and its resulting analysis often leads to incredibly simple insights. However, getting to that point is not so much a matter of iteration, or even … read more

  • Notable Reads for 15 Feb

    Resonance… That word spoke to what kept coming back towards this week. Not simply because resonance is both noun and past-action verb, but because there’s something about the way some pieces of work have rippled across the ether which seems to invite something more to the cannon than what’s … read more

  • Reviewing Concepts

    Taking some time today to review a few past concepts. The ideation that led to these (and a few others) could use some refreshing. IoT Diagnostics Library Card Wallet PhD Search Notebook IxD App And at the same time, looking back at these causes a flurry of questions about the greater role … read more

  • Human Factors of Efficiency

    Perspectives of humane factors for defining efficiency Long before Avanceé was a clear concept, work was a series of support and design efforts looking at problems spaces from a perspective beyond the stated problem. Solutions invented had the effect of snowballing towards more. Some of those … read more