Recent Activity
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COINs Con 2009 Coverage for Core77
Monday, November 2, 2009 We are a collaborative species. No single perspective could possibly cover every aspect of an issue, but together through the collage of our collective experience we wage war on the challenges of our reality.
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USAA Mobile
Mobile Web + iPhone UI Design A recap of my time as the "mobile guy" at USAA
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Capra to Margolin, and Back Again
Thursday, October 15, 2009 Fritjof Capra has established a sound conceptual framework based on complexity theory which unites the biological, cognitive and social aspects of life to form a holistic model for living systems that can be applied at all levels of complexity.
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Synthesis, Part 5: Back to the Basics
Thursday, October 15, 2009 As we explore the ideas of Capra and Margolin, we can see that designers have the potential to make a significant impact on the many communication failures that cascade throughout our world. The good news is these ideas are not difficult to put into action.
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Synthesis, Part 4: Redesign Well-being
Thursday, October 15, 2009 The problems that define our era are driven by the social values that are exchanged to inform and preserve our sense of well-being, and we, as designers of those values, are failing miserably to do anything other than throw more fuel into the furnace.
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Synthesis, Part 2: We Need to Talk
Thursday, October 15, 2009 Communication is everything. Based on our previous understanding of a living system, we can begin to identify communication failures at the root of nearly every major challenge we face today. Designers, it's time to start paying attention.