Recent Articles
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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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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.
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Synthesis, Part 3: Ecology of Collapse
Thursday, October 15, 2009 Parts 1 and 2 touched on the self-destructive tendencies of unnaturally designed systems, so let's shift gears a bit and try to extend this new perspective to the big nasty problems we are faced with today. Before we can solve a problem we must define it.
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Synthesis, Part 1: Living Systems
Thursday, October 15, 2009 A 10,000 ft glance at Fritjof Capra's 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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Semantic Layout Framework
Wednesday, October 14, 2009 The success of the USAA mobile site served as a model for another initiative that I tried to push while at USAA: a lightweight and portable layout framework based on the simple concept that form should reflect semantic structure.
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Robert Redford is My Neighbor
Monday, October 12, 2009 Luck is waking up to discover Robert Redford has hijacked your neighborhood for a 10 second shot of a man walking up a flight of stairs. Thanks, Rob. Also a big shout-out to the City of Savannah Parking Services for once again failing ...
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Collaborative Sustainability, Sustainable Collaboration
Monday, October 5, 2009 This past summer I was involved in an intense project involving the local communities of Hudson Hill and Woodville, Harambee House, Healthy Savannah, SUGA, the CEF, and the EPA. It was crazy awesome.
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CoolHunting in Cambridge
Thursday, October 1, 2009 I recently had the good fortune to attend a week-long CoolHunting Academy in Cambridge as part of an exciting collaborative research initiative between MIT, SCAD, Univ. of Helsinki and Univ. of Cologne.
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Get a Rhythm
Monday, March 9, 2009 "Flow" is a big deal in the UX world. Everyone wants to create it, but what kind of flow, exactly? I believe there are two distinct types aimed at achieving the same effect, only on much different levels.
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It’s about time, eh? Well, here we go
Saturday, March 7, 2009 It's been a long time, my friends. I've been a very busy lad, but I'm stepping out to recoup and reset. I'm also back in school! Catch up on where I've been and what I plan to do in 2009.
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Information Hiatus
Sunday, February 22, 2009 There is a war being waged for your attention, and your most valuable resource is at stake: time. Do yourself a big favor and just clip on the blinders. The world won't implode upon itself. I promise.