The politics of sustainable design

Let’s face it, green design, sustainable design, ecological conscious innovations all of these concepts are highly politicized ideas. It’s inevitable. Every time you have innovative ideas they must enter into the arena to compete with the ideas of folks who’d like to see more of the same. The main reasons? The usual suspects: money and […]

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Has metacognition arrived in popular culture ?

What is Metacognition ? “Metacognition is the knowledge (i.e. awareness) of one’s cognitive processes and the efficient use of this self-awareness to self-regulate these cognitive processes (e.g. Brown, 1987; Niemi, 2002; Shimamura, 2000). ( Wikipedia entry for “Metacognition”) Meta cognition can help us understand that there are many different types of thinking tools at our […]

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The Buckminster Fuller Challenge

Quoting from the Buckminster Fuller Institute website: The Buckminster Fuller Challenge seeks submissions of design science solutions within a broad range of human endeavor that exemplify the trimtab principle . Trimtabs demonstrate how small amounts of energy and resources precisely applied at the right time and place can produce maximum advantageous change. Solutions should be: […]

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My new blog on user experience

I started a new blog on another blog hosting system. At the moment I am just trying it out to find out how I like it. So far I am not impressed with GoDaddy.com’s blogging tools – so, the experimentation may end up soon. But until I decide on another format this new UX blog […]

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Disruptive Thinking

The Art Center College of Design is organizing some discussions under the label of Disruptive Thinking. Check out their their webpage to learn more about the events surrounding this collection of topics. Source: Global Dialogues Related: Experientia -  Art Center College Opening a Global Debate

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Design and the Elastic Mind

An interesting way to document the historical interaction between science and design. This interface features over 300 designs that are featured in an exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art. This is a good example of an exploratory, discovery-based interactive environment. Museum of Modern Ar: Elastic Mind Related: Visualizing Meaning (Cornell University) ………………….. -Daniel Montano […]

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Possible First Legally Blind Governor in NY May Be Good News for Accessibility

There are a few conversations about a possibility that David Paterson, Lt. Governor of New York to be promoted to the position of New York Governor to replace Spitzer. “…Paterson is a leading advocate for the visually and physically impaired. His 2004 speech at the Democratic National Convention marked the first time a visually impaired […]

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The New Digerati IRL

“The new digerati have brokered a new online/offline balance as they find their “first life” in the real world unexpectedly attractive: face time trumps Facebook. They do not respond to emails on the weekend, as they are hiking, traveling, or engaging in some world changing social endeavor — from running an AIDS marathon to volunteering […]

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What does experience design have to do with sustainability?

I am glad to see questions like these popping up within my own field of experience design. When we talk about sustainable design we are not only talking about the design of products and services but also the design of all the experiences that are related to sustainable behaviors, attitudes, values etc. Alexa Andrzejewski, over […]

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Harvesting the Energy of Crowd Movement

“Two graduate students at MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning want to harvest the energy of human movement in urban settings, like commuters in a train station or fans at a concert. The so-called “Crowd Farm,” as envisioned by James Graham and Thaddeus Jusczyk, both M.Arch candidates, would turn the mechanical energy of people walking […]

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