12
Jun
Nasty Golden Retrievers and the MFA.
I love that I get home before Will sometimes now that I no longer spend three hours a day on
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Callie Neylan
12
Jun
Rhetorical appeals in interaction design.
Once you start looking for connections, connections spontaneously pop up to say hello.
For my presentation last week in Boulder
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12
Jun
Flaxen alabaster.
Dark brooding silver sway.
Her hair behind the camera, laughing. She’s smart, that one. And more spirited than five-
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12
Jun
Here comes trouble. Her name is Ada.
“Good designers make trouble.” – Tibor Kalman
Ada Louise Huxtable wasn’t a designer, but she made trouble. About design. For
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12
Jun
I am an instrument. Stroke me.
Alex Ross ruminates on the differences between live and studio recordings in his New Yorker article, The Record Effect:
In
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12
Jun
Dogs as users and humans as iPhones.
They say that intelligence can be measured by a species’ ability to use tools to accomplish goals. Alexandra Horowitz, in
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12
Jun
On the undesigned vs the aesthetic.
I’ve been trying to perfect my latté art for months. Like anything that looks really easy, it’s not.
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12
Jun
"F" is for failure.
JK Rowling, speaking at Harvard on “The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination”:
You might never fail
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12
Jun
On dogs, R2D2, C3PO, + beautiful interactions.
Beauty is mathematics. Beauty is objective. Or subjective if you insist, but only within a range of mathematical objectiveness. But
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12
Jun
Beauty is like phyllo dough.
In researching the aesthetics of interaction design, I’m at the part where I’m trying to articulate what makes
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