Writings

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Jun

Hello world!

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12
Jun

Thoughts on the beauty of interaction design.

I finished Sam Shepard's latest book this weekend and started Consequential Strangers this morning before getting out of
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12
Jun

Two-dollar discount.

Next door is ATM. Dmitri's. You get cash. I give you two-dollar discount.  Thick, Russian accent. Twinkle
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12
Jun

How bad design turned my plane around.

Let me tell you a little story about a Blackberry, bad design, a deaf man, and an airplane. I was
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12
Jun

NPR's The Picture Show.

I recently had a blog post published on NPR's The Picture Show. Does this mean I'm
12
Jun

On inspiring and inspiration.

Today I received an email asking for a letter of recommendation for someone in a not so far gone past
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12
Jun

Cities, urban interfaces, and consequential strangers.

I heard a piece on WYPR the other day on consequential strangers and how important they are in our daily
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12
Jun

The eldest.

My sister Megan, 1970-something. Purgatory ski resort, just north of Durango, CO. This morning, when I liberally applied my
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12
Jun

Write, then.

I am inspired by Orangette. I want to write. I really do. And what this means is that I need
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12
Jun

No design is good design.

Last semester, I taught a course on visualizing information at MICA. I used Tufte's first book, The Visual
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