Interaction design + urban planning.
The semester is humming nicely along. I have an incredible group of about nine grad students in my Visualizing Information
Turquoise, me, and the new NPR.org.
The Poynter Institute’s review of the new NPR.org was one of the few to specifically note our use
On design, food, and French-kissing porcelain.
The Italians would never serve espresso in anything but beautiful porcelain. Sant’Eustachio, Rome. Photo by Callie Neylan, 2005.
Clink.
On artificial intelligence, gerbils, and The Lion King.
Photo via www.disney.co.uk
I saw The Lion King on Broadway this weekend and I can’t stop
On what product designers can learn from the Velveteen Rabbit.
When Seth was little, one of his favorite audio stories was The Velveteen Rabbit, narrated by Meryl Streep and accompanied
Life is beautiful on public transportation.
When you think about it, we are all affordances.
The word “affordance” was originally invented by the perceptual psychologist J.
Cmd-Z, white space, and the alpine interface.
I like to write about unconventional user interfaces. Like cities and ski resorts. I don’t know about you, but
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
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
