Monthly Archives: September 2008
What American Designers Can Do to Help the US Economy
Notes from IxDA-SF’s “Breathing Life into Buildings”
Tom and I went last week to go see "Breathing Life into Buildings: Interaction Design for Physical Spaces" hosted by the San Francisco chapter of the Interaction Design Association. Continue reading Notes from IxDA-SF's "Breathing Life into Buildings" >>
Small Steps Towards Sustainability
On Drawing
Designing Products in an Open Source World
My friend and former colleague Brandon Schauer tipped me off to the Open Prosthetics Project. It's a really fascinating glimpse into the future of product design, when the values of "Web 2.0" (transparency, community participation, hackability, the sharing of data) permeate fully into the world of physical objects. Continue reading Designing Products in an Open Source World >>
Review: The Big Switch
Nicholas Carr has written an important, yet readable, book in The Big Switch: Rewiring the World from Edison to Google. It's a book that, if the thesis is true, (and I suspect it is) it will have vast implications for those of us working in the technology and product design fields. Continue reading Review: The Big Switch >>
