Inspiration

His visualizations inspire me. That said, the 15-minute data aggregation thing feels a bit like data slavery.

On distinguishing between art and design…

“One of the big differences between art and design is that art is mostly about commentary — it’s making a statement that you’re expecting other people to contemplate and be moved by, emotionally, or altered by, in terms of their perceptions.”

“Whereas design is really about solving a problem that makes something more pragmatic, and useful, and valuable or valued, and of course you can add qualities of aesthetics to that, that make it also a delight. At the same time, if it fails on the functionality side, all is lost, whereas if it fails on the delight side, it might still fit into a lot of people’s lives in a satisfactory if not an exciting way.”

~ Bill Moggeridge

Source: mcwade.com

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It seems about half the people in our group are developers of some sort, and knowing that our tools vary from the ancient but flexible VIM editor to the jazziest tools in Visual Studio and CS, I figured Zeleznik’s programming in “bubbles” wouldn’t be straying too far for most of us.

YouTube video of Bubble UI.
(sorry, don’t know how to embed videos)

If this interests you, and you’re even remotely into math, you should check out Zeleznik’s Hands-On Math UI (http://www.cs.brown.edu/people/acb/cv.html)

On asking good questions… looking for new modalities… not trying to fix things that are broken… and how understanding should precede action. Leaving me wondering about evolution versus revolution… and the Steven Wright joke that if you have enough time, everything is within walking distance… and the extent to which frustration (and a dash of arrogance) downgrades the effect of a message.

Source: Core77.com

The Vignelli Canon

Source: Boagworld

SVA Dot Dot Dot Lectures: Jason Santa Maria from MFA Interaction Design on Vimeo.

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