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Design micro to macro
There are some interesting parallels between the ideas in Janine Benyus’s book Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature and Richard Gabriel’s recent essay “Design Beyond Human Abilities” (big PDF).
Biomimicry is a survey of solutions the natural world has come up with to solve problems. Everything from spider webs to photosynthesis to the way chimps medicate themselves [...]
Thoughts on some new books
There’s a handful of new design related books available now. Both new titles and new editions of old favorites. “Sketching User Experiences” by Bill Buxton and “User-centered Design Stories” edited by Carol Righi are new and Alan Cooper’s classic “About Face 3” has been given a major update.
No time to write up lengthy detailed reviews [...]
Everyware by Adam Greenfield
Findability.org mentions a new, not-yet-released, book from Adam Greenfield, Everyware. Adam just did a talk at the East Coast IA retreat titled “Everyware: Planning for the user experience in ubiquitous computing” and described it thusly, “Everyday life—the domain of ubiquitous computing—is largely terra incognito for today’s interaction designers and information architectects, with their models based [...]
Kepler’s Bookstore goes out of business
“Kepler’s, a landmark bookstore and cultural icon of the Menlo Park/Palo Alto area for more than a half century, abruptly closed for good this morning.
“’This is it,’ owner Clark Kepler told about 40 employees at a 9 a.m. all-staff meeting, shedding tears. Employees were left stunned and reeling from the announcement as Kepler cited [...]
The Conversations – Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film
The Conversations : Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film / “Walter Murch is a true oddity in Hollywood. A genuine intellectual and renaissance man who appears wise and private at the centre of various temporary storms to do with film making and his whole generation of filmmakers. He knows, probably, where a [...]
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