Super ambitious architect and designer William McDonough gave a talk at TED about designing for all children of all species for all time. He mentioned his book on the subject called Cradle to Cradle, which he points out was not printed on paper. In his deadpan sense of humor he explains,
Imagine this design assignment. Design […]
The Information Age is directly responsible for the modern generalist because it makes specialist knowledge so accessible. The main product of the Information Age is most undoubtably the web, which is based on ideas of linking and interconnecting across information. When it’s all there and hyperlinked, you’re just asking for generalists. Those in the tech […]
SuperHappyDevHouse 17 is happening this Caturday on Cinco de Mayo.I, for one, welcome our new lolcat overlords.
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There once was a command line. It was a powerful thing. Not only could you navigate your filesystem and launch applications, you could program shell scripts to automate tasks and make convenient shortcuts.
One of the major sources of power there was the simple construct of input and output. A program could read from STDIN […]
Tonight I’ve been toying with the idea of personal utility and aesthetic. The way I see it, like most systems, people can be viewed as having both function and form. The idea of usefulness and emotional experience. In a more general sense, these are very interrelated things that generally work together, but like most models, […]