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5 in 5
I developed a series of projects (4 and half to be exact), that explore interface and interaction. I was particularly interested in creating projects that aren’t much on their or with a single user. They come to life through the participation of a larger crowd. While they were each completed [...]
I am your Witness
I am your Witness is an effort to provide people with privilege (white males like me), an opportunity to interface and intervene with people victimized by systemic police misconduct. Unlike the large incidences that lead to headlines and hearings, the small instances of racial profiling and harassment are difficult to [...]
Idea Bank
Idea Bank is a tool to facilitate collaboration within Parsons’ DT MFA program and between this group and our peers in Trans Design. It is a bound book that allows people to submit and browse project concepts to connect the range of skills needed to bring the concept to fruition. [...]
Alt Social Network
Everyone’s abuzz today about changes on F@$!book. We cannot forget however that nobody makes us use it. Their network is nothing without your participation. Diaspora offers a compelling alternative. It’s a decentralized platform designed to give you full ownership and control. Read a few words from them about their service below. [...]
Flow through the Threshold
Slides from presentation on an installation of three interventions to aid breaking creative barriers and environmental distractions to achieve a mental state of flow.
Stop Designing Solutions
Designers today face a task of immense proportions: creating for a world destructing under the weight of our precedent. We try to learn from our missteps, correct our mistakes, only to find ourselves repeating history. We need a paradigm shift, not more careful design. We must start designing for awareness. We [...]
Point point, click click
I’ve often wondered why we’ve never seen a computer offer two users the chance to control two cursors at the same time. On a split screen or a shared space, there could be countless opportunities for collaboration, particularly in the field of education and games. Hopefully all the new touch [...]
genealogy of software
Not-so Safe Connect
The New School university requires [tries to require] Wi-Fi users to download Safe Connect to control wireless Internet access. Students and faculty are concerned that this software can gather users’ private information and transmit it freely as its private makers (Impulse Point) see fit. We are supposed to comply on [...]
enter WordPress
WordPress has an interesting place in the history and development of personal web publishing and of the open source movement. For better or worse, it has become one of the most widely used open source platforms of any type. It’s success and failures cannot be ignored. I have always appreciated how they [...]
Computer for the 21st Century
A few excerpts from Mark Weiser’s The Computer for the 21st Century. The state of the art is perhaps analogous to the period when scribes had to know as much about making ink or baking clay as they did about writing. The vanishing of electric motors may serve as an [...]
Cube it
What do Prototypes Prototype?
Prototypes allow us to test aspects of a design and iterate toward the strongest solution. They reduce the cost failure increasing flexibility and opportunities for experimentation. Have a clear understanding of what aspect of a project they test. Aim for the nodes below, though most fall on a continuum between [...]
QR Query
QR code to a survey on overcoming a creative block. Links to: http://bit.ly/qiFmhx
Non-entrance
Non-entrance is a collaborative project in process: http://www.tumblr.com/tumblelog/nonentrance
reNew Year
10 questions to reflect on the year past and the year ahead. renewyear.com