Since our University of Toronto eBooks User Experience study has been completed, its time to share what we found. But first, I’d like to compare some current progress between different eBook and future book research initiatives. I’m tracking projects such as OCAD’s SmartBook, the Institute for the Future of the Book, Dave Gray’s “unbook” collaborative, and . . . → Read More: What else might the eBook be?
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Perhaps it isn’t all about the product. Adam Hanft makes the point that clumsy marketing and mediocre corporate culture with no sense of its own creative force led to “a marketing failure, probably the biggest one in history. It takes years of monumental incompetence to squander the biggest, deepest love affair the American consumer has . . . → Read More: Who really killed the American Car? So now also says Bruno Latour, in a keynote lecture given at History of Design Society, Falmouth, September 2008 “A Cautious Prometheus? A Few Steps Toward a Philosophy of Design.” The fourth advantage I see in the word “design” (in addition to its modesty, its attention to detail and the semiotic skills it always carries with it), . . . → Read More: All Design is Redesign UK’s Trendwatching gives us OFF=ON. Everything offline takes on characteristics of the online (esp Web 2.0) world. Indeed this is a trend many of us have pushed with clients overly investing their brands in one medium/world or the other, but not both effectively. The primary vector in their article is mapping online features, design, and interaction . . . → Read More: OFF + ON Information overload has been with us since the dawn of electronic media. According to McLuhan’s theories (and Robert Logan’s recent enhancements to media theory), when we humans overextend a communications channel, we create a new one. We create one commensurate with the increased volume and complexity of content that our culture generates. When we overwhelmed the . . . → Read More: Opportunity Overload |
Blogs have evolved into several popular forms - mine is an old-school online publication of written works in progress. While the topics range widely, they reveal my interest in understanding the emerging social meaning of technology in use, finding better ways of designing for knowledge and organizational practices, and progressive interpretations of systemic innovation. The title is meaningful - I see design processes as dialogic. Not just iterative, but design as languaging, both verbal & visual. We co-create & co-interpret in shared languages. A dialogic orientation requires we discover and appreciate the perspectives of all participants in a socio-technical system. Dialogue is performative designing - it requires both discipline and improvisation, to enable emergence of new meaning in human systems. We hold these dialogues every 2nd Wednesday in Toronto: Realize that dialogue has occurred when speaking leads to a new state of mutual understanding, and right action arises. This is also the purpose of designing. |
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