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Overcoming failure through good design

I’ve been doing a lot of reading on design theory and process lately, including articles in architecture and industrial design publications, blogs (Google Reader has seen no mercy) and the occasional whitepaper. One book that’s been particularly helpful to read is Donald M. Norman’s The Design of Everyday Things, originally published as The Psychology Of [...]

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Weighing in on the Facebook home page redesign.

On the night of March 11th, 2009, I logged into my Facebook account and was met with the home page redesign. I’ve been holding off on writing any commentary on the subject until I fully experienced the entire update (save the above status update as soon as I logged in). At first, the amount of information I had [...]

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Innovating the design process

Take any communications class (or major in advertising like I did) and you will invariably research the importance of the Industrial Revolution in the history of the industry. Innovations like the printing press, the telephone and the personal computer have been catalysts for speeding up communication between multiple parties. The internet has [...]

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Major changes afoot at Facebook

If you don’t know much about my musical tastes, you should learn that the one thing I really love musically is remixes. I think it’s great to hear someone else’s interpretation of an original song and how they can mash it up with another song. Not to discredit original artists—I merely love the [...]

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