Design Matters (16): Singapore MRT maps
These three maps in slightly different positions in Singapore’s Orchard MRT station are all orientated correctly according to the point of view of the user.… Read More »Design Matters (16): Singapore MRT maps
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Technology (22): Francis Bacon on Combinatorial Innovation, the Big Three Technologies of the Renaissance, and Pure Science
CX. There are, moreover, some inventions which render it probable that men may pass and hurry over the most noble discoveries which lie immediately before… Read More »Technology (22): Francis Bacon on Combinatorial Innovation, the Big Three Technologies of the Renaissance, and Pure Science
Resource: Structuring Stories with Mary Robinette Kowal (2) – MICE Nests and the Pinging of Narrative Elastic
The Information Architecture of Narrative If you came in late, start here. Tool 2: MICE nests Mary Robinette Kowal’s second insight into story structure is… Read More »Resource: Structuring Stories with Mary Robinette Kowal (2) – MICE Nests and the Pinging of Narrative Elastic
Technology (21): Dan Wang on Technology as Process and Learning by Doing
This is an extract from a much longer article by Dan Wang. His point about the learning-doing feedback loop applies to just about everything, of… Read More »Technology (21): Dan Wang on Technology as Process and Learning by Doing
Technology (20): Software Eats the World (again)
Software Eats the World means… … that any product or service in any field that can become a software product will become a software product.… Read More »Technology (20): Software Eats the World (again)
Technology (19): Kevin Kelly on technological transitions as informational revolutions
This is a crossover post with the Literacy as Technology thread – I’ll weave some of these ideas in there in the coming days. Kevin… Read More »Technology (19): Kevin Kelly on technological transitions as informational revolutions
Finding the phrase
It isn’t just the idea that counts, but how you say it and how you show it. The (metaphorical) map is not the territory, but… Read More »Finding the phrase
Design Matters (8): Where’s that file?
I can make a reasonably sensible filing system, but tend to fall down when it comes to the practice of administrative maintenance. Like personal hygiene,… Read More »Design Matters (8): Where’s that file?
Design matters (7): Death by PowerPoint
Design / information architecture / clarity, simplicity and focus matter a great deal – probably more than you think.Highly recommend the whole of this post… Read More »Design matters (7): Death by PowerPoint
Design Matters (5): the information architecture of a water dispenser
Here are three water dispensers: … may not be a thing of beauty but it’s clean and relatively well designed in terms of the aesthetics… Read More »Design Matters (5): the information architecture of a water dispenser