Brendan + Action, originally uploaded by marc.thiele.
Category Archives: General
Payment Mechanism Colour Coding
It might just look like rows of colourful folders – but this office cabinet provides at-a-glance understanding of the money flows through this dentists office.
Glance-able information as a side effect of physical data storage.
A walking sack of squishy meat and liquids, awash in chemicals
Amy Hoy says, Don’t listen to Le Corbusier–or Jakob Nielsen:
Architecture is not just a way to house bodies and fulfill function, but to feel. Software is no different.
A superpower I keep forgetting I have
The other day, I asked a colleague for the street address of a company we work with.
(As I might have to visit next week and have the spatial coordination of a drunk goldfish in a spinning bowl, I will need the address in order to program my GPS.)
While he rummaged through his address book, I [...]
Ch..Ch..Changes
Ch..Ch..Changes, originally uploaded by moleitau.
Matt Jones has a new MacBook Pro, to replace his old one.
Which had, among other things, one of my sketch QR Code stickers on it.
(Sniffle.)
Ah, well. In with the new.
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service design vs. media design
service design vs. media design, originally uploaded by antimega.
“Spimordial Soup”
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Computers are still dumb. We are better served by building systems with lots of nubby bits — rough surfaces that allow people grab on and that collect ephemera as they travel through time — and opportunities for people to re-arrange them rather than designing automated thought-leaders.
–Aaron Straup Cope
How I spent my weekend
Plastruder Assembly, originally uploaded by jazzmasterson.
This is the last component of the Makerbot. I’m taking my time with it.
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power
MakerBot Power, originally uploaded by jazzmasterson.
My MakerBot CNC Printer arrived today.
I got excited and took a lot of pictures.
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Handcrafted Site Clinic
Handcrafted Site Clinic, originally uploaded by jazzmasterson.
This past weekend, I went up to the Handcrafted CSS Workshop in Salem, MA.
It was a lot of fun. Be sure to check out Jason Robb’s sketchnotes of the workshop. I would post mine, but his are better.
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