Month: July 2013

  • These designs usually stem from directly mapping a data structure into a UI and expecting the result to be usable. Don’t design like a programmer « User Experience Design Training & Consulting–UX Design Edge

  • The UX Design Skills Ladder has several constituents: The ability to recognize problems The ability to identify solutions The scope of design knowledge The method for making decisions The ability to give and receive feedback The ability to persuade others Here it is:

  • Exhibition proposals. These suffer from a lack of openness. This is an issue we are actively grappling with at our museum. We receive frequent inquiries from artists and community members about how thy might submit exhibition proposals for consideration by our institution. At many museums, the curatorial process is completely closed and undiscoverable–“don’t call us,…

  • Personas: Dead yet? « User Experience Design Training & Consulting–UX Design Edge

    Personas: Dead yet? « User Experience Design Training & Consulting–UX Design Edge If you do only five things: 1) Keep it simple and focused. Focus the persona on the design task at hand, not the target user’s entire life story. See what you can do with one page and at most two hours, using the…

  • Photoshop CC: modest upgrades shackled to terrible “rental” model | Ars Technica

    Photoshop CC: modest upgrades shackled to terrible “rental” model | Ars Technica There are probably a lot of you reading this who never actually got to look at the feature set of Photoshop CC because Adobe’s Creative Cloud licensing made it all a non-starter. Introduced with version CS6, the license initially debuted alongside the traditional…

  • The effects of this acceleration are spatial as well as temporal. Although it was founded in 2008, the aggregator website Contemporary Art Daily, for example, became a primary storage site for images of contemporary art around 2011. On the one hand, Contemporary Art Daily replaces the discrete pages of the print journal and the gallery…

  • Tower of Sleep: More

    Tower of Sleep: More THE WAY IN WHICH this meme migrated—from gallery to screen to gallery, between artists on different continents, continuing into more recent exhibitions such as “New Pictures of Common Objects” at MoMA PS1—was a consequence of the specific technical apparatus that hit critical mass around 2011….

  • And I hope that someone, somewhere heard Engelbart died and found his extensive archive and found her mind aflame with new ideas for how humans, working together, can improve themselves. Alexis Madrigal at The Atlantic. The Hut Where the Internet Began (via protoslacker)

  • A video profile of Jan van Toorn — one of Holland’s most influential graphic designers. This profile is one of 100 video profiles of Dutch designers, fashion designers, and architects from the Dutch Profiles series. Dutch Profile: Jan van Toorn was produced by Submarine, Femke Wolting & Bruno Felix (via Jan van Toorn: OBlog: Design…

  • Carson Chan in Denver. Photograph: Anthony Camera. (via Front Page)“>Rhizome | Post-internet Curating, Denver Style: An Interview with Carson Chan) KAREN ARCHEY: Draft Urbanism seems to be more inclusive and unique than your average biennial. Could you describe the curatorial purview and physical format of the biennial, and explain how it is a departure from…