Category: words

  • Sketch-a-Move (by Superflux) as seen in Buxton’s Sketching User Experiences. (Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)

  • The Art of Staying Focused in a Distracting World

    The Art of Staying Focused in a Distracting World

  • decongestant let’s me breathe, won’t let me sleep

  • …you must choose whether your career will contribute a few Photoshops (widely-used tools), or a few dozen Sketchpads (influential demos) Twitter / worrydream: Say you must choose whether … (via emergentdigitalpractices)

  • CFP: Infrastructures of Creativity Conference

    CFP: Infrastructures of Creativity Conference by Beverly Tomek Infrastructures of Creativity: a conference on institutions and innovation in the 18th & 21st centuries April 10-11, 2014, Chicago The Benjamin Franklin Project at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), along with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of Wisconsin at Madison, invite you…

  • I want to thank anyone who spends part of their day creating…anybody who spends part of their day sharing their experience with us—I think this world would be unlivable without art and I thank you. Steve Soderbergh —THANK YOU TO THOSE OF YOU WHO SHARE YOUR WORK ON TUMBLR (via 7knotwind)

  • Learn to Search

    Learn to Search slide show by Joanne McNeil (@jomc) & Divya Manian to help tech conference organizers find qualified speakers who happen to be among the 50% of the overall population who are women. @learntosearch

  • I try to teach my students to balance such complexities. But many of the smartest and best have learned the Lexile model too well. They’ve long been rewarded for getting “the point” of language that makes “a parade of its complexity,” and they’ve not been shown that our capacity to manage ambiguity without reducing it…

  • lutsanguisargilla: delriovelezfelix: In the biography; Lupe Vélez: The Life and Career of Hollywood’s Mexican Spitfire, media professor Charles Ramirez Berg (author of Latino Images in Film) talks about Lupe’s role in the Spitfire series in which she played Carmelita, a stereotypical Latina who spoke in a heavily accented “Spanglish” that was peppered with malapropisms. ”Still”,…