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Listen to Debra Levin Gelman’s “Designing with Constraints” talk IA Summit 2010

Creating meaningful digital experiences is a complicated business. Fluctuating requirements, unexpected technical limitations, and stringent branding rules can make experience design feel like an exercise in compromise […]

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Listen to Kevin Wick’s “Going Interactive: How we stopped making static wireframes and started making prototypes” talk at IA Summit 2010

Looking for more effective ways to communicate your research and designs? Kevin Wick says one way to do that is to stop creating static, paper-based wireframes and to start creating browser-based, interactive prototypes […]

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Listen to Kate Rutter’s “See, Sort, Sketch: Pen & Paper Techniques for Getting From Research to Design” talk at IA Summit 2010

In this talk, Kate Rutter gives you a taste-test of methods and activities that leverage the power of pen and paper as open, participatory tools in the research analysis process […]

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Design Innovation Readings Software

Watch Tan Le’s “A headset that reads your brainwaves” demo at TED

Tan Le’s astonishing new computer interface reads its user’s brainwaves, making it possible to control virtual objects, and even physical electronics, with mere thoughts (and a little concentration). She demos the headset, and talks about its far-reaching applications […]

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Autodesk announces AutoCAD for Mac

Autodesk plans to bring its flagship AutoCAD design and engineering software to the Mac for the first time in nearly two decades […]

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China Information Technology Software Trend Watching

Intellectual Property: Use of illegal software continues to rise in China

The rate of global software piracy climbed to 43 percent in 2009, a two-percentage-point increase from 2008 fueled in large part by expanding PC sales in emerging markets […]

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Design Economics Trend Watching

Watch Ellen Dunham-Jones’ “Retrofitting suburbia” talk at TED

Ellen Dunham-Jones fires the starting shot for the next 50 years’ big sustainable design project: retrofitting suburbia. To come: Dying malls rehabilitated, dead “big box” stores re-inhabited, parking lots transformed into thriving wetlands […]

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Watch David McCandless’ “The beauty of data visualization” talk at TED

David McCandless turns complex data sets (like worldwide military spending, media buzz, Facebook status updates) into beautiful, simple diagrams that tease out unseen patterns and connections. Good design, he suggests, is the best way to navigate information glut — and it may just change the way we see the world […]

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China Information Technology Readings Software Trend Watching

This is a Public Service Announcement: Google may harm your computer!

I got this message the other day while browsing on my Google Reader Account […]

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China Innovation Trend Watching

China, Technology, Innovation and the Environment: China’s State Grid unveils ultra-high-voltage power line plans

State Grid Corp of China, China’s major power grid operator, plans to build a network of ultra-high-voltage (UHV) power transmission lines by 2020, linking major energy production bases with the nation’s power-guzzling regions […]