In summary: ONE YEAR DOWN: Year one of grad school is finished, and I can start to say I'm going into my second year of grad school with 9 courses complete and am starting to update my portfolio with some of the design work I've completed at school; Filming achievement ...
Tending to the gardens of technology
Doing a quick portfolio refresh and this should tell you about the madness of developing for Web in 2016. Once upon a time, you created a fav.ico file - the little browser icon - and that was it. Create the file, code it to create the .ico file format, and upload to your site. Now you need ...
Grad School is… what one would imagine it would be
It's been a sizable chunk of time since I've written something for fun, mostly because I've returned to school, where my writing is absolutely, unequivocally fun... but more restricted, more determined by requirements and time, and audience. Then again, perhaps that's the same as it ever was, since ...
Design driving cultural change
I had a chance to hear Andy Hagerman from the Design Gym speak about Designing for Cultural Change, and it was an engaging talk about the power of design consultancies to innovate to try and meet needs and adapt to what role design serves in social. A few notes from the talk: Creativity ...
The joy of a third space: How the concept of a community hub is evolving
I had a chance to chat about a friend's family member's new business the other day, and it made me think of the possibility of community hubs and how that can be shaped by service design - and in particular, designing services for multiple businesses in the same space, and how hubs have evolved. The ...