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How to Speak Machine - Laws of Design for a Computational Age by John Maeda
Category: Business
John Maeda is one of the world's preeminent thinkers on technology and design, and in How to Speak Machine, he offers a set of simple laws that govern not only the computers of today, but the unimaginable machines of the future. Machines are already more powerful than we can comprehend, and getting more ...Show more
Importance of Small Decisions by Michael J. O`brien; R. Alexander Bentley; William A. Brock; John Maeda
Category: Personal Development
How people make decisions in an era of too much information and fake news. Humans originally evolved in a world of few choices. Prehistoric, preindustrial, and predigital eras required fewer decisions than today's all-access, always-on world of too much information. Economists have largely discarded th ...Show more
Mismatch - How Inclusion Shapes Design by Kat Holmes; John Maeda
Category: Art and Design | Series: Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life Ser.
How inclusive methods can build elegant design solutions that work for all.Sometimes designed objects reject their users: a computer mouse that doesn't work for left-handed people, for example, or a touchscreen payment system that only works for people who read English phrases, have 20/20 vision, and us ...Show more
Redesigning Leadership by John Maeda
Category: Business, Economics and Law | Series: Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life S.
When designer and computer scientist John Maeda was tapped to be president of the celebrated Rhode Island School of Design in 2008, he had to learn how to be a leader quickly. He had to transform himself from a tenured professor--with a love of argument for argument's sake and the freedom to experiment ...Show more
The Laws of Simplicity by John Maeda
Category: Science | Series: Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life Ser.
Ten laws of simplicity for business, technology, and design that teach us how to need less but get more.Finally, we are learning that simplicity equals sanity. We're rebelling against technology that's too complicated, DVD players with too many menus, and software accompanied by 75-megabyte "read me" ma ...Show more
The Laws of Simplicity - Design, Technology, Business, Life by John Maeda
Category: Business, Economics and Law
This title presents ten laws of simplicity for business, technology, and design that teach us how to need less but get more.Finally, we are learning that simplicity equals sanity. We're rebelling against technology that's too complicated, against DVD players with too many menus, and software accompanied ...Show more
The Storm of Creativity by Kyna Leski; John Maeda (Foreword by)
Category: Art and Design | Series: Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life Ser.
The stages of the creative process--from "unlearning" to beginning again--seen through examples from the practice of artists, architects, poets, inventors, scientists, and others. Although each instance of creativity is singular and specific, Kyna Leski tells us, the creative process is universal. Artis ...Show more
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