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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
Simulation and Its Discontents by Sherry Turkle
Category: Reference | Series: Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life S.
Over the past twenty years, the technologies of simulation and visualization have changed our ways of looking at the world. In Simulation and Its Discontents, Sherry Turkle examines the now dominant medium of our working lives and finds that simulation has become its own sensibility. We hear it in Turkl ...Show more
THE PLENITUDE by GOLD RICH
Category: Culture | Series: Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life Ser.
Lessons from and for the creative professions of art, science, design, and engineering- how to live in and with the Plenitude, that dense, knotted ecology of human-made stuff that creates the need for more of itself.We live with a lot of stuff. The average kitchen, for example, is home to stuff galore, ...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 Storm of Creativity by Kyna Leski
Category: Culture | Series: Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life
Although each instance of creativity is singular and specific, Kyna Leski tells us, the creative process is universal. Artists, architects, poets, inventors, scientists, and others all navigate the same stages of the process in order to discover something that does not yet exist. All of us must work our ...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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