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Design will be the technology of the 21st century

» 03 January 2009 » In Reading notes » No Comments

That’s John Maeda’s belief. In his column at Esquire’s September issue, Maeda wrote a manifesto talking about the designers role in order to improve technologist view from gadgets and its features. Two excerpts I liked:

Technology is outpacing our ability to use it. And it’s the job of designers to restore balance to this equation.

Technological advances have always been driven more by a mind-set of “I can” than “I should,” and never more so than today.

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Interaction Design for Phisical Spaces

» 01 January 2009 » In Reading notes » 3 Comments

First write in 2009 and from now on I’ll try to write just in English :)

Reading old e-mail to clean-up my inbox, one from November 5th, 2008 was Adaptive Path’s newsletter. Leah Burley wrote about her experience into observing how architecture was related to user experience design. I’m trying to find the url of this article, but seems to be published only in the email :/

But the main point is about this expcerpt:

“interaction design for physical spaces — is not about helping people have interesting experiences with the space, but about helping people have interesting experience with other people because of the space”

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