May 1, 2009
this week’s eye candy
UX visualization: the customer Life-Cycle
- the user life cycle. the user is your customer
<3 Adobe
I could learn software by osmosis, in my sleep
Swine flu
- Smithers, I think i’ll be donating that $1mil to the children’s hospital.. when pigs fly
click here for BLDGBLOG’s more serious take on the pandemic
Eeerie style
- tom hines photography
Last week, I debated whether I should buy the book “Design is the Problem” by Nathan Shedroff. Yesterday I decided to buy it.
Here’s an image from the book
- the sustainability helix
April 28, 2009
Your Words Matter: an investigation of linguistic framing (part one)
I’ve alluded to framing in two previous posts:
- The Mother Nature Network and their idea of the “Lazy Environmentalist”
- Eleanor Rosch’s contribution to conceptual categorization
Framing is a potent tool used by marketers, linguists, business strategists, and designers. What is it? A frame is simply the body of concepts, stories, scenarios and values related to a term, phrase or idea. Read the rest of this entry »
April 23, 2009
designing for sustainability: two books
Before I make more of a fool of myself by talking about sustainability and my role in saving the world, I should probably read some more. I’m starting with these two books: “Nudge” by Thaler and Sunstein, and “Design is The Problem” by Nathan Shedroff. I respect both works for their non-traditional approach to sustainability: “Nudge” begins with the problem of human psychology, DiTP with design principles. Which helps when you know little about environmental science. Read the rest of this entry »
April 21, 2009
mentors around us
What figure does the term mentor bring to mind? Albert Eisteinn? Alfred Hitchcock? Yve Saint Laurent? Michael Jordan? Mentor figures are those that inspire us, and for inspiration we often look towards the lofty heavens.
But our mentors don’t have to be away in dream-land. Read the rest of this entry »
April 17, 2009
environmental laziness
They’ve got a section on the Mother Nature Network called The Lazy Environmentalist. I haven’t even read a piece of content, but I’m turned off already.
I get their point: we’ve got to make tiny changes in our lives to improve the environment. But laziness is the worst sounding description of green efforts: laziness is throwing the trash on the street instead of in a waste receptacle, leaving the tv on while falling asleep, keeping the sink running to check the oven.
The headline is just a soundbyte, this blog post just a quick impression, but they touch upon the issue of motivating people to act responsibly, and how we should linguistically frame green efforts. Are we really trying to make people feel good about being lazy?
