Monday, January 27, 2014

Communicating research

I think we need to look into alternative forms of  communicating research...

Infographics
Infographic movies
Kick-starter research 
Exhibitions
Workshops
Pecha-kucha
more...





Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Trends in information visualization


* storytelling
* automated infographics
* news graphics
* accidental art
*emotive visualization
*ThumbsUpViz



http://eagereyes.org/blog/2014/the-state-of-information-visualization-2014

Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Come on girls, work on your design philosophy contribution!

The list below is stating the philosophers of design, or philosophers relevant to the philosophical study of design on Wikipedia:

Where are all the female thinkers?!!!

We all know that it is much more difficult to be female researcher, as the work done by men does not have to pass the same eye of a needle to be approved by other men and women. Considering that we do live in related but different realities, this means that there is a whole lot of perspectives that we are missing.

So, let's do someting about it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_design

Sunday, January 12, 2014

Inspiration from marginal practices...

.... that may be apprechiated by a wide audience.

Design reserach lab has a nice blog, where interaction designers take inspiration from people with disabilities.

Monday, January 6, 2014

Design in HCI and outside HCI

Is HCI solving problems for the real world or are we developing solutions that fit our field of interests more than it solves the real problem?

What do we include in our methods in HCI and what do we exclude? Do we know our own limitations? What do we miss by not fully being trained as designers?

A thougthful article about a design school...