What is your default behaviur?

What you set a certain function as default, this is likely to increase a certain behaviour - for good or bad.  For example double page printing as a default setting have shown to support organisations to save lots of money. Induviduals may have money automatically transferred to a savingsaccount each month, supporting them to save as default.  Default setting are functions that makes a certain behaviour more likely.

Wikipedia writes about this as the default effect.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Default_effect_%28psychology%29

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...

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

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:

• Roland Barthes
• Jean Baudrillard
• Albert Borgmann
• Vilém Flusser
• Tony Fry
• Martin Heidegger
• Don Ihde
• Bruno Latour
• Karl Marx
• Marshal McLuhan
• Victor Papanek
• Bernard Stiegler
• Umberto Eco

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

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.

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...

Design knowledge as fast food?

There are may methods to inspire design and to critique design or any kind of project. A deck of card is one such materialization of knowledge.

Methodkit
http://www.methodkit.com/shop/methodkit-for-web-development/

Method cards for Ideo
http://www.ideo.com/work/method-cards/

Yep, a deck of card can be food for thought. But which kind of food for thought is it - slow or fast? Who is consuming it? And why?