Adam Burk sur Twitter : "@AndrewAKessler @CityPortland and then there are signs like these. Can you spot the difference? #civic #design. ?utm_content=buffer5257a&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter. Joi Ito was named director of the famous MIT Media Lab in 2011. He was not your run of the mill choice. Largely self-taught computer scientist. Former chairman of Creative Commons and a strong open source advocate. Disc jockey, nightclub entrepreneur, tech investor (Kickstarter and Twitter are among the deals he took part in). Two-time college dropout (although he participated in the first course for college credit online offered by the New School in 1987—and later got an honorary degree from that institution). He’s even a godson of Timothy Leary.
In short, it is hard to sum him up. I recently had a chance to sit down with Ito for a short, but wide-ranging conversation that looked at what he has tried to do so far during his tenure—as well as his plans for the future. Here is an edited transcript of our conversation. Xconomy: It will be four years this fall, officially, that you have been director of the Media Lab. X: Maybe we can talk about some of those things. Enjoy this? The Author. Stanford's Most Popular Class Isn't Computer Science--It's Something Much More Important. Want A Crash Course In Stanford’s Design Thinking? Here it is for free (Pt. 1 Empathy) | Joey Aquino.
The Institute of Design (D.School) at Stanford has become one of the most talked about institutions recently because of the methodology they are spreading around the world to improve our lives through a collaborative approach that inspires human centered innovations. Last week I had the absolute privilege of being a part of the Design Thinking Hawaii boot camp which was focused on improving the education system in Hawai’i.
I spent an entire week submersed in this methodology but most importantly put it to practice when coaching a team of educators through a 3 day design challenge. The Design Thinking process is broken up into a 5 step ITERATIVE (not linear) process. In this first crash course post, I will discuss the “Empathize” step. What is empathy? To feel what someone else feels. The objective: To help people articulate the latent needs users may not even know they have. The 3 ways to empathize Immerse: Become the user and actually live their experiences. Observation technique: – Listen.
The One Relationship Your Organization Needs For Success — BIF Speak. Adam Burk sur Twitter : "This was meant as an example of what not to do, right @EdwardTufte ? #design #fail... Designing Around Deficiency — IDEO Stories. Experience would eventually temper my hyperactive ambitions and, in time, I rather instinctively settled into the disciplines that would become my craft; those now referred to as User Experience Design, Visual & User Interface Design, Front-End Development and Creative Coding + Data Visualization.
Shedding excess aspirations would free up all the time needed, I imagined, for me to gain a comprehensive expertise in these, the arenas I had become so enamored of. And, while I am, today, more than happy with the knowledge and capability afforded me via years of experience, a few skills haven’t fallen into place along the way, as I once imagined they so naturally would. With this in mind, I would like to outline a few of the things I totally suck at, and the techniques I employ to circumvent these deficiencies. 1. Color Theory As a designer, it wasn’t long into my career before I realized this to be an obvious issue for which resolution was required. 2. 3. Watch WIRED by Design | Radical Ideas for Reinventing College, From Stanford's D.School | WIRED Video | CNE. Welcome to Forbes.
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