design that resonates

  • Space junk

    via: Fast Company I like the symmetry in this infographic. The balance of black, grey and white, open and closed circles, and the open-wide font. A touch of bold wouldn’t go a miss somewhere me thinks. Perhaps more than loving the image completely it reminds me of all the research I did for a joke…

  • It’s plane genius!

    via: Fast Company I want to fly on this plane. I also want the opportunity to identify other things that need a similar treatment: My car engine – what the hell is all that stuff in there? My laser printer – everything looks like a drawer that opens…except when I just want to change the…

  • Infographics – impression or realism

    A recent comment about the NY Times infographic got me thinking about why I like infographics and when I don’t. An infographic, I believe, is not about detail – it’s the sum of the parts that are on show. For datzis (data-nazis) – there’s always the source if it’s the minutiae you’re after. I believe…

  • NY Times Infographic of US Budget Spend

    Source: View the interactive version I love this piece of information design! On first glance I thought it was the same as Billion Pound-O-Gram by David McCandles which I like for it’s simplicity and everything in front of you, but i love the interactivity of the Obama Budget graphic. You can look at the whole…

  • Overheard on the train today, from an 8 year old

    First day back at school for our protagonist, and she was telling her big sister (age 10) what she’d learned today. After describing in various forms all the day’s activities, she ended by saying “It doesn’t sound like I learned much but it’s all learning really”. S’funny because at work there’s the ongoing debate about…

  • What is a service – pt 1 & 2

    First off, I subscribe to the definition of ‘service’ as the range of touchpoints a human interacts with, over time, in order to achieve their goal/fulfill their need. For ‘service design’ I broadly define it as the conscious process of crafting and planning the overall experience of the service (i.e. interactions and touchpoints), as well…

  • Design for Life – reality TV for designers

    I’ve always wondered about a reality-style show for designers. I pictured challenges of coming up with frameworks! and prototypes! and service concepts! in extreme periods of time! delivering new service experiences in airports! supermarkets! online! A combination of The Apprentice and Survivor. And now I’ve been watching exactly that with Design for Life with Phillipe…

  • Design is not a natural process (unless you’re a designer)

    Even though I’m immersed everyday in service design capability, at times I wonder if the techniques and way of thinking are just what every professional does naturally (i.e. determines intent, explores ideas and options, generates concepts, tests assumptions, evolves, prototypes, defines, repeat etc). So it was with surprise, fascination and some content that I witnessed…

  • Presentation (not .ppt) about Data Vis, Info Des, Info Graphic et al

    via Fast Company 5 minutes of your time for a relatively snappy and engaging view about the power of the visual by Alex Lundry. This is a perfect case for the designers job to understand, filter, translate so that users have the power for knowledge development in their hands (eyes and brains) to navigate through…