Day One of Cooper's Interaction Design Practicum had many highlights. Some of the topics covered includes the following ideas, practices & tips: Design Is - Groundwork...

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Priming for Cooper's Interaction Design Practicum, I visited Less and More - The Design Ethos of Dieter Rams at SFMOMA. Dieter Rams is a German industrial designer whose body of work is...

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The cloud metaphor gives the cloud storage of our data a misleading somewhere-up-in-the-clouds, ethereal quality. Perhaps we could use a bit of grounding from the implied benevolence of cloud...

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Trust shapes the quality of our relationships in the market of jobs, gigs, and careers. Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. ~ William Shakespeare Jurgen Appelo's clever t-shirt test is one...

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Information is power. But power tends to corrupt whether in revered individuals or in authoritarian institutions. One need only reflect on the sordid history of the Papacy, or the recent...

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On the collaborative teams I have enjoyed working on, we quickly forget who the assigned leader is and often coalesce around a de facto leader. In Cisco and a Cautionary Tale about Teams Rosabeth...

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By dumb-luck and fortunate timing in the mid-80s, I scored an undergraduate fellowship from the University of Minnesota Civil & Mineral Engineering department to develop engineering applications...

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I get testy when the software community measures developers. Many software projects use Sprint Burn-Down charts (SBD charts) thinking they are measuring Velocity. My beef with SBD...

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