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Today on the Knight Lab site: Richelle "Rich" Gordon wraps up our series with six reasons news media need to take product thinking seriously knightlab.northwestern.edu/2020/11/23/pro…

Fantastic collection of historical computing videos, via the Computer History Museum: bit.ly/3rmNYBP Especially liked: * UCLA Differential Analyzer bit.ly/2MSU8e3 * Antikythera bit.ly/3jkDjVm * Will Wright / Possibility Spaces: bit.ly/3pPk2hf

Congrats to Gregg Bernstein on his new book Research Practice (where I’m honored to have a small cameo). Looking forward to digging in!

Digging this exhibit of long-lost poster art for Hunter S. Thompson’s 1970 “Freak Power” campaign for sheriff of Aspen, CO - via The New York Times nytimes.com/2021/03/04/art…

Last week I helped to launch the United Nations Development Programme UN Development’s annual innovation event #IID2021, using an #ExperientialFutures process and format created for the occasion. 🧵

I wrote an Op-Ed for The Guardian highlighting a few ideas from my new book, Meaningful Stuff: Design that Lasts ⁦The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social⁩ mitpress.mit.edu/books/meaningf… #design #circulareconomy #systemschange #materials #obsolescence #waste theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Applications now open for our PhD in Transition Design at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Design. Join our community of brilliant PhD Researchers leveraging design as a tool for positive change in the world.   #phd #transiti…lnkd.in/gR6DJvA9 lnkd.in/eHWvqPn

Thoroughly enjoyed this piece by Mike Kuniavsky on the future of computational design, and the challenges of moving beyond the Modernist mindset that undergirds so much of contemporary design practice. link.medium.com/TonAlQzsEnb

All doctored up. Big thanks to my committee Jonathan Chapman molly wright steenson, ph.d. Stuart Candy for guiding me on this journey, and congrats to fellow CMU School of Design PhDs @sboschg Chun Zheng and Hajira Qazi.

Enjoyed the chance to nerd out on library history with WNYC's Molly Rosen for this piece on Alexandria and the dream of the universal library. wnycstudios.org/story/enduring…

Many IxD practitioners feel that the horizons of digital design work are shrinking, feeling disillusioned, burned out, and helpless. Join Alex Wright in his talk about Regenerative UX, and how it can incorporate sustainable, long-term perspectives in our work. #IxD23

Feeling the FOMO for Interaction 23 in Zurich this week, but grateful to the organizers for giving my virtual self a chance to share an overview of my doctoral research on Friday. Here's a preview of some of what I'm planning to talk about: link.medium.com/n5pBfhUPOxb #interaction23

Reflections on UX practice, “inner capitalism,” and the problem of professional ennui link.medium.com/5sQiWuNiCzb

Today's "information explosion" may seem like a modern phenomenon, but we are not the first generation—or even the first species—to wrestle with the problem of #InformationOverload. INFORMATICA by Alex Wright is available now: ow.ly/akYu50OE3OY

The 1970s librarians who revolutionised the challenge of search bit.ly/43odgCX

Getting our march on.