Over the Transom
A collection of follow-ups and links to stories and developments that I found interesting or important in the past week, that I think you’ll find worth reading about too. Open…
The Open Source Museum
Picking up on the open source theme of my recent post on the upcoming release of the Raspberry Pi computer project, I'd like to expand a bit on the important…
The Best of the Week
A collection of follow-ups and links to stories and developments that I found interesting or important in the past week, that I think you'll find worth reading about too. Another…
Raspberry Pi
There's been a lot of interest in the Museum community about the possibilities of open-source electronics hardware in the development of interactives and demos to support education and exhibits. The…
The Schedule is the Problem
When signing on for a project, no matter what kind, a key resource is always time, as expressed through a schedule. Anybody who has even a little control over what…
Are You Listening?
If you're a designer, you're a problem solver. You have to be, that's what designers do all day -- solve problems. Designers generally have a good ability to take the…
What’s Next?
It was gratifying to see a user experience/interface horror that I had complained about in this space less than a month ago, solved in a highly elegant way by a…
Memorable Complexity
I've written before about the difficulty of distilling complex concepts into something simple. It's a huge design challenge that can pay rich dividends in improved user/visitor experience, and often, it's…