“40 years of Design Research” is a short but very informative piece by Nigel Cross (currently president of the DRS-Design Research Society, professor at the Open University, author of many books and articles). Originally written as a 2006 conference address, it has been then published in the Design Research Quarterly (the DRS official publication), where I found it some months ago. I thought that this was very well suited for my Design Methodology module on “Philosophy of Design” at NABA Media Design, and I completed the Italian translation before Christmas. Nigel has kindly given his permission for using it in teaching; he also made me smile as he replied to my final thanks commenting “how much more elegant it seems in Italian!” ;)
Shared readings
- Biking directions added to Google Maps 10/03/2010 Phillip Torrone
- Skype for Symbian app now available in Store 10/03/2010 Niini
- A nice boost for rssCloud 10/03/2010 (author unknown)
- Andreessen's Advice To Old Media: "Burn The Boats" (Erick Schonfeld/TechCrunch) 07/03/2010 (author unknown)
- Pacatamente, ma anche severamente 07/03/2010 Sergio
- 137 years of Popular Science now available for browsing online 07/03/2010 Sean Michael Ragan
- Designs on delivery: Post Office posters from 1930 to 1960 | Art and design | guardian.co.uk 07/03/2010 brew
- Twitter Opens Up the Firehose to Startups 01/03/2010 Ben Parr
- Getting hospitalized should be like flying first-class 27/02/2010 (author unknown)
- Has Digg Found the Winning Formula for Ads? 25/02/2010 Jennifer Van Grove
- The Case for Handcrafted Social Media (Or Why You Should Stop Auto-Updating Your Feeds) 25/02/2010 Gina Trapani
- Dai fasti della new economy al declino la parabola di scaglia e dei "tlc boys" 24/02/2010 Stefano Quintarelli
- Rotten Corps: Biggest Cos Cause $2.2 Trillion in Environmental Damage Each Year 22/02/2010 Ariel Schwartz
- Mob4Hire Taking Off using a big crowd 20/02/2010 Judy Breck
- Octazen: What The Heck Did Facebook Just Buy Exactly, And Why? (Michael Arrington/TechCrunch) 20/02/2010 (author unknown)
- Just what role do conferences play nowadays? 20/02/2010 peterme
- Hollrr: Foursquare for Product Reviews 19/02/2010 Christina Warren
- What You Really Get From a Heuristic Evaluation 19/02/2010 Dana Chisnell
- 1.3 million phones found down back of the sofa in UK 19/02/2010 (author unknown)
- How Google Is Becoming a Startup Incubator (Clint Boulton/Google Watch) 18/02/2010 (author unknown)