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Making sense in the data economy
We perpetually interact with our technologies. On the one hand they serve us, and on the other hand they control us.1 Computers, smartphones, and the infrastructure surrounding them now mediate much of...
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Knowledge of cybernetics is increasingly relevant to both what and how designers design. Cybernetics is the science of feedback, information that travels from a system through its environment and back...
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The following is the introduction to Jorge Arango’s 2018 book Living in Information: Responsible Design for Digital Places Designing has roots in craft — in making “things,” in giving them form. And...
View ArticleCybernetics and Design: Conversations for Action
Design Cybernetics: Navigating the NewThomas Fisher and Christiane M. Herr, Editors, Springer This is an update (with changes) to an earlier version. Abstract Ranulph Glanville came to believe that...
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Gui Bonsiepe: Framing Design as Interface
Gui Bonsiepe has had a remarkable career — distinguished by its length (60 years and counting) and by its variety — a career that’s difficult to classify, because it has many dimensions and requires...
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Why we should stop describing design as “problem solving”
This article appears in Geoff Kaplan’s book“After the Bauhaus, Before the Internet: A History of Graphic Design Pedagogy,”published this fall by MIT Press.The book grew out of a conference at Yale in...
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COVIC: Collecting Visualizations of COVID-19 to Outline a Space of Possibilities
This article appears in Design Issues, Volume 38, Number 4, Autumn 2022 Collecting in the Time of Coronavirus The COVID-19 pandemic and its ill effects began in China in January 2020 and spread...
View ArticleUnimaginable Death: Visualizations of COVID-19 Pandemic Milestones
Paul Kahn, Hugh Dubberly, and Liuhuaying YangDecember 15, 2022 Abstract:From its emergence in 2019, millions of people have died from COVID.Representing milestones (1,000 deaths, 100,000 deaths, 1...
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Rethinking Design Education
By Meredith Davis and Hugh DubberlyPublished in She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation Volume 9, Issue 2, Summer 2023 Abstract This opening article for the special issue on the...
View ArticleHow Might We Help Designers Understand Systems?
By Hugh Dubberly and Paul PangaroPublished in She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation Volume 9, Issue 2, Summer 2023 Abstract The Future of Design Education working group on systems...
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