ribbonfarm – Sarah Perry – Nov 16, 12:17 PM

“Folk concept.” You may have never heard the phrase defined, or even used, but you probably already know what it means. Consider this list: Bayes’ rule Which two are folk concepts? If you were able to instantly see that luck and…

Terry Elliott Wow! Dredges up folk concepts, botany, and lots more into a rich soup that points to an even more interesting post here: https://samzdat.com/2017/08/28/the-uruk-machine/

It’s often said you can’t make something out of nothing. Cody Friesen may have come as close to succeeding as anyone. To show me his technological sleight of hand, Friesen invites me to a hillside house in Berkeley, California on a sunny afternoon.

Terry Elliott Water for nothing? Not quite, but the technologies being pulled in from adjacent universes, well…breathtaking.

There’s been some discussion around the internets about why tiny homes are not the same as recreational vehicles and trailers. But the line dividing them isn’t always all that clear, given there are some trailers that are so well-built that they…

Terry Elliott Exquisite. Relentlessly designed. Beautiful. Esp that bathroom.

I stumbled over these handy user experience maps this morning and thought about how useful they might be in my teaching, learning, and research. Empathy maps: designed to help folk understand the mind of the user. I could use this at the end of the…

Terry Elliott A few discoveries in applying user experience theory to university experience. It involves mapping. And while I know the map isn’t the territory, that doesn’t stop the map from being damned handy.

Designing and developing a product often involves a large team of people with different backgrounds and experiences who must be on the same page about the project goals, the user needs and behaviors, and even the component processes involved. This…

Terry Elliott Mapping. Here are some very cool maps to project onto your worlds. I know they reduce complexity and hence meaning, but they allow us ways in that we can eventually muddy up and messify with local knowledge, what James Scott calls ‘metis’.