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It’s Nice That - 18th June 2009

It’s Nice That is a talented team of publishing inspiring work from across the creative sphere. They run a monthly talk, each event hosted by a guest speaker who brings two friends to showcase recent projects or thoughts.

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One reason why newspaper are headed for extinction

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Codifying design thinking threatens it’s central value of flexibility

Fred Collopy has published a post on Fast Company discussing the similiarities of the emerging design thinking discourse and that of systems thinking, a management-based holistic discourse with resonances in complexity theory.

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Health 2.0: Reformation, not revolution

A special report in The Economist likens the growing patient empowerment movement to the way the Reformation opened the Church to greater involvement in the 16th century.

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Disposable theory

Nick Marsh has posted a response to my post about the differences between questions and answers research.

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Is innovation nature or nurture?

As Microsoft give the BBC a tour around their Future Home, CNet’s Rupert Goodwins asks how such research contributes to Microsoft’s bottom line.

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Summer’s here

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If one thing matters, everything matters

The embrace of participant observation by the design community has provided a source of tension between the disciplines that traditionally engaged in it and the new disciplines adapting it to their uses.

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Letting users tell their own data stories

This talk by Jeff Veen maps out some of the key challenges facing designers creating interaces to complex data.

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Spectator stands on a beach in Tampere, Finland.

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g n v a is the online profile of Jaimes Nel. I’m a researcher, designer, photographer, etc.

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