Below are two quotes from The Facebook Effect (p 54). One thing that Mark Zuckerberg can attribute to much of Facebook’s success other than a well engineered product and a great idea is a clear vision. As I am learning from David Kirkpatrick’s book and my personal experience as an active Facebook user is the [...]
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August 31, 2010
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By Nina in Capstone, Design, HCId, Share
As I’m thinking more about news systems, news design and our social space this paragraph stood out to me. Bardzell, Bolter and Lowgren pretty quickly sum up why interaction design is important and why it is for people(s), not users. As digital artifacts move out of solitary, task-oriented use situations and into the public and [...]
August 10, 2010
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Is a journalism education still useful?
By Nina in Capstone, Design, HCId, Journalism, PoynterYes. Very useful. Carrie Hoover asked a group of grads “is a journalism-centric education is still useful in today’s job market?” for a piece she’s doing for the Society for News Design Denver Conference. Here’s what I wrote back, the bottom bit is the most interesting. I am grateful for every second of my journalism [...]
August 8, 2010
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Why is this news story important to my life?
By Nina in Capstone, Design, HCId, Journalism, ShareReading the news can be a real drag. It’s depressing, it’s dense and you wonder if your life or the world would be any different if you read yet another article about the BP oil spill. It’s tough to connect epic war sagas to my life of sitting in front of a computer and hanging [...]
July 31, 2010
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What surfing taught me about being a designer
By Nina in Design, HCId, TravelI’ve never gone surfing before. Swimming, snorkeling, kayaking and Slip ‘n Sliding–but never surfing. Welcome to California. With just a few weeks of my internship left at RockMelt, I’ve been thinking about what I learned this summer. A new friend took surfing near Pacifica to ride some waves. While tumbling around in the Ocean, I [...]