What is design for?

I ran a seminar session this week based on Ken Friedman’s well known Design Studies article of 2003 – Theory Continue reading →

modules and parallels

As is often the way, two chance and offhand comments with colleagues have informed my latest thinking about browser history Continue reading →

Metaphor-ology

Much of what designers do involves generating and deploying metaphors. The way we make sense of the world around us Continue reading →

Future Vis

In Paris last Sunday for IEEEVIS, the main international gathering for academics working in the area of data visualisation. The field is dominated Continue reading →

Involving other people

I’ll be presenting at the PhD by Design conference this week at Goldsmiths. I’m in a strand called ‘How to Continue reading →

Bad infinity

The idea of an endless universe is profoundly disorienting because infinite things are confusing. It seems fair to say that Continue reading →

Browser behaviour

The internet is an oligopticon – a giant collecting machine, an idea that comes from Bruno Latour (of actor network Continue reading →

The External Mind

One of the main topics of my research is externalisation. By this I mean, how people put what they’re thinking Continue reading →