Social Network Analysis

We invited the brilliant Elisa Bellotti from The Mitchell Centre in Manchester to talk to us about social network analysis. Their work is Continue reading →

Prototype in progress

For last week’s work in progress show, working with Shobhan Shah, I put together an interactive installation that was designed Continue reading →

Ethics and materials

I’ve been making a prototype this week for exhibition in a ‘work in progress’ exhibition and thinking about the moral Continue reading →

Designing with people

Design research is usually understood to be about developing some kind of new artefact. These artefacts can be objects like Continue reading →

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 →