2014s on Greg Walsh - Design Researcher

Saved: "Logical Fallacies"

Fri, 21 Nov 2014 15:58:03 +0000

Source: Logical Fallacies
A collection of logical fallacies from the Constitution Society. My favorite is Ignoratio elenchi.

Saved: "Energy House | The New Everyday"

Fri, 07 Nov 2014 10:54:56 +0000

Source: Energy House | The New Everyday
This is a chapter about the artifacts I created as part of my research into layered elaboration and the game it produced.

Star Wars Rebels, Disney World, and Extensions in UX

Wed, 29 Oct 2014 08:25:47 +0000

My kids and I have been watching a lot of Star Wars Rebels, a new show airing on DisneyXD. The stories are about the crew of a ship called the Ghost who appear to be the start of the Rebel Alliance (in Star Wars terms, the good guys). I just watched the episode Droids in Distress that had guest appearances by C3-P0 and R2-D2, the two droids that appear in every Star Wars movie. Although they are arguably the most popular robots from the series, another droid appearance, RX-24, in the episode made me yell out loud “No way!”.

Saved: "Working with Your Hands, Full-Scale: Hank Butitta's Bus-to-Tiny-House Conversion - Core77"

Mon, 27 Oct 2014 16:54:05 +0000

Source: Working with Your Hands, Full-Scale: Hank Butitta’s Bus-to-Tiny-House Conversion - Core77
This article covers a design student’s conversion of a bus to a “tiny” house. His thoughts on design school are as illuminating as his designs.

Saved: "Best Audio Recording on Your Smartphone"

Tue, 21 Oct 2014 19:51:18 +0000

Source: Best Audio Recording on Your Smartphone
DJ Young covers the (very) basics of smart phone voice recording.

Saved: "How To Capture High Quality Video on Your Mobile Phone | Idea Lab | PBS"

Tue, 21 Oct 2014 19:51:08 +0000

Source: How To Capture High Quality Video on Your Mobile Phone | Idea Lab | PBS
An article from PBS’s IdeaLab on recording good video with your smartphone. I remember carrying around a gigantic vhs shoulder camera in high school to record things…today, you only need a 5 inch smartphone.

My thoughts on "American Schools Are Training Kids for a World That Doesn't Exist | WIRED"

Fri, 17 Oct 2014 13:42:17 +0000

I’m a big proponent of hands on learning. This Wired article talks about how we need to train American kids to be better thinkers and problem solvers.

Against this arresting background, an exciting new kind of learning is taking place in America. Alternatively framed as maker classes, after-school innovation programs, and innovation prizes, these programs are frequently not framed as learning at all. Discovery environments are showing up as culture and entertainment, from online experiences to contemporary art installations and new kinds of culture labs. Perhaps inevitably, the process of discovery $ from our confrontation with challenging ambiguous data, through our imaginative responses, to our iterative and error-prone paths of data synthesis and resolution $ has turned into a focus of public fascination.

I think research programs like KidsteamUB can not only help make new “things” better, but can help child participants be better problem solvers. [zotpressInText item="{NG2FX2DS}"]

Saved "Walt Disney: The World's First UX Designer | UX Magazine"

Fri, 17 Oct 2014 12:15:23 +0000

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Homepage | Google Research

Wed, 15 Oct 2014 10:22:57 +0000

The main page for applying to the Google Faculty awards. I submitted ours last night.
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IMG_20141014_094705959_HDR.jpg

Tue, 14 Oct 2014 23:19:06 +0000

A lovely grove behind UB's Academic Center. It needs some tables.

See it here: http://flic.kr/p/oJnY72