A Fresh Look for the Data Science Initiative Website
Posted Feb 28, 2018
The Data Science Initiative (DSI) at Northwestern has just launched a brand new website today with the help of the IT...Tag: design
The Edward Tufte One Day Course
Posted Aug 29, 2016
Edward Tufte was in Chicago this past week, offering up his one-day course “Presenting Data and Information.” Edward Tufte is widely...
Luther and the West: Set Construction
Posted Aug 26, 2016
For the Luther MOOC, we did something we haven’t done for a MOOC before: we built a set! This set was...
Alex and Nick at the PPP Conference
Posted Aug 7, 2015
It’s been two jam-packed days of insightful design talks here at Columbia College Chicago. Alex Miner and I have been hanging...
NU Google-Mooc team en-route to NYC for Glass pickup
Posted Jun 19, 2013
We are deep into production with Northwestern University Medill Knight Professor Owen Youngman (on the left, above) on his Coursera MOOC...
Looking for a web design – UX job ?
Posted Mar 9, 2012
WEB Specialist | Designer UX | Northwestern University Information Technology Work in a dynamic development shop in one of...
MSLOC at the Catalyst Ranch
Posted Mar 21, 2011
“Leveraging Design Principles and Techniques to Facilitate Organizational Change” was the topic of the panel discussion at the eclectic Catalyst Ranch...
40,000 permutations for one logo
Posted Mar 12, 2011
MIT Media Lab Identity, 2011 from readyletsgo on Vimeo. I like it.
Michael Wesch | Mediated Culture Video
Posted Nov 2, 2010
Great talk by Michael Wesch from UX Week 2010. You may remember Michael from this. The talk is longish – 40...
Communicating on the Web: Applying Known Models to New Information
Posted Oct 25, 2010
I’ve seen this before, but it just fully hit me today – WordPress.org uses an interesting method of communicating information on...
Northwestern University Secondary Teacher Award Site Launches
Posted Oct 21, 2010
This morning all NU seniors were invited to submit a nomination for the Northwestern University Secondary Teachers Award (that’s high school...
404 Pages – Let the Computer Do the Talking
Posted Oct 20, 2010
In design and web development circles, the 404 page is an often discussed topic. From a designer/user experience point of view,...