Really Looking at Design

I recently heard of someone, Nathan Shedroff, who actually understands things and speaks about them well, a rarity in a world where most designers make up what they want to be true. The picture is one from his recent presentation at the Connecting 07 Conference. Please don't take my word for it and have a look at the whole presentation here and his homepage here.

Thanks to core77 for making me more aware.

Smooth Things and Good Information

Over this last weekend I have been to a number of quite good lectures from the RMIT GRC, graduate research conference. Apart from just being a good showcase of interesting work it also unveiled the reason and value of doing a PhD at some point and now I am even considering this a real possibility. For the time being I am interested in doing it some place where I do not speak the language and where I can get a scholarship. More on this later.

At the same time there is some interesting work here on interface design. I think this is a great example of what more projects should be like. Seeing many of the graduate projects I realised that most people do not know anything about presenting content well. I was saddened also to see that a number of the applicants, especially masters were at quite an elementary level of development of ideology. I am not sure if these people will be allowed to progress immediately and I hope that RMIT presses them to work harder in the future.

Because I was away watching presentations and working on projects a lot recently I have a huge number of reading built up in my Google reader. I am working though it and learning interesting things. Read my reblog if you want to see more on that.