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The Web is Changing

The big point in this A List Apart post that I really find interesting and exciting is that web design is no longer just print design made digital. It’s become its own medium. Pages are becoming less...

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Turning Data in to Information

Response to Wurman reading. One thing that we all have to deal with, now more than ever, is the over-saturation of data. We can easily get immersed in it, without ever gaining any actual useful...

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“Design” vs. Design

I recently read an article on TechCrunch about user experience and what it takes to succeed in the competitive world of tailored/targeted apps. While the article specifically talks about the...

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Two Approaches to Social Design: Focused Advocacy & the Big Picture

Response to Good Citizenship and Design Thinking: A Useful Myth The  main points made in the two readings were very different. One leaned heavily to the belief in focused, perhaps even biased design....

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The Stuff of Growth

1: Makeup Tutorial I’ve learned that one’s appearance as a teenage girl in high school or college is very important. However, as a jaded mid-20-something-year-old who’s been in college entirely too...

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Social Dissent and Graphic Propaganda

One of the reasons why I love graphic design is because we have the ability to voice our opinions through our unique means of communicating. We are experts at representing a concept with something...

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The First Step is Giving a Shit, Then You Do the Hokey-Pokey

Design with Intent User-centered design is a method of designing for function and ease-of-use before anything else. The problem with this is that the designers involved are encouraged to not impose...

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Taking Visual Advocacy Into Your Own Hands

Sometimes to make a point, and to make it well, you have to literally make a mark on your environment. When traditional channels don’t fill the needs, you’ve got to take it into your own hands. There’s...

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Tangential Reflection

I seem to have gotten myself into a bit of a tangent. Like, a whole blog post’s worth. When I saw the line in Human Dignity & Human Rights that said, “I believe we all recognized the significant...

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Designing With the Environmental Impact in Mind

Cradle to Cradle made a good point about the origins and life cycles of materials and how we should take them into consideration when designing. One thing I took away from the reading—and I’m sure this...

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