VentureBeat: If we can automate apathy, can we automate activism?
via VentureBeat It feels senseless to talk about the latest tech gadget or tech startup when we consider how the world has been rightfully ignited by instant exposure to recent tragic acts of violence on Black humanity. But when faced with the opportunity to speak to a tech audience, I find it hard to turn…
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What’s Brand?
I just don’t give a brand.—me “The brand is a story. But it’s a story about you, not about the brand.” —Seth Godin “Humans use brands to project who we want to be in the world, how we want people to perceive us, and how we want to communicate what we feel about ourselves and…
Wired: The future of work, collaboration, and experience
“With this shift to C-19, everyone realised suddenly we’re at home and so easily tracked. It’s unbelievable how all our transactions are now surveilled so easily. So the computational experiences that will come in two years from now, are going to be spookily good because they know so much about us.” https://youtu.be/kpxv6ehm7D4
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WSJ: How Tech Makes an Experience Out of Everything
By Nat Ives / Feb. 28, 2020 12:02 pm ET Everything Your privacy policy is like a new finish on your phone, Publicis Sapient Chief Experience Officer John Maeda saysWSJ 2020 The declining efficiency of traditional advertisements and new capabilities driven by technology and data have convinced many companies that their best shot at winning…
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August 2019 #CX Briefing
The difference between CX and design is useful to ponder because it helps to separate outcome from process.
S1 E4 of Aichaku Podcast / Craig Kanarick × John Maeda
Co-founder of Razorfish, Craig Kanarick, shares his thoughts about how the Web was and how it became. He also introduces us to his philosophy on hybrid designer/developers, his love for creativity as being more than defined in just one way, and he tells us how he started out with his first job out of college…
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Jonathan Foster | Microsoft Design: John Maeda on Writing in Design
via Microsoft Design No modern designer speaks to the power of language in design with a deeper understanding than John Maeda. And we would be smart to pay attention to his words. His career pedigree is stunning: tenured research professor at the MIT Media Laboratory, 16th President of the Rhode Island School of Design, former…
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April 2019 #DesignInTech Briefing
If you’d like to get my monthly #DesignInTech Briefing sign up here to get it in your inbox first. From the April #DesignInTech Briefing Four Things That I’m Thinking About Design In Tech * With the 2019 Design in Tech Report now out and available in short-form and long-form on YouTube, I’ve started collecting material for…
Design must make artificial intelligence less worrying
?This is the English translation of the French title of the article in Le Monde by Véronique Lorelle. « Le design doit rendre l’intelligence artificielle moins inquiétante » A la Cité du design de Saint-Etienne, une exposition est consacrée à l’œuvre de John Maeda, le pionnier du graphisme digital. (more…)
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Comments on Fast Company’s Design in Tech Report Press Coverage
I’ve learned a lot about how the press can turn a short telephone conversation into something sensationalistic, and slightly twist what I really said. But their business model requires getting attention — so I understand the WHY behind it all. What I didn’t expect was to find so many folks out there who rushed to…
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