Dan’s 2017 blog posts
Following up on my speaker article in Premier Guitar magazine’s July 2017 issue is this August 2017 article explaining how guitar pickups work, Guitar Pickups 101. Pickups are based on the same basic principles as speakers – how coils of wire, placed in the vicinity of magnets, behave. The fundamental principles are 5th grade science...
Happy to conduct an evening seminar at Princeton University’s Keller Center, on design and innovation. The center is an entrepreneurial hub that provides space for startups being established by Princeton University’s faculty, students and alumni. The underlying theme of my talk – if we are going to innovate, how can we become comfortable with all the...Continue reading
For the July 2017 issue of Premier Guitar magazine I was asked to write an article explaining the basics of speaker design (All About Speakers.) Guitar amplifier speakers are quite different from those for audio amplifiers. Speakers intended for listening to recorded music are designed to produce an even response across a wide frequency spectrum....Continue reading
Jordan Jackson has been creating insightful podcasts on the topic of branding. I’m happy to have been asked to record one of them with him. It’s titled The Power Of Purpose, When Executed Through Promise. The discussion falls under Jordan’s theme for the series: “As new technology encroaches upon all aspects of our lives, and changes...Continue reading
I was honored to have been invited to give the closing keynote presentation at the Design Center of the Philippines’ First International Design Conference, focused on design thinking. It was a packed room of business leaders and designers (as far as I can tell around 300 people.) Natalia Bednarek opened the final session with “8...
I’m starting my third week of a 2-month appointment as”Visiting Professor” in the Industrial Design department at KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) in Daejeon, South Korea. Topics I’ll be covering over the 8-week course will include data visualization, quantitative methods in design research, statistics, basics of biomechanics, design and behavior, and design...Continue reading
Thanks Katelyn Bogucki and Cristina Quinn for including me in Gimlet Creative’s .future podcast series, sponsored by Microsoft. Along with my thoughts, the Design For All episode includes discussions on Inclusive Design in tech with Angela Glover Blackwell (Founder of PolicyLink,) Jenny Lay-Flurrie (Chief Accessibility officer at Microsoft,) Sean Marihugh (Escalation Engineer at Microsoft,) Crystal Jones (Escalation Engineer at...Continue reading