Dan’s 2012 blog posts
Here’s an article by Tom Dair in Fast Company, discussing a project we worked on at Smart Design for Apple in 1989. It was not called an iPad then, that wouldn’t happen for another 11 years. Our 1989 project was conceptual, Apple was experimenting with the idea. We envisioned two different versions of a tablet computer,...Continue reading
The winners of the iF Awards for Design and Innovation at Computex Taipei 2012 were announced last week. Photos and descriptions of the winning products are on the artdesigncafé site. Congratulations to the winning entries, and thanks to the iF Branch Office Taiwan for inviting me to be on the jury. Here’s a video of interviews...Continue reading
Videos for the TEDxDrexelU conference have been posted on YouTube (my talk included.) TEDxDrexelU videos on YouTube I need to thank several people who assisted in my presentation. The super-nice slide guitar photos were used by permission of Randall Douglas. Randall is based in Minnesota – check his website for more nice photos – musicians,...
Here’s a link to Yang Yuhsiu’s documentary, Design&Thinking. Its third screening anywhere took place last Thursday at SVA in Manhattan. A discussion with Allan Chochinov, Bruce Nussbaum, Cameron Tonkinwise, Alice Twemlow and me, hosted by Paul Pangaro, followed.
Happy to be interviewed alongside ZZ Top’ s Billy Gibbons in an article by Michael Dregni in the September issue of Vintage Guitar magazine. The article discusses the early use of guitar effects – specifically, tremolo circuits and devices, which date back to the 1940s. I received the designation “historian” (apparently, for being able to supply...Continue reading
Agnete Enga and I will be running a workshop at the Design & Emotion conference in London. This year’s theme – Out of Control. The conference runs from September 11–14. The topic of our workshop: Relationship Counseling. Specifically, the workshop will delve into the topic of design and females, and how a brand relationship differs...Continue reading
An article I wrote for Fast Company, “One Fix For Health Care,” is now online (click here) – discussing pharmacies, design, drug compliance, and dope slaps. Thanks Belinda Lanks at Fast Company, and for help with the content, thanks Mark Jones and Tim Brown at IDEO, and Jeff Hirsch, Leah Waitekus and Josh Tsai for sharing...Continue reading
EMDT (European Medical Device Technology) published an article I wrote titled “The Future of Home Healthcare: Searching for Extreme Usability.” In it I discuss, among other things, how important it is to understand and design for individuals, not homogenized groups.
Next week IDSANY will be holding the second annual discussion on The Tangible: Dead or Alive. The event will be held at Farenheit 212 in NYC, Tuesday June 19 at 7:00 pm. I’ll be on the panel with Karim Rashid, Tom Igoe and LinYee Yuan. Here’s the announcement on the Core77 site.