1 Year Old & Wanna Collaborate?

Posted in General on Feb 27th, 2008 Write a comment »

Break out the champagne. Today User Designer is 1 year old!
I’m happy with how the blog has developed over the first year. Though it took a while to settle into writing weekly. Two posts a week has become my regular rhythm. For the 2nd year my posting target will continue to be one post a […]

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Link Bucket: Design Thinking, Treating Childhood, Community Designed

Posted in Design, Fabricate, Link Bucket, Physical on Mar 8th, 2007 Write a comment »

Bill Cockayne’s talk (mp3) at Design 2.0 on enabling engineer designers to be big picture / future thinkers. Found via pasta and vinegar.
A very funny spoof paper discussing “The Etiology & Treatment of Childhood“. Found via Mind Hacks.
ThinkCycle: Open Collaborative Design is a small follow up related to yesterdays post about Personal Fabrication. Its a […]

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How To Make (almost) Anything

Posted in Fabricate, Physical on Mar 7th, 2007 Write a comment »

Have a listen to the talk Neil Gershenfeld from The Center for Bits and Atoms gave about Personal Fabrication (video, audio) at TED in 2006. If streaming media ain’t your thing there’s an old interview with him on The Edge.

You could also wander around the Fab Labs Out Reach website, which details efforts to […]

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