This article by Alexander Dawson, posted on SixRevisions, suggests museum way-finding and interactivity as a strategy for thinking about web site design. Rather than bringing new technology into museums or expanding the museum out of it’s physical space, this article articulates how a...

Group: Nadya, Sean, Whitney As a group, our strongest themes were self (or user) identity, influencing user behavior, and managing information. These themes were evident in all of our essays, but the way at which we explained ourselves or situated these themes within the large format of the...

“Information pervades every aspect of the designed object” – Mike Kuniavsky As the possibilities and forms of information advance, the process of design must also adapt. Stepping back from the focus of an individual design major to consider the ideas of leaders in other fields is like...

Based on the diagram we worked on as a group in class, I added to and tried to clarify the differences and similarities between our readings. As I was working on this, it was my tendency to separate each reading but Nadya and Sean were both from the network technologies. I had to keep...

Beyond the concerns of beauty and form, design is about information. Breaking it down, digesting it, interpreting it, drawing new connections, and presenting it. Design’s goal is to be a platform for action. It is valuable for a designer to understand how individuals make decisions with...

Big Idea #1: Information cascades easily occur which is problematic because they prevent information aggregation. Goal: To make individual, private information available to the public. Value: To encourage aggregation of information of numerous individuals to benefit society as a...

This is my mapping so far with the added notecards I made from the primary sources. I didn’t write a lot of new notes, because most of the big points from the primary sources were ideas I had already noted. Most of the sources went deeper into the probability math or explaining the...

Networks, Crowds and Markets David Easley and Jon Kleinberg Easley and Kleinberg’s book is built upon the first two parts of graph theory and game theory. I chose a chapter titled Information Cascades from later in the book, so that I wouldn’t be seeing only one half of what they...