Historical Trails
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Historical Trails
show that user-experience design offers us a new lens for the study of spaces as designed objects, as well as illuminates the relationship between designed spaces and the behaviors that occur within them. The language of experience design opens an engaging framework for studying spaces in myriad contexts and evaluating the role digital technology p
... See moreJohn A. McArthur • Digital Proxemics: How Technology Shapes the Ways We Move (Digital Formations Book 110)
No matter what you're making, your users will find spaces between places. They bring their own context and channels with them, and they show you where you should go next. Find areas in flux and shine a light on them.
Abby Covert • How to Make Sense of Any Mess: Information Architecture for Everybody
I believe we also make maps because we are desperately, primally afraid of being lost. The tighter we cling to them the more we confuse them for something real. And when we do that, they stop showing us where to go and start leading us in ever-decreasing circles. If we can hold them lightly, however, they can open our perspective and contextualise ... See more
Alexander Beiner • Lost Ways of Knowing
