Category Archives for Research

Contribution to ‘Product’ at the FADA Gallery.

I was invited to share the outcomes of my dissertation at the FADA Gallery exhibition: ‘Product’, in April 2022. The gallery is housed at the University of Johannesburg in the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture building. From the invitation: … Continue reading

23. August 2023 by admin
Categories: Community, Research | Tags: , , , | Comments Off on Contribution to ‘Product’ at the FADA Gallery.

2017 – 2021 (A Temperamental Journey)

Timeline 2017 – 2021 “A ‘temperamental journey’ was the phrase used…to describe those strange runaways and adventures prompted by arrogance, rebellion or despair” Hesse, Hermann.(1973) Autobiographical Writings. Jonathan Cape, London, pp. 52-53

15. September 2022 by admin
Categories: About, Research | Comments Off on 2017 – 2021 (A Temperamental Journey)

The Lost Information Architecture

Last year I was unable to complete the chapter I was meant to contribute to the collection Advances in Information Architecture: The Academics / Practitioners Roundtable 2014–2019 (published earlier this year). This was partly because I lacked the resources to … Continue reading

05. December 2021 by admin
Categories: Research | Comments Off on The Lost Information Architecture

Abundance by Design

Presentation for UX South Africa, on November 4th, 2020. Building upon a rethinking of complexity, a lack of appropriate design skills is identified as the primary limitation to ideating effective solutions in and for complexity. In this scenario, scarcity prevails. … Continue reading

20. October 2021 by admin
Categories: Community, Research | Comments Off on Abundance by Design

UX Landscape of South Africa

Last year, Dr. Marco Pretorius, Terence and myself embarked on researching and baselining the maturity of UX in South Africa. It was a huge effort but I think it turned out really well. As part of the project we created … Continue reading

23. April 2016 by admin
Categories: Research | Comments Off on UX Landscape of South Africa

Update: DEFSA 2015

This years DEFSA (Design Education Forum of South Africa) theme was ‘ethics and accountability in design’. We submitted two papers. The first, ‘Wicked Ethics‘ and the second ‘The Firma Model’. I think it went well and we definitely enjoyed it. … Continue reading

03. September 2015 by admin
Categories: Research | Comments Off on Update: DEFSA 2015

Update: Cumulus Milan 2015

Cumulus Milan 2015 was awesome. Our paper presentation of the Firma Model went down well (we thought) and we got some great feedback. But better still was the conference which contained great content, great people and was held in different … Continue reading

04. August 2015 by admin
Categories: Research | Comments Off on Update: Cumulus Milan 2015

UX Landscape (SA)

Our survey of the UX landscape in South Africa will be closing soon. We’re really excited to start analysing the data and produce our report and paper. The aim of the survey is to determine the current landscape and level of … Continue reading

29. March 2015 by admin
Categories: Research | Comments Off on UX Landscape (SA)

D3 translated into Japanese

My visual essay ‘The Design behind the design behind the design‘ has been translated into Japanese by Soyeon Lee. She is, quite simply, super-fantastic-amazing-brilliant!  

29. March 2015 by admin
Categories: Research | Comments Off on D3 translated into Japanese

Cumulus Milan 2015

Terence Fenn and I will be presenting our Firma Model paper at Cumulus in Milan between the 3rd and 5th of June. I’ll post here when the proceedings are published. http://cumulusmilan2015.org/  

29. March 2015 by admin
Categories: Research | Comments Off on Cumulus Milan 2015

← Older posts