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What use for usability?

Friday, March 1, 2002

Usability is on the lips of every interaction design these days, but while no one denies its benefits, its not all it's cracked up to be.

Dark-sky thinking

Thursday, October 16, 2003

If only the World Creative Forum's ideas matched the ambition of its title.

'Ethnography' exposed

Tuesday, December 30, 2003

Why do political and business leaders want to immerse themselves in our everyday lives?

Touchy-feely toasters

Thursday, April 22, 2004

A new book argues that products should be designed around their users' emotions.

Battle in Print: Shaping social policy: designers and health

Saturday, October 31, 2009

Is design’s intervention in healthcare a good thing, or will it ultimately make matters worse—especially for those in greatest need of a cure?

Disabling innovation

Thursday, September 16, 2004

Setting legal standards for making websites 'accessible' to all won't help web designers, or users.

‘It looks like Lisa Simpson giving head’

Thursday, June 7, 2007

The bizarre squashed swastika that is the London 2012 Olympics logo perfectly captures the authorities' confusion about what the Games are for.

Don't curb design enthusiasm

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

The desire for sustainability has been reinterpreted as accepting limits and narrowing choices rather than expanding how we live, work, play. This kind of make-do-with-what-we-have ethos cannot be good for design and society.

Comment: Design in denial

Thursday, November 1, 2007

For many people today ‘good’ design doesn’t appeal; instead it must be ‘worthy’. That’s a real problem. 

Tracing the history of Helvetica

Wednesday, November 28, 2007

A film about a font?! Yes, and it's gripping, too, showing how a sleek typeface has encouraged good design and helped to shape big ideas.

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