Information Tyrannosaur

My new favorite spot in Burlington is Maglianero. It’s an industrial, bike centered coffeeshop (and it has a small skatepark inside). I have been thinking about student feedback and user-centered design a lot recently and the feedback cards that this place had struck me as being well designed. On the cards they ask 5 simple [...]

Two weeks ago I attended an event for the kickoff of the Native Creative Consortium of Vermont. They brought in Nathan Shedroff, a pioneer in Experience Design. His talk was fascinating. He talked about how everything is an experience and that companies and organizations, whether consciously or not, are creating certain types of experiences for [...]

I recently heard a presentation at ALA Annual about innovation in an age of limits. In the presentation one of the presenters discussed the citation tool EasyBib and how it was created by high school students. This got me interested in how different organizations go about creating solutions for the same problem. Compare the two [...]