the Awesome Highlighter

here was a time when they were qualified to use software.   remove

the de-professionalization of computing tasks, and other developments, this no longer holds true.   remove

But wait a minute. What are we not seeing?   remove

With energy in short supply—or, put another way, when energy use impoverishes your planet—   remove

Designers identify relevant tensions, then find ways to resolve them. The tensions with which we play include those between space and the stuff that occupies it.   remove

Between stillness and motion.   remove

Between effectiveness and efficiency.   remove

Between thought and feeling.   remove

Between options and actions.   remove

Between certainty and doubt.   remove

Between power and pleasure.   remove

Between profit and sustainability   remove

how about bringing the bad news to executives when your research shows that the potential user population doesn’t want what’s being offered... before it gets built and shipped.   remove

why not ask ourselves, and those around us, whether what we are working on is worthy of the valuable attention, the creative activity, and the deadly carbon burned to make it, sell it, use it, and landfill it?   remove

Or come up with social networking solutions that simultaneously encourage collaboration, decrease real estate costs, and increase energy efficiency?   remove