As president, CEO, and principal of MAYA Design, Mickey McManus leads a highly-skilled, interdisciplinary team that works at the intersection of complex, information-rich technology and human experience.
Mickey likes to think of himself as the chief mad scientist around here.
MAYA employs a talented roster of cognitive psychologists, ethnographers, computer scientists, mathematicians, visual and industrial designers, game designers, architects, and filmmakers. This visionary group collaborates to design products, services, and environments for people in a trillion-node world—a world whose scale and complexity will dwarf that of today’s Internet. Mickey and his team work with a wide range of clients—from Fortune 500 global companies to foundations, government organizations, and startups.
In 2005, Mickey spearheaded the launch of MAYA’s Pervasive Computing practice to help companies kick-start innovation around business challenges in a vastly connected world, where even now computing devices outnumber people. To explore this emerging value at the intersection of design, technology, and business, Mickey co-authored Trillions: Thriving in the Emerging Information Ecology (Wiley 2012). The book is a field guide to the future, where computing will cease to be confined to any particular “box,” but instead be freely accessible in the ambient environment.
Mickey holds a BFA in industrial design from the University of Illinois, with extended studies in communication design and mathematics. His work has been published in Bloomberg Businessweek, Fortune, Fast Company, the Wall Street Journal, and Harvard Business Review. Mickey is a frequent speaker on the topic of design, pervasive computing, and business innovation, most recently at the Aspen Ideas Festival, SXSW Interactive, Techonomy, the Blouin Creative Leadership Summit, the World Healthcare Innovation and Technology Congress, GridWeek, and AdWeek. Mickey has delivered two TEDx talks—one about design literacy and the other around pervasive computing—and has been a guest lecturer at Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Illinois, UCLA, UC Berkeley, MIT, and Princeton.
Before joining MAYA, Mick was co-founder and senior vice president of creative vision and strategy at élan communications, an integrated communications consultancy for clients that included Bristol Myers Squibb, MasterCard, Samsung, Nortel Networks, TiVO, and Janssen Pharmaceutica. At élan, he built the creative team that managed the concept, design, and production of the Samsung Electronics pavilion at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. The wireless telecommunications rendezvous became a destination for more than a million visitors and was listed as one of the top ten destinations during the games.
Mick’s design awards include a Consumer Electronics Innovation Award, two Addy Awards for advertising and video production, the AIGA Communications Show Judge’s Choice Award, SuperComm Best of Show in Design, and the Exhibitor Award for Best Conceptual Design. In 2010, MAYA Design was named by Entrepreneur as one of the Great Places to Work in the Small & Medium Workplaces category, in addition to prior recognition from Inc. as a Top 20 Exceptional Workplace and Fortune Small Business for family-friendly work policies.
Speaking Engagements
- Design Research Conference at IIT
- Event Date: October 2013
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MAYA’s Mickey McManus joins a distinguished group of professionals advancing the role of design research in innovation at IIT’s conference in Chicago.
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- Aspen Ideas Festival
- Event Date: June 2013
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MAYA CEO Mickey McManus joins designers at the Aspen Ideas Festival to talk about how great design can improve our world and our lives.
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- Making Stuff in the Connected Age
- Event Date: June 2013
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- Crossland Group Hosts MAYA Design
- Event Date: June 2013
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The Crossland Group is hosting an interactive, dynamic, and educational event featuring Mickey McManus, who will talk about pervasive computing and how the trillions of computer nodes in the world will ultimately be connected.
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- Beautiful Complexity
- Event Date: May 2013
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Mickey McManus will deliver the keynote address, “Beautiful Complexity: Design, Technology, and Industry in the Age of Trillions,” at the Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering in Long Beach, CA.
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- Government, Industry and Academia Meet at SUMMIT
- Event Date: May 2013
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Mickey McManus will deliver the keynote address at the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining’s annual SUMMIT event.
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- Made Media
- Event Date: April 2013
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Mickey McManus returns to the ad:tech Under the Influence Summit to talk about social media, technology, word of mouth at scale, the trillions of data nodes that are everyone’s future, and influencer marketing.
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- SXSW Interactive 2013
- Event Date: March 2013
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The web is over, it was a cute lab experiment, the sort of toy that Nature watches her children play with and laughs. Six billion mobile devices. Eight? Ten? Cute as a button. What will happen when we climb the next mountain? When instead of information being “in” computers; people, products, environments, and cultures begin to live “in” the information?
MAYA CEO Mickey McManus will present the panel Trillions: Thriving in the Emerging Information Ecology at the 2013 SXSW Interactive Festival in Austin.
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- Big Opportunities in Big Data
- Event Date: February 2013
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MAYA CEO Mickey McManus joins copanelists at Enterprise Forum Pittsburgh for a discussion of the opportunities in big data for business, technology and design.
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- Marketing in the Connected Age
- Event Date: January 2013
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What happens when every thing in your world—your laundry, your kitchen, your house—streams billions of bits of information from trillions of connections, communicating with each other and with you? MAYA CEO Mickey McManus delivers the keynote at the Mobile Marketing Association’s Forum, “The Mobile Connected Life,” in San Francisco.
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- There's No Business Without Digital Business
- Event Date: December 2012
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Mickey McManus will lead MBA students at the UCLA Anderson School of Management in a Trillions master class hosted by Professor Peter Guber, CEO of Mandalay Entertainment Group.
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- The Future of Making Stuff
- Event Date: November 2012
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Technology is disrupting the way we make things at all stages of fabrication and in all industries. More and more, consumers are dictating what they see and when they see it. Mickey McManus will join TechShop CEO Mark Hatch and others to talk about customization and the future of making stuff at Autodesk University in Las Vegas.
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- Techonomy 2012: Digital Death and Living Forever
- Event Date: November 2012
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Thanks to technology, instant, usable, and reliable access to our memories and life experiences means living forever may not be science fiction much longer. Surrounded by a sea of information, how do we weave this “data” into something more than the sum of its parts? Mickey McManus and co-panelists will discuss “Immortality for Fun and Profit” at Techonomy Tucson.
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- Trillions Authors on Essential Pittsburgh
- Event Date: October 2012
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Pete Lucas and Mickey McManus will visit Essential Pittsburgh for a vibrant discussion about the future of computing live on the air at 12:00 on October 29th at WESA 90.5 FM, Pittsburgh’s NPR news station. Join the conversation!
- MAYA CEO to Speak at Princeton's Keller Center
- Event Date: October 2012
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Mickey McManus will visit Princeton University’s Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education to talk about Trillions on October 24th. Mickey will also be stopping by John Danner’s course, “Ventures to Address Global Challenges”
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- Mobile Marketing in the Age of Trillions
- Event Date: October 2012
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What will mobile mean for businesses in a world where there are at least a trillion embedded computers—where consumers actually live IN the information? Register for a webinar presented by Mickey McManus with the Mobile Marketing Association on October 17th for a discussion of the rise of “T-Commerce” and its potential impact on mobile marketers.
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- Taming Complexity at GridWeek
- Event Date: October 2012
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In the age of Trillions, utilities and policy-makers will have to think beyond the smart grid to a system whose enormity we’re just starting to contemplate. Mickey McManus will explore the ramifications of a trillion node network as the keynote at Gridweek 2012’s Taming Complexity general session.
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- Talking Trillions at AdWeek
- Event Date: October 2012
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What does digital word-of-mouth marketing look like in a massively connected world, where your laundry talks to your washing machine and can influence point of purchase decision-making? Mickey McManus will sit down for an interview with Christine Osekoski, publisher of Fast Company, at AdWeek’s inaugural Under the Influence Summit in New York on October 1, 2012 to talk Trillions.
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- 2012 Blouin Creative Leadership Summit
- Event Date: September 2012
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Mickey McManus will speak at the 2012 Blouin Creative Leadership Summit in New York, September 20-21, 2012. The Blouin Summit is an annual think-tank forum organized by the Louise Blouin Foundation in strategic partnership with the United Nations Office for Partnerships.
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- Vision Monday 2012 Global Leadership Summit
- Event Date: March 2012
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Mickey McManus, MAYA’s CEO, will talk about the “disruptors” in health care delivery
for providers and health care companies and the impact of an empowered patient at the Global Leadership Summit, which is geared to senior-level executives in the retail, professional, lab and supplier sectors of the optical industry. - More Information
- 2011 Blouin Creative Leadership Summit
- Event Date: September 2011
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Mickey McManus emphasized the importance of teaching design at a young age when he was a panelist at the Art & Design: Being in the World session on September 19 in New York City. The panel discussed the role of education with respect to innovation and creativity. The Blouin Summit is an annual think-tank forum organized by the Louise Blouin Foundation in strategic partnership with the United Nations Office for Partnerships.
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- IDSA Western Pennsylvania Chapter
- Event Date: August 2011
- Ideas Economy - Information: Making Sense of the Deluge
- Event Date: June 2011
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Mickey McManus delivered a “flash of genius” session at this Economist event, which took place in Santa Clara, California.
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- Connectivity Week 2011
- Event Date: May 2011
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Mickey McManus was a keynote speaker at the Connectivity Week 2011 conference “Smart Grid, Beyond the Grid,” in Santa Clara, CA. Mickey talked about what we can do with the deluge of information coming from machines and the need for managing complexity.
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- TEDxCMU
- Event Date: April 2011
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Mickey McManus was a presenter at this event.
“TEDxCMU is a conference at Carnegie Mellon University that brings together some of the world’s most bold and innovative thinkers to give the talk of their lives.”
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- The Rotman School
- Event Date: March 2011
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Mickey McManus participated in the Rotman School’s Design Thinking Experts Speaker Series. The topic of his session was “How Design Thinking Can Drive Innovation.” His talk was open to the public and attended by the Toronto business community, in addition to Rotman’s MBA students and faculty.
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- Canadian Task Force on Payments System
- Event Date: November 2010
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Mickey McManus gave a roundtable presentation to leaders of industry, including those from major Canadian banks and other financial institutions. He challenged assumptions, emphasizing the importance of designing for a satisfying user experience. The Task Force was appointed by the Minister of Finance of Canada to make recommendations on the future of the Canadian payments system in light of technological and other changes. The final report, Moving Canada into the Digital Age, is available on-line.
- AIGA and AIA: Pecha Kucha Night
- Event Date: October 2010
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Mickey McManus joined a worldwide celebration for designers when he presented at Pecha Kucha Night Pittsburgh at The Grey Box Theatre. Pecha Kucha Night happens each year in hundreds of cities, where young designers network and presenters share their stories, collections, products, and/or work—in 6 minutes and 40 seconds.
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- Cusp Conference 2010 - "The Design of Everything"
- Event Date: September 2010
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Mickey McManus was a presenter at the Cusp Conference held at the Museum of Contemporary Art Theater in Chicago, September 22-23. The conference provides a broad framework for discussion about a wide range of ideas and topics related to “the design of everything.” Mickey talked about biomimicry and its role in taming the complexity of the trillion node world.
- Keynote: Aspen Ideas Festival
- Event Date: July 2010
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Mickey McManus was a keynote speaker at the 2010 Aspen Ideas Festival. The Festival is a conversation-packed exploration of some of the most important ideas and pressing issues the world faces. Presented by the Aspen Institute and The Atlantic magazine, the Festival strives to highlight the ideas of a diverse group of experts at the forefront of their fields and of leaders whose actions are changing the world.
- Conference Board Future of Business Roundtable
- Event Date: May 2010
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Mickey McManus participated in “The Pressure to Innovate” panel on May 19, 2010 at the Conference Board Conference Center in New York City.
- Economist Summit - Innovation: Fresh Thinking for the Idea Economy
- Event Date: March 2010
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Mickey McManus participated in this exciting inaugural event for senior-level executives on March 24 at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. He spoke on a panel called “The Hybrid Problem Solver,” which focused on design thinking and beyond. In addition, Mickey designed and led incubator/problem-solving sessions where teams develop new solutions to current problems.
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- World Healthcare Innovation and Technology Congress
- Event Date: November 2009
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On November 9 , Mickey McManus co-presented “Complexity and Functionality vs. Usability and Usefulness: Are We Seeing a Hobson’s Choice in Healthcare?” at WHIT’s Consumer Connectivity Summit. His co-presenter was Jay Srini, Chief Innovation Officer, Information Services Division of UPMC (University of Pittsburgh Medical Center).
- Designmatters Lecture: University of Illinois Urbana-Champagne
- Event Date: October 2009
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Designmatters is dedicated to exploring the intersection between design, technology and business, with the view that achieving synergy between those three components is essential for success in designing products, services and experiences and for the creation of successful business developments.
Mickey McManus talked about how MAYA Design tames the complexity of powerful technology to make people feel super human.
- RSA Conference 2009
- Event Date: April 2009
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Mickey McManus presented “Team-based Innovation” at the RSA Innovation Sandbox at RSA Conference 2009 in San Francisco. The Sandbox is a half-day event focused on the future of innovation security.
- Keynote, Economist CIO Forum
- Event Date: March 2009
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Mickey McManus was a keynote speaker at the Economist CIO Forum in New York City. He spoke to an elite group of chief information officers and senior IT leaders about how the computing establishment is about to face a monumental “innovator’s dilemma,” but few people even realize it.
- Tepper School of Business
- Event Date: February 2009
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On February 5, Mickey McManus gave a presentation at the Business and Technology Club at the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University. Mick’s talk focused on “Applying Design Thinking to Business Challenges,” especially when complexity is growing at exponential rates, and business leaders at major companies are grappling with the challenge of innovation in products, services, and processes in a world headed towards a trillion connected devices.
- Professional Convention Management Association (PCMA) Annual Meeting
- Event Date: January 2009
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Mick presented how to “Transform Your Show by Understanding the Human Dimension.” Informed by MAYA’s firsthand research with the “invisible” exhibitor and the “invisible” attendee, he revealed what truly matters to each, and how it could affect the future of a trade show.
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- Expo! Expo! IAEE Annual Meeting & Exhibition
- Event Date: December 2008
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Mick participated in a panel discussion entitled “Exhibitors and Attendees in Their Natural Habitat: Tools and Metrics for Analyzing Showsite Behavior to Improve Your Show.”
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- Healthcare Design '08 - Keynote
- Event Date: November 2008
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HEALTHCARE DESIGN 08 is the premier conference devoted to how the design of responsibly built environments directly impacts the safety, operation, clinical outcomes, and financial success of healthcare facilities now and into the future. Mick discussed the power of true Human-Centered Design as practiced in a deeply collaborative environment.
- Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh
- Event Date: November 2008
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Mick spoke to business school students about how the key principles of design thinking can be applied to business challenges, and how MAYA is using them not only to create more satisfying user experiences but also to drive change in traditional, product-centered organizations.
- The Invisible Exhibitor
- Event Date: June 2008
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MAYA CEO Mickey McManus released two new research papers about Human-Centered Design within the Exhibition Industry at ECEF 2008. This research was co-sponsored by The ExpoGroup.
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- cityLIVE! The Essence of Leadership
- Event Date: April 2008
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There are many kinds of leaders from all walks of life, but how does one define the qualities they all share? What inspires, what drives, what challenges someone, anyone, to become a leader?
- CDC Health Marketing 2007
- Event Date: August 2007
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At this Centers for Disease Control conference, MAYA CEO Mickey McManus presented a white paper about team strategies for facilitating innovation sessions.
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- Exhibition and Convention Executives Forum (ECEF)
- Event Date: May 2007
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MAYA CEO Mickey McManus gave the keynote presentation about market risks and opportunities that have arisen from a convergence of disruptive technology and the need for user centered design
- Telematics Europe 2006
- Event Date: September 2006
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In Berlin, Germany, Mick McManus joins Hakan Kostepen of Panasonic Automotive Systems America in a panel discussion on the topic of “creating consumer value for back-seat entertainment.”
- Connections Conference
- Event Date: May 2006
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Mick McManus spoke about MAYA’s Pervasive Computing Practice at this conference about the integration of digital technology in everyday life.
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- United States IPv6 Summit at the 2006 CES
- Event Date: January 2006
- Mickey McManus participated on a panel discussion by talking about the new generation of home-networked digital devices in the context of pervasive computing and usability.
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- M2M Expo
- Event Date: November 2005
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Mickey McManus was an invited presenter for two sessions at the M2M Europe Expo in Amsterdam.
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- M2M Expo
- Event Date: March 2005
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Mickey McManus joined Russ Sabo, a client partner from Eaton, in Dallas, Texas to present our project as an example of human-centered design and rapid product realization in the context of machine-to-machine communication.
- M2M Europe 2004: Brussels, Belgium
- Event Date: October 2004
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Mick McManus spoke to an international audience about aiming for human-oriented experience design when designing products at the forward edge of machine-to-machine (M2M) flows of information.
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- Carnegie Mellon University Visualization Colloquium: Pittsburgh, PA
- Event Date: April 2002
- Carnegie Mellon University Masters of E-commerce Colloquium: Pittsburgh, PA
- Event Date: January 2002
Writings
- The Internet of Things, isn't about things.
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The words “Internet of Things” barely scratch the surface of the opportunities, and challenges, ahead.
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- Friday Links 07-20-2012
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Summer reading, reverse innovation, archangels and hunchbacks, Alef, Existence, Gotham’s villains, flipdot madness, something to do at the Olympics, and the Department of Hopeland Security.
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- Friday Links 04-20-2012
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Gateway 4, Trillions, truthiness, the company of the dead, thinking fast and slow, TNT freaks people out, the greatest lecture on creativity ever given, and a beautiful and fluid dance.
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- Friday Links 03-30-2012
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Angelmaker, the Rook, the Orphan Master’s son, SXSW and the reason why beauty is embarrassing, the VIP Pizza Button, seeing around corners, the emergence of swarm spam, and Jim Henson’s foray into computers.
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- Friday Links 01-06-2012
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Wild Abandon, Mayan predictions, the Empire States, a MAYAn best of list, a show about management consulting, the toaster, some algorithms, knowing but not understanding, DNA sequencing for garage biotech, and of course Spike Jonze and 3000 bits of felt.
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- Friday Links - 12-10-2011
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Grumpy blather, Audio Reality, best toys ever, MAYAn Action League!, projection mapping taken to a whole new level, turning air into plasma so you can see Obi-Wan, 138 years of Popular Science, and Ice Cube on Charles and Ray Eames.
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- Friday Links - 11-05-2011
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A night circus, a russian mobster, some pictures of Thailand, a murmuration of starlings, superconductivity on ice, living bridges, mall tigers, the theoretical stereolizer, Eames, Hugo, Ukuleles, monster supplies, and yes, something made of legos.
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- TEDTalk - Innovate:Education - The next literacy
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What if there were a basic literacy beyond reading, writing, and arithmetic that we missed, or that wasn’t necessary until this moment in our history? And what if that new literacy were the organizing principle between STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) and SEL (social, emotional learning)? What if it could help the least among us leapfrog over the mainstream? What if it could help build collaborative, resilient, creative, & critical thinkers in an age of exponential change?
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- Friday Links - 06-03-2011
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Innovate:Education, Embassytown and the Rise of the Iron Moon, Solo, virtuosity, the basic rules of makers, pendulum paradox, disposable digital paper, and how our hands help us solve problems.
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- Friday Links - 4-29-2011
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Funes Lives, TED, AR toys and tools, everyone’s cognitive toolkit, putpockets, video conferencing with a bit of brains, the trials of the superplexus, and soviet monuments of the future’s past.
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- Friday Links 04-01-2011
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Airstream, you steam, we all scream for ice cream!, TEDxCMU, the Information, AMUL, the story of glass, cheetah bot, Citroen for 2, 100 million ceramic sunflower seeds, Google Ideas, and Mario had a harder time than I thought.
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- Rock, Paper, Scissors - Part 1: Architecture
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A friend of mine seems to be obsessed with using the game of “Rock, Paper, Scissors” to settle just about any dispute that arises in our team meetings. Most people think “Rock, Paper, Scissors” is a simple game of chance. Everyone knows the rules; rock breaks scissors, paper covers rock, scissors cut paper. Since it seems random, most of us just decide to play a favorite; I usually play rock, as an opening gambit. Sure enough every once in a while I get lucky. I’ve noticed that most of the time though, my friend wins. I decided I wanted to find out why…
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- Friday Links - 12/31/2010
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Happy Holidays, Rube Goldberg, reading level search, personal fabricators, real heroes, the joy of stats, Mini Countryman, cold plasma, 360 degree Youtube, Sagmeister, and of course troll fighting 11 year old orthodox Jewish girl comics.
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- Friday Links - 11-19-2010
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Powers of ten (for design patterns), malignant beauty, sketching an interaction guide, digital clouds, Nike grid, the Gettysburg Address brought to life, random objects as controllers for gaming, apparently we can see the future, a hundred million 311 calls, Disney rap, a revisiting of a classic series of urban planning studies as visualizations, Kinect hacking, and Kanye West wonders why the caged bird sings.
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- Friday Links-10-30-2010
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Ian Banks, MAYAmake, you know more than you know you know, and where is rob?
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- Friday Links - 10/08/10
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Cusp2010, techshop, touch comes to town, puppet making by the master, and Justin Timberlake and Jimmy Fallon show why they (and the Roots) completely rock.
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- Friday Links - 09-04-2010
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Ford, Bucky, star wars, dark patterns, the Mongoliad, rules for radicals, hackerspaces, iPony, and the most unsung actor in Hollywood.
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- Friday Links - 08/13/10
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Cutting for stone, raising Chicago, duck knight, words, toast, and the problem with thinking too much.
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- Friday Links - 07-24-2010
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Aspen Ideas Festival, TEDGlobal, holograms, creativity, and edible brains.
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- Friday Links - 06-19-2010
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Fordlandia, under heaven, best small company to work for, slow motion disasters, rent a white guy, Al Franken explains the value of the constitution, best illusion of the year, and a real time world cup tracker.
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- Friday Links - 04-30-2010
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Facejobs, the quantified life, didgets and data platforms, thinking about tomorrow, zip files all the way down, the marshmallow challenge, and the show book of the world.
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- Friday Links - 04-16-10
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The Girl with the Tattoo, the iPad Challenge, Ed Catmull and the Hybrid Problem Solver, Panorama, robodog and rosie, heat vision and jack, will it blend, an impressive portfolio, and shaking your way to literacy.
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- Friday Links - 03-26-2010
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The Ideas Economy, have paper will prototype, a case for design literacy, Black Hills, the heatswell coffee cup, an indoor tornado, the arrow of time (teeth edition), Ms. Badu visits Dallas, insect bling, and data data everywhere.
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- Friday Links - 2-27-10
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Vice guide to a strange land, Ninendo plays with dimensions, Tom Waits sings a song, digesting the web, charting the Beatles, cat food, mothership, and a glass harp virtuoso.
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- Friday Links - 02-19-10
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Your man, massive attack, Pittsburgh winter sports, howtoons, the lady, and the reaper.
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- To iPad or not to iPad.
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First thoughts about Apple’s new iPad in the context of the future.
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- Friday Links - 01-30-10
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Our hero, how to report the news, soap box derby delight, a very personal annual report, the political power of visualizations, Lost is found, tape measure masters, and exit through the gift shop.
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- Friday Links - 01-15-10
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Rhiza Earth tours, TEDx, mini left overs, CES highlights, the lost supper, voiceband, and of course, Sneans (err, Jeakers?).
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- Festivus Links - 12-23-09
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Festivus, chrome, doppelgangers for sale, photo-collage sculptures, holiday-based computing, your brain on checkers, the Copenhagen wheel, and a taste of a London that never was.
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- Friday Links - 12-11-09
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Work is a game, zettabytes, art is a lie, living stories, the CO2 cube, LEGOS, Scott Kim, bioprinters, and an engine with a difference.
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- Friday Links - 11-20-09
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Free, makers, networked car driving Elmos, a few bright spots in the healthcare morass, trillions, idle human initiatives, autocaptioning, Tim Burton, and a magic wand.
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- Friday Links - 11-06-09
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A million miles, succeed once in a while, 99 red balloons, I miss Carl, how Facebook makes money, making healthcare better, beautiful newspapers could happen, and a simple idea for storytelling.
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- Friday Links - 10-30-09
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Chronic City, Petman, flowcharting the Beatles, failing to learn, the perils of having feet of clay, the quality of light.
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- Friday Links - 10-16-09
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A ship of gold, juliet naked, the meaning of night, caveman sci-fi, the theory of fun, Manhattan before all those pesky westerners, an amazing new (old) camera, a game for snoopers, and the botany of desire.
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- Friday Links - 10-02-09
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A few book reviews to clear off my shelf, a classic segment (from this week’s news) of the daily show, tools for the mind, memristors, the power of time off, and a different way to draw borders on a map.
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- Friday Links - 09-27-09
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Yes is more, random stats, tag, a little known band, a politician who can actually draw all the states from memory, a few nice moments, and a drill powered bike.
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- Friday Links - 09-04-09
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The angel’s game, the book of space, remixing youtube, T-Pain or not T-Pain, projectopong, spike gets his interview, I always knew something was going on at IKEA, USB eye warmers, and a house made of legos. Who could ask for anything more?
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- Friday Links - 08-28-09
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Staring at goats, tracking the amazing and positive growth of health and prosperity in the world (really, Jeesh, lighten up!), tasting light, a human interface, grilling brats on your phone, the design of EMR systems (or lack thereof), a sustainable city of umbrellas, blinky things, and spots before our eyes.
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- Friday Links - 08-14-09
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Short list this week, Bobby, Dean, George, Kanye, and Aldous.
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- Friday Links - 08-08-09
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TEDGlobal, Manahatta, BIG,trompe l’oeil… but with light instead, Mr. Fox, touchable holographics, Zeitoun, iPhone robots, and how people really spend their time.
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- Friday Links - 06/27/09
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Great documentary, patented shoes, living by the numbers, cooking with greenscreen, Low-poly fashion, the architecture of data farming, napping, and the Roots.
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- Friday Links - 06/12/09
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How to win a cosmic war, the CIO 100, pop-psych persuasion, the appeal of aged news, teaching kids to argue, doctors focusing on patients, a little black hole, Banksy is back, Zaha takes on Burnham, and a taste of Tomato.
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- Friday Links - 6-06-09
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Babies, learning design through reality TV, a new kind of controller, gestures, a better place, mapping the Internet by hand, the wisdom of the crowds in your head, asking nature, fun with liquid metals, google squared, a powerful story about human-centered design, and of course budgets are sexxy.
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- Friday Links - 05/29/09
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Rebranding USA, improve everywhere, an easy solution, avant gardeners, Guilloche patterns, and the swiss army camper of my dreams.
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- Friday Links - 05/22/09
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Alpha, Data.gov, Imogene, brands that will disappear, the selected works of T.S. Spivet, working with your hands, push-button house, ancient artifact graffiti, calling cards and playing cards.
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- Friday Links - 05/01/09
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Flutracker, information-centricity, a notebook, physics is the new black, the singularity, bendy things, and of course a slow motion piano crash.
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- Friday Links - 04/24/09
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The wrong cloud, deathcasting for dollars, is America still innovative, Luigi Colani’s fever dreams, hairhats, gorrilla specs, and the rise of silly motoring.
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- Friday Links - 03/27/09
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Junior MAYAn Action League, where the wild things are, this little light of mine, balloonimals (or fun with the microphone on your iPhone), smoking hot electric cars, skateboard friendly housing, hot dog octopi, and of course robots that spit fire.
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- Friday Links - 03/20/09
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A book about Dickens (ok sorta about Dickens), Dave Eggers co-writes a film, plants are good, I love motorcycles (though no I won’t drive one), holograms are bad, improv is everywhere, LEDs take the iPhone back in time, and a bit of fun with projectors.
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- Friday Links - 03/13/09
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Mr. Stewart mixes it up, where did the money go, 6th sense, wind power, and a wrist computer for people with very big arms, and very keen eyesight.
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- Friday Links - 03/06/09
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Who watches, how we decide, building a world, garbage bag monsters, robots and playbourers unite, and love will tear/keep us together/apart.
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- Friday Links - 02/20/09
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Light week in linkland… What happens when you take out keyframes, tinkering is good, abandoned luxuries, and the second lives of things.
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- Friday Links - 02/13/09
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Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about Information Architecture but were afraid to ask, a kid approved storymaker, jetpacks available now (sorta), who watches the watchmen, and really nothing at all to worry about.
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- What is Information Architecture?
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Two short films and a bit of a rant about Information Architecture.
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- Friday Links - 2/06/09
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Slow week in link land. How the world will end, UAVs for all, buttons ATMs Legos robots, a fire on the mountain, and dying towns.
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- Friday Links - 12/30/09
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Steeler baby, focused sound, chiabama, zooming is the new black, Rem Koolhaas comes to New York, and a nice clip about this generation.
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- Friday Links - 01/23/09
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A new day, some nice pictures of the inauguration, beating plowshares into swords, understanding comics, the new lunar rover, and how the day sounds.
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- Friday Links - 01/16/09
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How to make soda water, mind games, Burger King figures out a way to help you cull your “friends,” some strange maps, a little something musical, and a way to hack your brain without drugs.
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- Friday Links - 01/02/09
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Very light week in linkland. Core77’s best of the best, custom scooters, Zbig takes someone to school, digging into the wayback machine, self-balancing table, an art show in Miami, and a bit of Feynman.
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- Friday Links - 12/26/08
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The Invention of Hugo Cabret, the Harlem Children’s Zone, tunable glasses, scouting for cool locations, handmade fonts, music list for 2008, and something that clearly needs to be demodulated before appreciating it.
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- Friday Links - 12/20/08
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Books for the holidays, the Onion’s version of the Geobrowser, Caractacus Potts, the fabled “Z” dimension, a year full of ideas, the sweet smell of a Whopper, Brian Eno makes an iPhone app to help you sleep, and of course the Evil Dead musical.
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- Friday Links - 12/12/08
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The true cost of the twelve days of Christmas, 5 things that will change our lives, the problem with “Just in Time,” a true prince, radical knitting, brain pictures, and a flying nun chair… all while my ukulele gently weeps.
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- Friday Links - 12/05/08
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Two book reviews, a musical instrument made out of the pictures you draw as you draw them, Elvis’ new spectacles, a little sugar, a mystery man, and some beautiful hype.
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- Friday Links - 11/28/08
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Tutoring kids, white castles of joy, Bruce Lee, active video objects, diagrammatical excess, Lessig on Rose, and a story of rags to riches in Bollywood.
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- Friday Links - 11/21/08
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Why super capacitors are better than batteries for some things (if you can afford them), a dancing moustache, Jeff Han’s conspiracy, James T is a teenage rebel, the Coen brothers tell stories, Proust was a Neuroscientist, and that is not Milwaukee.
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- Friday Links - 11/14/08
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Minority reports, the muppets, your new girlfriend, new money, a book that shows you how to do everything, muybridge lives, Rod Serling we hardly new ye, and a collection of blackboard diagrams from mathematicians to musicians.
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- Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh
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Mick spoke to business school students about how the key principles of design thinking can be applied to business challenges, and how MAYA is using them not only to create more satisfying user experiences but also to drive change in traditional, product-centered organizations.
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- Friday Links - 10/24/08
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A short film on the electoral process, x-rays from scotch tape, the secret behind helping kids excel in life, how much time it takes to be really good at something, and 10 bucks worth of sharpies.
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- Friday Links - 10/17/08 (ish)
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Post-it cheat sheets, the remix economy, zapping zoom, boolean hyper-realism, bomb sniffing laundrymat, and a new way to sketch in 3-d.
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- Friday Links - 10/10/08
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A visit to one of my favorite streets (don’t be afraid of all the words, they like you), shared paper, the financial crisis as told to a 14 year old, an amazing home library, and yes, finally, a vending machine for men (err women).
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- Friday Links - 10/03/08
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Heavy week, light collection of links. Warren Buffett with some timely comments on the economy, architecture as special effect, a museum dashboard, a nice take away, and a quantum of solace.
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- Friday Links - 9/25/08
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Fun with magnets, stunning photographs of books, curious experiments in pay for performance, cat 5 compliant wedding rings, and an inside look at the future? of magazines (and every other surface the geeks can get their hands on).
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- Friday Links - 9/12/08
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Being a bird, alive, silly, human, and potentially ground beef. Plus don’t miss a new form of text entry and tips for collecting humans.
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- Friday Links - 9/05/08
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English language is a mess, trusting what we see, what it feels like to make code, pointillist telepresence, an operating system about nothing, and as we may (or may not have enough time to) think.
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- Friday Links - 8/29/08
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Light leftly longingly lately lamentable links lie in wait…
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- Friday Links - 8/22/08
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The National Attention Deficit, Summer Songs, a visit to the Uncanny Valley, Muons for Mayans, and the Last Supper.
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- Friday Links - 8/15/08
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Watch a wonderful animation that brings John Lennon’s words to life, wonder at a new computing method that makes bad videos better (and reminds us why we can’t trust what we see anymore at all), and listen to the Irrepressibles haunting sounds… and of course the usual detritus of a week on the web.
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- Friday Links - 8/08/08
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The opening ceremony, Britain from above, David Bryne is in a valley of robots, Michel has a comic book, tracking the last hope, and EamesPunk finally has a manifesto.
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- Friday Links - 8/1/2008
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A light week in linkland apparently the tubes are slowing down for the summer heat. Visit the Toaster Museum, learn about Dr. Horrible , and stare in wonder at the Super Collider…
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- The Invisible Attendee
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Mickey McManus, Erik Dahl, Paul Gould
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- Pervasive Computing - A Primer: Part 1
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What’s in a name?
Ubiquitous computing, ubicomp, context aware computing, whatever you call it the basic idea is the same. Somehow we have to use the physical world to help “Tame” the complexity that is rapidly overwhelming us all.
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- Friday Links - 7/26/2008
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A few links from our overseas trip, jetpacks?, Feist, and a snippet of Ms. Portman as an Octopus.
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- The Invisible Exhibitor
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Mickey McManus, Paul Gould, Erik Dahl
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- When you can't talk to customers: using storyboards and narratives to elicit empathy for users
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Heather McQuaid, Aradhana Goel, Mickey McManus
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- Designing for a Pervasive Information Environment: The Importance of Information Architecture
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Heather McQuaid, Aradhana Goel, Mickey McManus
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- The Future of Signs: Interactive Information, Inexpensively!
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Mike Higgins, Mickey McManus, Marc Peterson, Aradhana Goel
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Patents
- US7756602
- Inventors:
Koempel; Jeremy (Pittsburgh, PA);McManus; Michael L
(Oakdale, PA); Seung Chan Lim (Pittsburgh, PA) - Issued: 13 July 2010
An entertainment system for a vehicle and includes a vehicle environment sensor apparatus that captures data indicative of the vehicle’s environment and that generates a vehicle environment data feed.
- US7551186
- Inventors:
McManus; Michael L (Oakdale, PA); Piraneque; Javier E. (Cranberry Township, PA);
- Issued: 23 June 2009
Abstract: A handheld electronic device, such as a fob, includes a wireless communication port and a display alternatively displaying a first or right-handed display orientation and a second or left-handed display orientation.
- US07486183
- Inventors:
Joseph Ballay (Atlanta, GA); Mickey McManus (Oakdale, PA); Luebke, Charles J. (Sussex, WI); Sabo, Russ C. (Sewickley, PA); Sabram, William C. (Lynn, MA); Ballay, Joseph M. (Atlanta, GA);
- Issued: 3 February 2009
Abstract: A home wellness system includes a base station having a wireless communication port, a telephone communication port and a memory with a plurality of digital images.
- US07440767
- Inventors:
Joseph Ballay; Joseph Milan (Pittsburgh, PA), Mickey McManus; Michael Lawrence (Oakdale, PA)
- Issued: 21 October 2008
Abstract: A home wellness system includes a server having a wireless transceiver, a plurality of sensors each of which has a wireless transceiver adapted to communicate sensor information to the server wireless transceiver, and a portable display and configuration fob, the portable fob includes a rotary thumbwheel encoder, a display and a wireless transceiver communicating with the server wireless transceiver, the thumbwheel encoder and the display cooperate to provide a first rotary menu for displaying the sensor information of the sensors and a second rotary menu for configuring the sensors.
- US07205892
- Inventors:
Mickey McManus, Charles Luebke
- Issued: 17 April 2007
Abstract: A home system includes a server having a first wireless communication port and a user interface.