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Friday Links 04-20-2012
Mickey McManusGateway 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
Mickey McManusAngelmaker, 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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MAYA Presents a Project at Portal Bridge Design Symposium
MAYA is one of five nationally recognized design teams to publicly present their design concepts for the Portal Bridge, the iconic entranceway to Pittsburgh’s Point State Park. The company’s design proposal will be presented at a symposium to be held at the Carnegie Museum of Art Lecture Hall . . .
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PepsiCo asks, "What If" at South by Southwest with help from MAYA
Visitors to the digital festival, South by Southwest, were treated to a host of ways to explore PepsiCo’s “What if?” theme for envisioning digital innovation. Both Matt Casebeer of MAYA Designs and David Weiner, Manager of Global, Digital and Social Media at PepsiCo were interviewed on how attendees were engaged in novel ways, using digital technology and how the companies worked together to make it happen.
Read full articlePEPSICO PRESENT FUTURISTIC EXPERIENCES AT SOUTH by SOUTHWEST FESTIVAL
PepsiCo’s interactive Zeitgeist Phone Booth captured the attention of visitors to the 2012 South by Southwest Festival. PepsiCo provides an inspiring look at the way technology could soon transform our future consumer engagements. MAYA helped the PepsiCo team develop the Zeitgeist experiences based on the theme of “What If.”
Read full articleMAYA Announces New Roles to Further Advance Human-Centered Design
To further human-centered design, David Bishop is now a MAYA Fellow and Katie Scott has assumed the role of director, Human Sciences Group.
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Best Design Articles of 2011
David BishopWelcome to 2012… We’ve pored over MAYA’s Feed posts for the past year, internal “you should all read this” emails, and a few of our favorite blogs. Here’s MAYA’s take on the best design articles of 2011.
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A Lesson in Human-Centered Design?
David BishopA number of articles this year about a touch interface called “unintuitive,” “time consuming,” and “impossible to comprehend” gets me thinking about some lessons that can be learned. (Although I’m tempted to be quite snide and say, “did they not usability test this? at all?”)
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What does it feel like to make code?
Mike HigginsIf you take up a new art form, even if you fail to become extremely proficient, you may notice a change in how you perceive the world. I am not a particularly adept photographer, but I’ve spent enough time learning to understand the medium that it has affected my vision: I see light and shadow and geometry now in a way different from how I saw them before.
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IDSA Mideast Design Dialogue Conference: Rebuilding Our Region with Design
MAYA Fellow David Bishop believes that the next generation of citizens needs help in leapfrogging over the basics to become creative, agile, critical, collaborative, and resilient thinkers. The way to achieve this lies in radically innovating education to include design as a way of thinking.
In his talk on March 31 entitled “Design Literacy: Helping Topple the World,” David will speak about the importance of learning design thinking in addition to so-called “STEM” subjects (science, technology, engineering, and math) The IDSA Conference runs March 30-31.
Vision Monday 2012 Global Leadership Summit
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.
PACE Forum in London
David Bishop, MAYA Fellow in Human Sciences, gave a joint keynote presentation with London’s PDD Group, with whom we have a strategic alliance. MAYA and PDD spoke about “Intelligent Packaging in a Connected World” at the PACE (Packaging And Converting Executives) Forum in London on February 9. The MAYA/PDD alliance was formed to bring superior connected experiences to companies across the globe.