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Mickey McManus on Blouin News

MAYA CEO Mickey McManus speaks with Blouin News about business and culture in the post-PC era.

MakerSwarm Opens the Internet of Everything to Everyone

The Internet of Things isn’t just about my things or your things. It’s about casually connecting a thousand, a million, a trillion things to build a richer more connected life.

MakerSwarm Wins DEMO God Award

MAYA’s IoT app authoring tool, MakerSwarm, was one of just 5 winners of the top prize at DEMO Mobile.

On the Mobile Frontier

MAYA debuts MakerSwarm at DEMO Mobile—an app authoring tool that allows you to connect your smart devices in minutes.

MAYA's Space Featured in Breaking Ground

Breaking Ground Magazine profiles MAYA’s new office space and the project team that made it happen.

La Roche College Honors

Greg Gibilisco, MAYA’s director of Visual Design, is honored by La Roche College as a Distinguished Alumnus.

Trillions Wins Axiom Award

Trillions is the 2013 winner of the Axiom Business Book Award in the Business Technology category.

MAYA Wins 3 Design Excellence Awards

MAYA’s work for PepsiCo, LUMA Institute and Mad Science Supply & Surplus were recognized by AIGA Pittsburgh with Design Excellence awards.

Hacking Corporate Culture

Steve Spencer and Amit Kiran of MAYA visually scribed the ideas of presenters during a panel at SXSW Interactive on ‘Hacking Corporate Culture: Intrapreneurs, Entrepreneurs, and the Future of Collaboration’.

Crowdsourcing Digital Device Design

MAYA’s Stephen Spencer explores the challenges of creating digital devices at SXSW Interactive in Austin this week by prototyping product concepts in real-time through an interactive collaboration with the audience.

Guest Blogging at Interactions Magazine

Designer and Researcher Lauren Chapman is guest blogging at interactions magazine. Read her first post, The Start of an Exploration.

MAYA Honored by Master Builders' Assocation

MAYA Design’s new space in downtown Pittsburgh was recognized by the Master Builders’ Association of Western Pennsylvania for “Excellence in Craftsmanship” at the Building Excellence Awards.

Computing Turned Inside Out

Mickey McManus talks with TechTalk radio in Boston about preparing businesses to thrive in the next information technology paradigm.

MAYA Principals Win Carnegie Science Award

Congratulations to MAYA’s Pete Lucas, Joe Ballay, and Mickey McManus, winners of the 2013 Carnegie Science Award in the Science Communicator category. The award will be presented on May 3, 2013 at the Carnegie Music Hall in Oakland.

MAYA COO to serve as AIA Pittsburgh chapter president

Dutch MacDonald was selected by his peers to serve as President of the Pittsburgh chapter of the AIA. A long-time board member, he begins his tenure as president in January 2013.

TechVibe Radio Digs in to Trillions

MAYA CEO Mickey McManus will be a guest on the Pittsburgh Technology Council’s weekly radio program TechVibe on Saturday, January 12 at noon to talk about connected devices and the future of information. Tune in to WPGB 104.7 to listen, stream it live, or catch the archived program.

A New Year, A Future View

Start the new year with a fresh look at the opportunities and challenges for business, technology and people as we scale a mountain of a trillion connected devices. Host Jim Cunningham interviews Mickey McManus on the future of ‘Trillions’ on The QED Morning Show. Listen to the interview.

Beyond PC Peak: Trillions Mountain

The Pittsburgh Technology Council talks with MAYA CEO Mickey McManus about the end of one era in information technology and the start of another.

Challenges in the Information Ecology

How can the principles of design science prepare us for the next information revolution? Read an excerpt from Trillions on The Huffington Post’s technology blog to explore the challenges of a vast and saturated information environment.

Going Mad for Science

MAYA Design contributed our branding and building skills to the Mad Science Supply & Surplus shop, outfitting inventors of all ages. A profile in the neighborhood magazine, The Bulletin.

Book from MAYA leaders offers vision of future

The Pittsburgh Business Times spoke with Trillions co-authors about how companies can prepare for the future of computing.

Co-Creation Is Key to Survival in a Trillion-Computer Era

“The McIntosh is an innovation success story.” No, not the Macintosh computer, but the original brand—the apple itself. Mickey McManus is guest blogger at Techonomy, talking about cultivating innovation, in nature and in business.

Fireside Chat with Fast Company Publisher

Christine Osekoski, Publisher of Fast Company had a fireside-style chat with MAYA’s Mickey McManus in front of an attentive audience at New York City’s Liberty Theater at the Under the Influence Summit. Held during Advertising Week 2012 and available now online, McManus talks about what a future with a trillion computing nodes means to business and the media.

Ballay Family Fund Takes Part in Pilot

The Ballay Family Fund, launched last year by MAYA founder Joe Ballay and his wife Sue Ballay, is part of a pilot for the Pittsburgh Foundation’s new initiative, the Center for Philanthropy. The Ballay Family Fund supports innovation in public school education with the goal of promoting and realizing education reform.

Get Yourself Ready For The ‘Next Big Thing’

Princeton weekly U.S.1 profiles MAYA CEO and Trillions co-author Mickey McManus. He tells author Kathy Spring, “We’re living in a pretty amazing world. We’ve gone from a PC on a desk to a supercomputer in a pocket.” And we’re only just at the beginning of the information age.

MAYA Tames Complexity in the Age of Trillions

Mickey McManus believes that we’re entering a world in which humans will be connected to trillions of digital devices—and his firm is helping companies learn to thrive amid the chaos.

A Stunning Vision of our Interoperable Future

Big Think’s Chief Economist, Daniel Altman, finds the power of the microprocessor at the heart of Trillions, calling it “the most prescient and influential book you read this year.”

Three Local Experts Have Been Peering Into the Future of Computing

MAYA CEO Mickey McManus tells the Tribune-Review, “[Trillions] is not really about technology and computers so much as the complexity that comes from those things for everyday people.”

Tech firm sees trillions of computers in future

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette talks to Trillions co-authors Pete Lucas, Joe Ballay and Mickey McManus about the future of computing.

Full STEAM ahead: As STEM discussions heat up, there is a growing desire to add an ‘A’ for art

MAYA CEO Mickey McManus tells the Pittsburgh Business Times that “science is easier to talk about [than design],” but kids really need to learn both to be prepared to solve big problems. The work of former MAYAns John Crowley and Katie Scott is also highlighted.

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.

PEPSICO 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.”

Pittsburgh Business Times: MAYA Uses Data to Help Fight Childhood Obesity

An article about how John Crowley and his colleagues at MAYA are creating a virtual supermarket to combat the food oasis problem.

Post-Gazette.com: Leaders See Tech Imitating Nature

Here’s an article about the evolutionary angle Mickey McManus took when discussing the challenges of the information age. The discussion took place on August 23 at the Pittsburgh Technology Council’s “Making Technology Invisible: Future Trends of Human-Computer Interaction.”

Forbes.com Taming Complexity Blog

My Body Sings The Social Electric: Health In The Age of Trillions
Read this entry in Mickey McManus’s blog about innovations in connected health.

Atlanta Journal Constitution

Read what Bart Foster, founder and CEO of SoloHealth, has to say in the HealthFlock blog about MAYA’s Food Oasis project, our SMS-based virtual grocery marketplace.

Globe and Mail

See Mickey McManus talk about innovation and Human-Centered Design in this series of “Leading Thinkers” interviews with Canada’s Globe and Mail.

The Madness of the Clouds

In this Bloomberg Businessweek article, Mickey McManus tells us how it’s time to sort hype from reality when it comes to cloud computing.

MAYA Prepping Two Companies to Go Out on Their Own

Learn how MAYA is spinning out LUMA Institute to foster human-centered design as a route to innovation within organizations, as well as how we’re incubating another company focused on our Interstacks technology.

MAYA Honored on Great Place to Work Rankings

MAYA was recognized as #22 on The 7th Annual Great Place to Work ® Rankings: 2010 Best Small & Medium Workplaces Presented by Entrepreneur®. The list was narrowed down from over 400 nominated companies and each company was evaluated on five areas: credibility, respect, fairness, pride, and camaraderie.

"The Cloud" as Hindenburg?

Journalist James Fallows calls Mickey McManus’s reference to “The Cloud” as Hindenburg the “pithiest single sentence” he heard at the Aspen/Atlantic Ideas Festival. Mickey was a keynote at the Festival on July 7, 2010.

Many businesses are finding less to worry about by shifting IT services to independent providers

In this Pittsburgh Business Times article about cloud computing, Mickey McManus takes a contrarian view, arguing that there are risks when businesses put their data into a few cloud companies.

The Southside and Design - Delta Magazine

An article in Delta Airlines “Delta Sky Magazine” features an inside look at MAYA and our neighborhood. Hint: the good stuff starts on page 113!

The Art of the Spinoff

An article in Inc. magazine talks about how MAYA Design grows by incubating, and then spinning off, successful businesses.

Fast Company Expert Blog

Fast Company Expert Blogger Shawn Graham visited MAYA and got the scoop on how we foster a culture of innovation.

MAYA Named an Exceptional Workplace

MAYA Design has been selected by Inc. magazine and Winning Workplaces as one of 20 winners of the 2010 Top Small Company Workplaces competition – the best small and mid-sized places to work in the country. Inc.’s June issue features the 20 winners, as well as the 20 finalists. Nearly 500 companies completed applications for the contest.

The Hybrid Problem Solver

During the Economist’s Idea Economy Conference Mickey McManus was on a panel of experts discussing the role of design thinking to the business of solving problems. This was a lively and insightful dive into the intersection of design and business. About 45 minutes long.

Blogging Innovation

Braden Kelly, editor of Blogging Innovation, interviews Mickey McManus at The Economist’s “Innovation: Fresh Thinking for the Ideas Economy” summit in Berkeley, California.

Interactions: March/April 2010

Chris Pacione, who heads our LUMA Institute, writes about the “Evolution of the Mind: A Case for Design Literacy.”

Fox Business Online, Small Business Spotlight

Mickey McManus explains how MAYA makes complicated, powerful products easier to use.

MAYA Develops Solar-powered Interactive Display for Phipps

MAYA Design, based on Pittsburgh’s South Side, has developed a solar-powered interactive display to be rolled out as part of the new Center for Sustainable Landscapes, a “living building” under development at the Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens.

Forbes.com Video Network

MAYA’s CEO Mick McManus talks about the key to good design.

MAYA One of the Best Small Companies to Work for

MAYA Design, a leading technology design and innovation lab, is one of America’s best companies to work for in small business, according to the Great Place to Work Institute (GPTW), ranking number 16 out of all the small and medium companies throughout the U.S. that where evaluated by the institute.

"A Family Affair"

Fortune Small Business features some of the best small companies to work for. MAYA’s Bring Your Baby to Work policy is highlighted.

MAYA's goal: Make the technology of tomorrow work better

Mickey McManus, president and CEO of MAYA Design says that to be ready for “the trillion-node network,” everyone must innovate.

Smartmoney.com

See Mickey McManus’s interview with SmartMoney about the importance of taking smart risks and diversifying during a downturn.

Wall Street Journal Digital Network

Mickey McManus claims that companies need to design two years out into the future, and that innovation and development are the key to survival in the economic downturn.

MacDonald Sends Architectural Students Out into the Community to Learn

The Pittsburgh Business Times wrote an article about how MAYA’s VP of Operations, Dutch MacDonald (a registered architect), teaches the business side of architecture to architectural students at Carnegie Mellon University.

In MAYA's "kiva," where it is, is what it is.

The Pittsburgh Business Times interviewed Mick McManus about how MAYA’s circular “kiva” with its nearly 360-degree whiteboards (hey, we had to have a door) makes ideation sessions more fruitful (and fun). Modeled after the round ceremonial chambers of the ancient Anasazi culture of the American Southwest, MAYA’s kiva encourages both freedom of interaction and the visual expression of ideas.

The full version of this article is printed in the November 7, 2008 edition of the Pittsburgh Business Times.

Investing in Innovation

Design and innovation reporter Reena Jana from Business Week talks about innovation during these tough economic times.

A New Era In Robotics Has Arrived!

The Wall Street Journal picked up our exciting work in Edible Robotics. It was something we did in good fun as part of something called Robot250. So, not only do we make powerful technology easy to use, we can make it edible too.

For more clips and background (or to make your own edible robot) check out our MAYAmake site

Pittsburgh Technology Council: The MAYA Sign

A Pittsburgh Technology Council blog features an article about our shiny new programmable MAYA sign.

Design Thinking in Core77

Our press release announcing the launch of a new venture specifically devoted to the emerging need for design thinking in organizations is picked up by Core77

Pop Star: Mickey McManus

MAYA president and CEO Mickey McManus is interviewed by Pop City Pittsburgh about our vision of the future and how we help clients to prepare for it.

SoloHealth Wins Three Awards, Including 'Best in Show'

Just six months after MAYA helped SoloHealth go from an idea for a vision-testing kiosk to having the actual product fielded in Wal-Mart stores, SoloHealth won three awards at an important trade show in their industry, including “Best in Show,” “Best Healthcare Deployment,” and “Best New innovation in a Kiosk Deployment.” The lead judge said, “It was unlike anything else. This unique application is practical, fun to use, and presents a breakthrough technology platform that demonstrates the ability to make an enormous impact on people’s eye health, as well as the ability to drive revenue in the vision market.”

Day care's new frontier: Your baby at your desk

USA Today’s Stephanie Armour profiles MAYA Design and several other companies that have drawn attention for allowing (even welcoming) babies of employees into the workplace.

Sky Radio: Pervasive Computing

Interview with Mickey McManus about pervasive computing.

Community Catalog Selected as Top IT Project 2006

InfoWorld chose the Community Catalog as the Top IT Project for 2006. Read the full article here.

MAYA Design hiring as a result of new clients

Small piece noting openings at MAYA due to growth in our lineup of clients.

The Uncommon Information Commons

MAYA’s Information Commons improves bioinformatics analysis.

Old habits in New Realities

Smart City Radio interview with Mick McManus about our work with the Carnegie Library.

MAYA Design is in this month's Inc Magazine

“Brave New Office” July, 2006 Francine Gemperle, a relatively new mom, and a talented Human Scientist, at MAYA is interviewed, along with a photo shot of her and her son, Milo, at our Pittsburgh office. They both look fabulous. A couple of points related to the article — we are pro Mom and pro Dad, not just pro Mom. We are gender insensitive. MAYA spelling is incorrect.

Brave New Policy: Babies In the Office

This look at MAYA’s baby-friendly workplace included focused on designer Francine Gemperle and her son, Milo.

Everyday gadgets go 'smarting' off

MAYA in the thick of everyday products and Pervasive Computing.

Missing data at the center of the storm

Josh Knauer and Pari Sabety of the Brookings Institution on the need for accurate, available, accessible and detailed local neighborhood information.

What does "Innovation" really mean?

MAYA’s director of human sciences, David Bishop, talks about balancing innovation against a client’s tolerance or capability for implementing innovative design.

Designing buildings and services from the end user's viewpoint

Covers MAYA’s information architecture and experience design work for the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh.

Allegheny County data-sharing initiative to launch soon

MAYA’s technology behind the Information Commons will also make it possible for healthcare organizations to share data.

Information Commons: a bright star for the future of information

Chris Jablonski talks to Josh Knauer about how the Information Commons liberates information by abandoning the relational database and client/server models.

Designing the Future of Information

White paper from Harbor Research, Inc on the design of information systems for the future.

Two unique initiatives—the “Information Commons” of MAYA Design and “Internet Zero” from MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms—offer simple, proven foundations for the intense complexity of a global information economy.

Fetish: Constant Reminder

Features Eaton | Home Heartbeat as the perfect peace-of-mind tool for paranoid homeowners.

Avoiding Renovator's Remorse: Home Networking

Contrasts Eaton | Home Heartbeat with expensive, complicated systems.

InfoCommons

Audio interview with Josh Knauer about MAYA’s Information Commons.

Constant Reminder

“Seems to be the perfect solution…It’s such a simple system (very Apple Computer-esque), yet I can see it being very powerful.”

Three For The Road

Along with other innovative devices, Travel + Leisure called Home Heartbeat “easy — and fun — to use.”

Wireless's New Hookup

Talks about ZigBee wireless sensors, including the Home Heartbeat work MAYA has done for Eaton.

Home Heartbeat on CBS' Early Show

Danny Lipford, host of “Today’s Homeowner,” shows Home Heartbeat on the CBS Early Show while covering the 2005 International Builders Show in Orlando.

The Internet of things

“The Internet of Things” is how the Boston Globe described the technology behind Home Heartbeat.

Carnegie Library Putting Customers First

Mentions MAYA’s role in a system-wide overhaul of public information spaces.

Public Information Belongs in Public Hands

MAYA’s Josh Knauer makes the claim that “citizen power depends on free access to taxpayer-sponsored data.”

Complexity Yields to Collaboration

Describes MAYA’s approach to design and the benefits of our “intentionally chaotic” workspace.

Future Watch: Taming Data Complexity

A brief introduction to some of MAYA’s vision for a public Information Commons and our technological breakthroughs that free data stranded in islands of information.

Military Uses Private Sector Supply Tactics

As a product developed by GD Viz, our sister company, MAYA’s Visage research pays off for the military (“Over a period of weeks, who knows how many lives that saves, how much faster the job gets done?”) and makes the leap to business and medical applications.

Carnegie's Library Legacy

Mentions MAYA’s role in improving the experience of users as part of a $40 million system-wide makeover of Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Libraries. It’s part of MAYA’s approach to physical information architecture and environmental user-interface design, analyzing an entire environment as a user interface.

Dude, What's in Your Car?

Includes a brief profile and quote from Peter Lucas about automobiles packed with technology: “To have all of these things within your grasp is to control your part of the universe.”

Virtually There?

Covers a pilot project at the University of California San Francisco’s Carol Franc Buck Breast Care Center. Dr. Laura Esserman and her colleagues worked with Oracle and MAYA on a virtual-team/virtual-tool pilot project to bring “more brains to bear more quickly on more-important problems.”

New Web site will map the region's green scene

Introduces greenpittsburgh.net’s interactive Greenmap, designed by MAYA.

Taming the digital beast

Discusses MAYA’s role in the usability aspect of computer-human interaction.

Executive in the Spotlight: The battle against the Ugly Alliance

Profile of MAYA founder Peter Lucas and his views on information-centric design and civic computing.