Purposes of design

Speaking to the values designers strive for, Buchanan articulates it this way, from the Governing Ideas white paper for CMU’s School of Design: “As conceived by designers, the purposes of…

Core design abilities

Again from Dick Buchanan, in his Governing Ideas white paper for Carnegie Mellon’s School of Design: 1. Designers must be inventive in conceiving the possibilities of a product. 2. Designers…

Core ideas of design

Straight from Dick Buchanan, as worded in his Interaction Design class syllabus: “Design is an art of conceiving and planning products that are useful in supporting the activities of human…

Involution UI design guidelines

While re-organizing and cleaning out my laptop, I re-discovered the interface design guidelines document Andrei and Donna created at Involution for our major client, Agile Corp. This has proven to…

Adobe XD design principles

I was cleaning my bedroom closet over the weekend and came across an item I’d received at an Adobe design team offsite back in 2006–a Timbuktu messenger bag with the…