Digital Disruption

I’m currently obsessed with data visualization. Quoting from Wikipedia: The main goal of data visualization is to communicate information clearly and effectively through graphical means. It doesn’t mean that data visualization needs to look boring to be functional or extremely sophisticated to look beautiful. To convey ideas effectively, both aesthetic form and functionality need to [...]

Tag clouds have been around for a while. I just found a really beautiful example that builds a “word cloud” visual representation of a piece of copy you enter or of a website. Here’s how it represented this blog: Tweet

The New York Times has an interesting article about a group of Adobe designers who spent a day using their hands (and not their computers) to design. The majority of designers are using simulation and virtual representation to design. Its time to apply a more balanced approach to design utilizing the tactile, God-given tools we [...]

On Sunday morning I woke up at 4am to the sounds of what I thought was bombing! I guess I was dreaming about the Soviet / Georgian bombings and awoke in that reality. Then my mind told me I was in “Safe Toronto” but I still felt anxious as the sounds continued. I switched on [...]

There have been recent discussions about the effect that Google is having on us and it’s negative impact on our ability to remember information, our ability to think deeply about things and to focus and concentrate. My 6 3/4 yr old daughter has given me a very different view into the next information / knowledge [...]