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I’m just going to embed this because I can
Embarrassed to say how many times I’ve watched/listened to this since last night…
No Undo Button for Transmitting Ideas
OK Go’s new video made the interweb rounds pretty quickly. By any measure it was pretty cool to watch. But I also couldn’t really enjoy it because of something I …
A couple Notes from Listening to Richard Saul Wurman and SenseMaker Dialogs
While attending SenseMaker Dialogs for their second event I was quite impressed with Richard Saul Wurman, the first of the two speakers last night. The term speaker is probably not …
Double issue of Link Drop (8·14·09) & (8·21·09)
This week’s version of Link Drop was a week late and while I hate excuses there’s a pretty good one. Last weekend I was redesigning the format of Link Drop …
Company Deal Announcements
A positive sign that the economy might soon be moving upwards is the energy generated after some of the recent tech mergers. It was only a couple weeks ago that …
Link Drop (8·07·09)
It’s been a bit of an up and down week over here at DesignNotes. I’ve been under the weather of most of the week which is highly unusual, and on …
Recording myself via my iPhone via my MacBook Pro
Michael Surtees from MFA Interaction Design on Vimeo. So you’re thinking about becoming a designer? If I could tell you only *one thing* about going into the field, my advice …
Link Drop (7·17·09) & (7·24·09)
This week’s Link Drop is a double issue as I was preoccupied with being in SF last Friday. For this post I combined the best of what I found in …
Studying Process Type Foundry
This post is a bit of an experiment for me. It’s also has taken a couple days to complete hence the slow down in posts this week. I started off …
Link Drop (6·26·09)
Ok, this Link Drop is even too late for my liking… But it’s better to publish it three days late as opposed to not posting it all or doing a …
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DesignNotes is published in NYC by Michael Surtees. Michael tries to explore people's daily experiences and observations with design. Recently he shifted from being the Principal and Creative Director of Gesture Theory to designing products at Dataminr. He can be reached at michael at michaelsurtees.com 
