Thinking Instead of the Box

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Recent thoughts on design

Defining the "T-Shaped Designer"

On the "T-shaped designer" and the garden of experience.

DrumKit Arduino (and the Politics of Education)

One of my main projects from the fall '10 semester: a concept design for a modular robotic drum set that brings together programming, music, math, and science as an educational product.

Divergent Thinking in Context

In my presentation from this summer, I discussed divergent/convergent thinking as a part of the general problem-solving process. Divergent thinking in particular has a role at every stage of the design process.

Introducing Instead of the Box

After months of designing and writing code, Instead of the Box is launching. The site, driven by a from-scratch, flexible PHP backend, will be the home of my portfolio, my blog on design and design theory, and other projects.