This documentation of an installation by Nate Harrison traces the history of the “Amen break.” A drum track originating from an obscure, late-sixties funk album, the Amen break was sampled ubiquitously in late-80s hip hop, and later served as the foundation for the entire genre of drum and bass. Asks Harrision, “Hundreds of tracks, dozens [...]
Alex Wright summarizes his IA Summit presentation on Stone Age Information Architecture, or, “how pre-literate cultures manage their collective intellectual capital.” He adds a valuable insight to the ongoing debate between old-guard hierarchical systems of classification and tagging/social classification, namely, that hierarchical classification may be more deeply ingrained in our cultural past than we realize.
The Washington Post reports that San Francisco interactive agency Method has been engaged by the Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum to lead a major redesign of their existing site. Only about 500 items from the 250,000-piece collection are currently viewable to the public. The new site will encourage visitors to play a curatorial role through the use [...]
This is my official first post. I have a variety of goals for this site. First and foremost, it is intended to be a forum for writing and thinking about user experience (UX) design, and the wide variety of disciplines and practices it encompasses, overlaps and references. In addition to writing about topics of interest [...]