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The Mangrovia Collective Unobtrusive Gender Tracker
Decision and Policy making 8 mars 2018 11 mars 2018

The Mangrovia Collective Unobtrusive Gender Tracker

  Virginia Valian’s Why so slow makes the case for tracking and recording gender biases in our daily life – a way to raise…

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Good night, smartphone
Decision and Policy making 3 février 2018 3 février 2018

Good night, smartphone

  Research worries – and so do conscious parents – about children’s overexposure to smartphones and screens at large. Remedies go from apps that…

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The end of iconicity
Cross-Cultural Design 29 janvier 2018 29 janvier 2018

The end of iconicity

The welcome screen of most current smartphones is a collection of representations of vintage technologies. There is an icon for the camera that represents…

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Space is the new box, aka: peripersonal space
Cognition 13 novembre 2017 13 novembre 2017

Space is the new box, aka: peripersonal space

St Jerome had a large space to work in, but apparently he preferred a little, boxy, office. Possibly easier to heat than the vast…

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Mangrovia’s Rad-Art
Cross-Cultural Design 1 mai 2017 2 mai 2017

Mangrovia’s Rad-Art

The Mangrovia Rad-Art implement is running just fine! Somewhere in France, a common problem. Cars and trucks speed through a residential neighborhood. On average,…

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In case of an emergency, look for the red window
Cognition, Signage and Wayfinding 22 novembre 2016 22 novembre 2016

In case of an emergency, look for the red window

          On Milan Green Line Metro, november 2016. The time will come, you have act in an emergency. Quick, what…

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Orly’s Eleven
Cross-Cultural Design 22 novembre 2016 22 novembre 2016

Orly’s Eleven

    Writing from Paris T7 line, that takes us from our respective locations to Orly Airport. Hmm… Orly? We can count 11 occurrences…

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Odd Even Numbers
Cognition, Display of Quantitative information, Usability 20 mai 2016 23 mai 2016

Odd Even Numbers

Speedometers come in a range of formats. Some are purely digital; most are analog. Digital speedometers have the cognitive advantage of an immediate and…

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The restroom elevator ambiguity
Cross-Cultural Design, Signage and Wayfinding, Visual design 20 mars 2016 20 mars 2016

The restroom elevator ambiguity

Pictograms have been around for almost a century now, and in the last fifty years they have undergone systematic standardization and refinement. It’s all…

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Design is about mindfulness
Cognition 7 novembre 2015 9 mai 2016

Design is about mindfulness

“Imagine a situation in which an elderly woman is able to live independently. She typically shops for her groceries every few days. When she…

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