20 Awesome Educational Videos on Design
I’ve always believed that videos were one of the best things to happen to learning on the Internet. Now people from all around the world can see beyond just the word and fully appreciate a presenter’s facial nuances and tone of voice. Listed below are some of my favorites in the world of design. There are tons more, but I specifically limited it to educational content or notable speakers with credible bodies of work. I hope you enjoy them as much as I did watching and compiling them. By the way, they are not listed in any order of priority. (via Design Sojourn)
How I wish this was reality now!
Meet Nelson, Coupland, and Alice — the faces of tomorrow’s book. Watch global design and innovation consultancy IDEO’s vision for the future of the book. What new experiences might be created by linking diverse discussions, what additional value could be created by connected readers to one another, and what innovative ways we might use to tell our favorite stories and build community around books?
Sexy Skills of Data Geeks
In his excellent article on the rise of the Data Scientist, Nathan of Flowing Data writes:
Even if you’re not into visualization, you’re going to need at least a subset of the skills […] if you want to seriously mess with data. Statisticians should know APIs, databases, and how to scrape data; designers should learn to do things programmatically; and computer scientists should know how to analyze and find meaning in data.
There are many more nuggest of insight in his post, and I fully agree with him, that - what he terms - Data Scientists will become increasingly important.
I have lately been talking a lot about “IA for the Layman”, my idea that certain skills will have to become common teaching, so people will be able to cope with the increasing tides of data in their personal life.
But IA may be the wrong term, or rather an oversimplification in this context. As Nathan mentions, Ben Fry covers quite well what skills are actually involved and how they form different aspects. So maybe I shouldn’t call it “IA for the Layman”, but rather “Be Your Personal Data Scientist”.
If you’re not prepared to be wrong you’ll never come up with anything original.” - Sir Ken Robinson
