Category Archives: Human Centered Design

What is a book?

Posted on June 30, 2020 by

Day 109 of Self Quarantine                       Covid 19 Deaths in U.S.:  128,000 I love books. From the minute I learned how to read, I surrounded myself with books of all kinds. … Continue reading →

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Why are there so few visual analytics applications?

Posted on April 8, 2020 by

I wish I knew. Robert Crawford asked “Why are there so few interactive visualization software application products in the legal space?  Attenex Patterns showed us the power of visual analytics to dramatically improve productivity in the legal market.  Yet, outside … Continue reading →

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From Pages to Places: The Transformation of Presence

Posted on April 25, 2016 by

Synchronicity is a wonderful thing. “Watch legendary Disney animator Glen Keane draw in virtual reality” leaped from my morning email. I clicked on the web page and up came a short article that started with “Virtual reality is a potent … Continue reading →

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Emails to a Young Entrepreneur – The Dialog Begins

Posted on January 1, 2015 by

From: Mikhail Rostov mikhail@emailstoskip.com To: Skip Walter skip@emailstoskip.com Professor Skip, As I was sitting in front of my locker staring at the detritus of my three year combined MBA and Master of Design program at the Institute of Design, I was deep … Continue reading →

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TouchCast – Evolution or Revolution?

Posted on May 28, 2014 by

Way too many moons ago, I came across Paul Ryan and his unique approach to videography. I spent an intense cerebral day with Paul in his apartment near Columbia University in New York City. We were exploring ways to generate … Continue reading →

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Discovering Your Inner Entrepreneur

Posted on May 27, 2014 by

A few months ago, Patrick Whitney and Matt Mayfield invited me to teach an intercession course on Entrepreneuring at the Institute of Design (ID) at the Illinois Institute of Technology. I figured that by March 3, Chicago would be out … Continue reading →

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Storyscaping

Posted on May 27, 2014 by

My colleague, David Robinson, works tirelessly to get me to tell stories. It’s not that I don’t want to. I spent forty years being a terminal analytic, just the facts, kind of presenter. I forget to step back and compose … Continue reading →

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Epistemology of Software?

Posted on October 19, 2013 by

While in the middle of a UW HCDE committee review of Drew Paine‘s dissertation research proposal, I was fascinated by the first sentence of his project goal: “The driving philosophical goal of my dissertation is to critically examine the epistemology … Continue reading →

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Whiteboarding: Designing a software team

Posted on October 1, 2013 by

Not knowing what I was getting into (a common state lately), I joined some former colleagues to catch up on their new venture. They asked me how I would go about designing a software team for their new pivot. They … Continue reading →

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B2B2C

Posted on September 30, 2013 by

Over the last six months, I started a research project in conjunction with a B2B accelerator, 9Mile Labs, to understand what factors lead to entrepreneurial success.  A key part of the research method was to use video ethnography to capture … Continue reading →

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