It’s been a half year since Google released Material Design. I still see it as a great strategy to bring a vocabulary to designers and users for understanding how UIs work. From that design framework, cards have caught my attention from the first time. I always wonder, are cards about UX or are they really about information […]
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Postcolonial design and Mexican culture
I don’t know why I hadn’t paid attention to it before. Maybe it’s consequence of being surrounded by design philosophers, feminists, and rhetoricians as part of my PhD education. I’m talking about the postcolonial role of design in the development of the Mexican culture. I don’t have a concrete argument here, but sparse thoughts and […]
Design, Science, Art and Craft: among facts and abstractions.
A schema to glimpse the relation of Science and Design, Art and Craft, and the position of User Experience (UX) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) regarding Design Theory (DT).