Ben Matthews

design scholars are becoming aware that they are the oppressed in the publishing business designresearchsociety.org/articles/the-f…

We are extremely sad to announce that on the 10th July, Peter Lloyd, the Editor-in-Chief of Design Studies, together with the entire Editorial Board and other Editors, resigned their positions on the journal. Read more from the DRS Executive Board: designresearchsociety.org/articles/the-f…

WHAT IF: Flood victims were offered tiny homes in lieu of house insurers renewing policies? #AlternativeFutures #DesignThinking #SpeculativeNews #WickedProblems #DesignFiction #Futures #Floods #Disaster #Insurance #TinyHomes #ClimateChange wicked-thinking.ghost.io/insurers-refus…

@TrevorH26024268 Nice one, Trev. 🍦

Wordle 234 3/6 🟩⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟨⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

When Wordle becomes consonant Bingo: Wordle 234 5/6* ⬛🟩🟩⬛🟩 ⬛🟩🟩⬛🟩 ⬛🟩🟩⬛🟩 ⬛🟩🟩⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Wordle 229 2/6* 🟩⬛⬛⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 this won’t happen again for a while.

For my non-Aussie friends, our national indie radio station Triple j just released their ‘Hottest 100’ songs of 2021, which is like a blind, democratic version of Eurovision minus the international politics. 😉The Wiggles, an old Aussie children’s band, just took out the #1 spot.

Like Jeff Buckley’s cover of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah”, The Wiggles cover of Tame Impala’s “Elephant” shall henceforth be the definitive version, “Fruit Salad” mashup inclusive.

@simultech That’s interesting… I guess you west coasters get an early preview of the difficulty level. But it’s cool the diagrams don’t give away much more.

@benjayem Interestingly its timezone'd so you are 1 day ahead

It’s a good thing there is only one of these a day. Wordle 205 4/6 ⬛🟨⬛⬛🟨 ⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ ⬛🟩🟨🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

@DesignAndDeath I’m glad they don’t also share how many minutes elapsed between guesses 3 and 4…

Will have to track this one down.

The consolations of working late this time of year. The #uqbloom festival is underway.

@DesignAndDeath Just asked her. She thinks yes definitively, but between us, she’s not quite the archetype of her demographic (a quality that makes her father especially proud, I might add)

This is a still from my first ever professionally-recorded video lecture on human-centeredness in data analysis. And the early reviews are in! This from my 15yo daughter: “Don’t worry dad, when I’m on video I look like a vampire, too.”

@simultech Thank heavens, no. :-), or not yet at any rate.

@benjayem Is there a public link?