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SEAN GOURLEY USES DATA MAPPING TO UNDERSTAND HUMAN CONFLICTS - TED

By pulling raw data from the news and plotting it onto a graph, Sean Gourley and his team have come up with a stunning conclusion about the nature of modern war -- and perhaps a model for resolving conflicts.

Pakistani Refugees

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Design vs. Data

Douglas Bowman left his position as top visual designer at Google and said that designs there lived or died by data on consumer responses. Read the NYTimes article here

ON DESIGN

I was thinking about what it is to be a designer. and what it means to grow as a designer and if there is ever a ceiling that we wont be able to push through.

I think things are going to get more exciting as designers think of new ways to expand existing frameworks, allow their systems of thinking and creating to cross over into other disciplines, professions and fields. I"m not sure what this means or what this looks like.

But i know part of what I am realizing that if you want to develop your existing skills you have to test the limits of what those are, identify where they can take you and then recognize that they can only get you so far. Once that happens you can begin to think about all that you don't know and start in again.

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