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Friday Links 01-06-2012

Mickey McManus
January 7, 2012 in Articles

Wild Abandon, Mayan predictions, the Empire States, a MAYAn best of list, a show about management consulting, the toaster, some algorithms, knowing but not understanding, DNA sequencing for garage biotech, and of course Spike Jonze and 3000 bits of felt.

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Best Design Articles of 2011

David Bishop
January 6, 2012 in Articles

Welcome to 2012… We’ve pored over MAYA’s Feed posts for the past year, internal “you should all read this” emails, and a few of our favorite blogs. Here’s MAYA’s take on the best design articles of 2011.

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Friday Links - 12-10-2011

Mickey McManus
December 10, 2011 in Articles

Grumpy blather, Audio Reality, best toys ever, MAYAn Action League!, projection mapping taken to a whole new level, turning air into plasma so you can see Obi-Wan, 138 years of Popular Science, and Ice Cube on Charles and Ray Eames.

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The MAYAn Action League

December 10, 2011 in Articles

Introducing the MAYAn Action League! Collect them all!

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Friday Links - 11-05-2011

Mickey McManus
November 5, 2011 in Articles

A night circus, a russian mobster, some pictures of Thailand, a murmuration of starlings, superconductivity on ice, living bridges, mall tigers, the theoretical stereolizer, Eames, Hugo, Ukuleles, monster supplies, and yes, something made of legos.

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A Lesson in Human-Centered Design?

David Bishop
October 2, 2011 in Articles

A number of articles this year about a touch interface called “unintuitive,” “time consuming,” and “impossible to comprehend” gets me thinking about some lessons that can be learned. (Although I’m tempted to be quite snide and say, “did they not usability test this? at all?”)

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TEDTalk - Innovate:Education - The next literacy

Mickey McManus
June 7, 2011 in Articles

What if there were a basic literacy beyond reading, writing, and arithmetic that we missed, or that wasn’t necessary until this moment in our history? And what if that new literacy were the organizing principle between STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) and SEL (social, emotional learning)? What if it could help the least among us leapfrog over the mainstream? What if it could help build collaborative, resilient, creative, & critical thinkers in an age of exponential change?

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MAYA Announces New Roles to Further Advance Human-Centered Design

MAYA Press Release

To further human-centered design, David Bishop is now a MAYA Fellow and Katie Scott has assumed the role of director, Human Sciences Group.

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Pittsburgh Business Times: MAYA Uses Data to Help Fight Childhood Obesity

An article about how John Crowley and his colleagues at MAYA are creating a virtual supermarket to combat the food oasis problem.

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MAYA Companies Moving to Downtown Pittsburgh to Accommodate Growth

MAYA Press Release

Because of MAYA’s continuing organic growth, we’ll be relocating to Downtown Pittsburgh in Spring 2012.

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Vision Monday 2012 Global Leadership Summit

March 21, 2012

Mickey McManus, CEO of MAYA, will speak to the event’s theme of “Innovation Everywhere: Embracing Creativity, Rethinking Competition.” The Global Leadership Summit is geared to senior-level executives in the retail, professional, lab and supplier sectors of the optical industry.

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