Hello, my name is Rob Dewey. Strategist, educator, and musician
Why Arthur Schopenhauer thought music was the greatest of all artforms, via @bigthink
November 5, 2021
In defense of browsing. #library #research
September 17, 2021
A biography of the pixel: "The underlying idea – a repackaging of infinity – is subtle and beautiful."
August 25, 2021
Hit songs rely on increasing “harmonic surprise” to hook listeners, study finds.
August 10, 2021
Neurons unexpectedly encode information in the timing of their firing.
July 8, 2021
Mise-en-Place for Knowledge Workers
July 2, 2021
"The more we synchronize ourselves with the time in clocks, the more we fall out of sync with our own bodies and th…
June 12, 2021
Over 100 adult animated series are currently in various stages of development and production.
June 9, 2021
The Microwave Economy
May 29, 2021
Building software for artists, via @uxdesigncc #ux #uxdesign
May 19, 2021
Ink traps and pals. #typography
April 19, 2021
Meaning in the Margins: On the Literary Value of Annotation, via @lithub
April 14, 2021
Speech to birdsong conversion.
April 1, 2021
Video of 38 presentations from last October's @ATypI online conference. #typography
March 29, 2021
Computers and creativity: To foster optimal human innovation, digital creative tools need to be interoperable, mold…
March 25, 2021
Google’s FLoC Is a Terrible Idea
March 4, 2021
Collection of Human Interface and Software Design Guides #hci
February 5, 2021
GM changes brand logo to highlight EV future #yikes
January 8, 2021
Sidenotes in web design. #typography #ux
December 10, 2020
“Complexity is like energy. It cannot be created or destroyed, only moved somewhere else.” #ux
December 8, 2020
The lost PBS animations of Herb Lubalin. #PBS #typography
October 31, 2020
A Grand Unified Theory of Product Ideation
October 13, 2020
“It may be that we are already surrounded by AIs but have no idea that they exist. Their beingness is invisible to…
October 9, 2020
Happy Birthday, PBS. Please Save Us.
September 28, 2020
Writing for snobs.
September 15, 2020
“Visual experimentation can create meaning.”
September 13, 2020
Open Source Everything
September 4, 2020
Inventing Posters, via @ilovetypography
August 10, 2020
How tech companies understand “clarity” reveals what they assume about users. #ux
July 20, 2020
Is the sublime a hopelessly old-fashioned Euro-Romantic ideal?
July 17, 2020
COVID-19 and The Attention Economy
July 3, 2020
What’s New in macOS - Human Interface Guidelines
June 23, 2020
Agile culture in design strategy. #ux #uxdesign
June 18, 2020
A short history of geometric composition. #typography
May 14, 2020
A short history of color theory.
May 14, 2020
“Electronic music—a synthesis of technological, scientific, and aesthetic discourses—was the ultimate Cold War inno…
May 1, 2020
“As the Covid-19 crisis hopefully comes slowly under control, we ought to attend to a very different kind of crisis…
April 24, 2020
Letterform Archive has opened its well-structured online archive of nearly 1,500 objects and 9,000 images to everyo…
April 14, 2020
The End of the Experience Economy?
April 13, 2020
The Next Frontier in Storytelling Universes and the Never-Ending Desire for More
March 23, 2020
Surprise: Six out of ten senior European marketers experienced a higher level of creativity after their business mo…
March 11, 2020
Tone fields larger than stars. @disquiet
March 3, 2020
Google Fonts Analytics #typography
February 19, 2020
The case for digital public infrastructure, harnessing past successes in public broadcasting to build community-ori…
February 6, 2020
"The printing press made individual books more uniform and more numerous, but it also put the idea of universal tru…
January 29, 2020
10 team exercises to enhance divergent thinking and generate more/better ideas, via @IDEOU:
January 23, 2020
The paradox at the heart of A/B testing: "It's useful in some scenarios, but many times the costs outweigh the bene…
January 22, 2020
The role that #Flash and the #creative ambitions of designers played in expanding the open web.
January 22, 2020
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Rob connects insight, ideas and performance to create understanding and deep engagement. He was named a Fellow of the American Center for Design in 1995 and serves on the adjunct faculty at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Specialties: creative research, creative strategy, brand strategy, marketing strategy, experience strategy, communications planning, content development, team management, process development
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