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Designing for Social Change: Andrew Shea’s book features 10 strategies that can improve the effectiveness of community-based projects.
ECHOS School of Design Thinking (Echos is an Innovation Lab, from Brazil)
5 stages in the design thinking process (Interaction Design Foundation)
Why design thinking is failing (UX Collective)
The circular design guide (design thinking applied to the circular/sharing economy)
IDEO (pioneers and practitioners of Design Thinking)

How do we know what the future holds? By Anne Lise Kjaer
Wayback Machine – Archive of websites over time, dating back to 1994
How the hyperlink changed everything
The Impact of Digital Technologies on the Practice Of Graphic Design
Before there was Photoshop – Designing a layout with traditional design tools
The Genius of the London Tube map – Michael Bierut (Pentagram) tells the story of this famous piece of information design
Tufte and Information Design – How does ID pioneer Edward Tufte’s thinking apply in the digital age of information visualisation?
Responsive logo design – Branding has adapted to suit a range of uses and devices
The Death of All Websites is Coming – will voice/AI interfaces make websites defunct?

Laser Cutting with Adobe Illustrator – guide to setting up files for laser cutting output
Advantages and Disadvantages of Laser Cutting
Electronic popables – laser-cut pop-up books combined with simple electronics
Laser cut art book by Olafur Eliasson
3D Printing & Technology Convergence – breakthroughs in 3D printing, and future predictions
Arduino Project Hub – ideas for projects built using Arduino boards
Thingiverse – digital designs for 3D objects
Adafruit projects – ideas and instructions for microcontroller projects
hackster.io – practical ideas for projects
instructables.com – idea for physical projects to make
bittysoftware.com – applications that work with BBC micro:bit
Reverse Garbage – recycling centre/store in Woolloongabba, Brisbane
Altronics – electronics supplier in Virginia, Brisbane

The End of the Digital Divide in Services – how digital and physical services have converged. “Nowadays every product, service or organisation needs to act digitally and physically. The distinction between the “physical” and the “digital” world as two separate things is becoming more and more blurred.”
Everything is a service – The producer-driven economy is giving way to a new, customer centred world
Project research: Sharing economy resources:
- Library of Things and spaces changing how we think about stuff – how these libraries become community assets
- Is the Library of Things an Answer to Our Peak Stuff Problem? The Guardian looks at community owned sharing enterprises
- Buy Sell Swap sites – Choice magazine review of online sharing sites
- MyTurn – software for setting up lending libraries
- The Story of Stuff – a community/movement to reduce excess stuff!

“The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.” Miguel De Unamuno

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