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March 1, 2017 Musings

Designing story (2) : Structure

Some plots are moved forward by external events and crises. Others are moved forward by the characters themselves. If I

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November 14, 2016 Musings

Semiotics: Finding meaning in storytelling

We like patterns and signs to reduce complexity into something more manageable, and then we like to construct stories to explain how

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Pic showing sign saying warning this is a sign
May 24, 2007 Design

Semiotics: It’s a sign!

A structural engineer once told me that he would always win pictionary if he was teamed with another engineer. Structural

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March 9, 2007 Design

Using patterns to shape our world

In the 1990s, Erich Gamma changed the way I thought about software engineering forever! Gamma visited the Ecole Polytechnique Federale

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