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"Ready, Fire, Aim" Market Reform - O'Reilly Radar

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Designs on Policy - Allison Arieff Blog - NYTimes.com

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- Americans continue to find many of the most common and important documents we interact with in our daily lives extremely, well, perplexing.
- Most people are not aware of what design is or how it influences their lives every day.”
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- - Most people are not aware of what design is or how it influences their lives every day.”
  - Charmed by the graphic perfection of Switzerland’s currency and the elephants and rhinos bursting forth from South Africa’s, Bierut thinks it’s time for a currency overhaul in this country.
  - Sixty percent of respondents rated mortgage documents as being “difficult to understand.”
  - people often didn’t (and still don’t, as they attempt to rework those flawed mortgages) understand what they were getting into. Much of the crisis was, quite simply, based on poor information.
  - “This is where the interaction between design and policy comes in.”
  - Integral to the success of health care reform, Tunstall argues, is clear understanding of what’s to be gained. (Interestingly enough, Republicans recently issued this horrendous example of information design as a means to argue against the Democrats’ health care plan.)
  - Why exactly do we need a design policy?
  - Design touches all sectors of our daily life, and increasing awareness of that reality can result in tremendous benefit for all.
  - Design can save time, money and one’s sanity. It can simplify use, enhance enjoyment, and keep us safe and well. I believe the National Design Policy can help to tangibly illustrate design’s value and help to keep it from being reduced to an afterthought, that “denim patch on a satin dress” Beirut is talking about.
    
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  - One of the Design Policy summit’s immediate action steps was to propose a holistic design award encompassing all the design disciples — and it’s a great place to start. We’ve seen what decades of piecemeal planning and stopgap measures have done to vital parts of our country, from infrastructure to environmental policy. Designers as a group have a greater affinity toward interdisciplinary collaboration, and accordingly, could help push for a more participatory process in decision-making. The current sort of ivory-tower-ish obliviousness to what the guy down the hall is doing has got to change. De-silo-izing departments and disciplines can, I believe, result in more comprehensive policy making decisions.
  - A more integrated design approach could result in a community designed around walkability, public transit and self-sufficiency. It could mean that the proposed health care reforms might actually include forms one could understand and health care facilities that focus on encouraging wellness rather than fixing illness. It could do something as straightforward as relaying the consequences of speeding (like this signage created for the Elm Grove Police Department in Wisconsin).
  - What does frustrate me about the whole notion of a U.S. Design Policy is that the country needs one at all. It feels weird to have to defend design’s importance, yet also completely necessary.
    
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  - A national design policy could also help to bolster American competitiveness at a time when we can use all the help we can get in that arena.
Trying to learn how learning works - USATODAY.com

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American Sublime : The New Yorker

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Op-Contributor - End the University as We Know It - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com

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An interactive map of vanishing employment across the country. - By Chris Wilson - Slate Magazine

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Journalism.org- The State of the News Media 2009

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PressThink: Audience Atomization Overcome: Why the Internet Weakens the Authority of the Press

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Curriculum Matters: What Does 21st-Century Writing Look Like?

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ARRA: Public Review

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FiveThirtyEight.com: Politics Done Right: Did the <span style="font-style:italic;">Wall Street Journal</span> Fire their Fact-Checkers?

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Steve Ersinghaus's List: news

"Ready, Fire, Aim" Market Reform - O'Reilly Radar

Newsletter Signup | Brain Pickings

Designs on Policy - Allison Arieff Blog - NYTimes.com

Trying to learn how learning works - USATODAY.com

Project Aon: Main / Home (browse)

American Sublime : The New Yorker

Op-Contributor - End the University as We Know It - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com

World Digital Library Home

An interactive map of vanishing employment across the country. - By Chris Wilson - Slate Magazine

Journalism.org- The State of the News Media 2009

PressThink: Audience Atomization Overcome: Why the Internet Weakens the Authority of the Press

Yancey_final.pdf (application/pdf Object)

Curriculum Matters: What Does 21st-Century Writing Look Like?

Public timeline - MicroPlaza

ARRA: Public Review

FiveThirtyEight.com: Politics Done Right: Did the <span style="font-style:italic;">Wall Street Journal</span> Fire their Fact-Checkers?

A New Fleet of Spacecraft - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com

Reuters : Bearing Witness

Blogging grows up | Oh, grow up | The Economist

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