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By James Lee
"Understanding long-term trends is an important tool in identifying opportunities and risks. STEEP analysis looks at the world through five different perspectives – Social, Technological, Economic, Ecological, and Political.
"The following are the major themes that are presently shaping the future..."
Quite a deep synthesis of emerging trends. What is most interesting to me is the second part of the article, in which the 7 trends are conidered in combinations with one another, creating reverberating trends upon trends.
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Sometimes the toughest step in building a new website or redesign can be the conceptual ones. Selecting a color palette is one of them that can be tough if you don’t have the right tools. So where do you start?
It all comes down to basic color theory and the color wheel. That same tool that teachers used in school really is the basis for how designers plan and use color in almost every project from the simplest web page to expansive brands with multiple sites and campaigns... Via Lauren Moss Delete the scoop?
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The Top 100 Tools for Learning 2012 as voted for by 500+ learning professionals worldwide... Via Sarantis Chelmis, Jim Lerman Delete the scoop?
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March 12, 11:49 PM
Data is everywhere and well-designed data graphics can be both beautiful and meaningful. As visualizations take center stage in a data-centric world, researchers and developers spend much time understanding and creating better visualizations. But they spend just as much time understanding how tools can help programmers and designers create visualizations faster, more effectively, and more enjoyably.
As any visualization practitioner will tell you, turning a dataset from raw stuff in a file to a final result in a picture is far from a single-track, linear path. Rather, there is a constant iteration of competing designs, tweaking and evaluating at once their pros and cons. The visualization research community has recognized the importance of keeping track of this process.
Read the complete article to learn more about the future of the practice and the tools that enable designers to create thoughtful infographics and visualizations... Via Lauren Moss Delete the scoop?
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Educational changes predicted include online education as a Government cost cutting imperative, urbanisation leading to the demand for more education, the need for education to drive necessary innovations, Gray boom looking to teaching and mentoring as a second career.
It is important to observe and work with trends. I think the greatest challenge will be to know when to let go. What works and what does not work? Those will become essential questions.