Ben Shown
@benkshown
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Head of Design at @BlinkUX / Previously at @gotectonic, Microsoft Envisioning, @MoPOPSeattle / Co-founder of @hellopostershow / Alumni of @uwsoa
Cambridge, MA
Joined January 2011
RT @BlinkUX: @NASA joined forces with @BlinkUX to take a comprehensive look at its digital ecosystem. Together, we created a new and unifie….
blinkux.com
Creating a consolidated, user-centered web experience for NASA.gov with years of research, strategy, and design.
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👋Over here at @BlinkUX , we’re hiring for two exciting design leadership roles: Design Director + Principal Product Designer! DM me if interested or please share! #designleadership #designagency #designdirector #uxdesign.
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At @BlinkUX we’re hiring a mid-level designer (product/interaction/visual). Looking for folks in Boston but open to WA, CA, remote candidates too. Especially interested in meeting Black, Latinx, Indigenous candidates. DM if you’re interested! #designjobs
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RT @SpaceDeptof: New merch alert! Limited edition (50) two-color silkscreen 18x24 poster, designed by @benkshown, printed by. $25 includes….
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At what level are you tackling the problem from? Definitely interested in using this worksheet to scope @BlinkUX engagements #intheweeds #10kftview #productdesign #designstrategy.
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Playful minimalism in these art kits for your hall’s walls by TOO Designs
design-milk.com
TOO Designs creates magnetic art kits composed of metal canvases and geometric magnetic pieces that you can mix and match into works of art.
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#ThrowbackThursday to this nifty data visualization/illustration from 1978 on areas most often missed during hand washing #washyourhandslike #tbt #coronavirus #covid19
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Take 3 minutes to read this article by @RebeccaCokley on the disability community’s preferred lexicon
rebecca-cokley.medium.com
Why “Special Needs Student” is not the preferred lexicon
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“Mercury’s intention-as-context architecture vaccinates the user against the unintentional consumption of information.” 🔥revisiting this from 2019 by @jasonyuandesign
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👀 Degrees of Freedom’s origami-inspired flat-pack furniture that self-assembles
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SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft features a neat trick: After being launched into space, it deploys massive solar arrays that unfold from the rocket body (video here). These arrays suck up the sun's...
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So pumped on these Olympic and Paralympic kinetic icons by Masaaki Hiromura + Kota Iguchi for #Tokyo2020
itsnicethat.com
The 73 kinetic icons designed by Masaaki Hiromura and animated by Kota Iguchi each show their sport in motion, representing 22 Paralympic sports and 33 Olympic sports.
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Upset caused by the resignation of #CooperHewitt director Caroline Baumann is the least of the design museum’s problems
dezeen.com
The furor caused by the resignation of Cooper Hewitt director Caroline Baumann is the least of the design museum's problems, says Aaron Betsky.
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Brazilian designer Warleson Oliveira has a rad minimalist take on the Uno card game
creativebloq.com
Classic card game goes back to basics.
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“Every great design begins with an even better story.” - @lorindamamo #MotivationalMonday #DesignerQuotes #StoryDrivenDesign.
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#ThrowbackThursday to when @alannamacgowan and I (along with other UWers) made a postcard project that got picked up by @knockknock #TBT
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This music video by @rianjohnson for @lcdsoundsystem’s oh baby is so damn haunting and resonant:
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Decolonizing design roundtable with Ramon Tejada, Miguel Navarro Sanint, Neebinnaukzhik Southall, Amy Wu via @aigaeyeondesign.
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“The most important possible thing you can do is do a lot of work.” – Ira Glass on taste. Video by .Daniel Sax #MotivationalMonday #IraGlass #DanielSax.
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