Artificial Intelligence in Carbon Utilization

Artificial Intelligence (AI) can play a significant role in carbon utilization by optimizing processes, improving efficiency, and enabling new approaches to capture, convert, and reuse carbon dioxide (CO₂). Here are a few ways AI can be leveraged for carbon utilization: Carbon Capture Optimization AI can optimize the process of capturing CO₂ from industrial emissions or … Read more

Green Technology

“Solar and Battery Storage to Make Up 81% of New U.S. Electric-Generating Capacity in 2024.” -U.S. Energy Information Administration.  Green technology is an umbrella term that describes the use of technology and science to create products and services that are environmentally friendly. Green tech is related to cleantech, which specifically refers to products or services … Read more

Green, Environmental, and Sustainable Technology: What’s the Difference?

The terms “green technology”, “environmental technology”, and “sustainable technology” are often used interchangeably, but they have key differences with distinct focuses. Green Technology refers to technology that is specifically designed to reduce or reverse the effects of human activity on the environment. It emphasizes minimizing waste, reducing emissions, conserving energy, and using renewable resources. Examples include: Environmental Technology is a broad term … Read more

Experience Design Across the Platform

Experience Design teams don’t just put a couple of nice new UI levels on top of applications. They design the application experience top to bottom for simplicity, mobility, and extensibility.  Today, customers move across devices. Depending on the task that they need to do: a simple task that they can complete on their wearable or phone, a … Read more

Information Architecture

Information architecture (IA) focuses on organizing, structuring, and labeling content in an effective and sustainable way.  The goal is to help users find information and complete tasks. The Information Architecture Institute defines information architecture simply: “Information architecture is the practice of deciding how to arrange the parts of something to be understandable.” The purpose of your … Read more

System Response Time and Feedback Guidelines

  There is no industry standard for application response time1. How long someone is willing to wait is only relevant in the context of how important the task is to them. For example, how long someone is willing to wait to view their family’s online photo album versus how long they are willing to wait … Read more

Hick–Hyman Law and Design

Psychologists William Edmund Hick and Ray Hyman define “the time it takes for a person to make a decision as a result of the possible choices he or she has” in the Hick–Hyman Law.That is, increasing the number of choices will increase the decision time logarithmically. This means that people subdivide their total collection of choices into categories, eliminating … Read more

Getty Center Parking Garage Barrier Bars

Located in Los Angeles, California, the Getty Center is a museum that specializes in pre-20th-century European paintings, drawings, illuminated manuscripts, sculpture, and decorative arts; and 19th- and 20th-century American and European photographs. It is named after famed oilman J. Paul Getty who’s trust funds it. The center is best known for its architecture, gardens, and … Read more