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Prototyping Resilience: Using games to engage communities in disaster response

by maiorana Posted on May 18, 2021

Proceedings of Relating Systems Thinking and Design (RSD9) 2020 NID Ahmedabad, India Abstract: This paper uses a wildfire evacuation preparedness initiative in the community of Bolinas, California as a way to illustrate how serious games can be used as prototypes … Continue reading →

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AIGA Converge 2017 – Long Paper

by maiorana Posted on June 1, 2017

Title: Developing Complex Systems With Low-Fidelity Prototypes Author: Thomas Maiorana, Assistant Professor of Design, University of California, Davis Abstract: If design is to continue to make a credible claim that it can solve the world’s most pressing problems, our tools must … Continue reading →

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5 Lessons From a BMX Backflip

by maiorana Posted on October 7, 2014

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This blogpost (5 Lessons from a BMX Backflip) that I wrote for the d.school in 2014 reflects the way a “tramp bike” can be used as an organizing metaphor for prototyping.

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5 Lessons From a BMX Backflip

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