Ultimately this is what I am trying to do but know the best way to do it. I keep experimenting and getting more confused. Researching the site I see bits and pieces but they do not always apply here, so why not ask.

Back to the example. Click on Modern Home (see first link above), you get the Page with Gallery Template. What I want to do is have TWO separate galleries on the page — one for research images, the other for project images . . .

this is gary d and here is some copy for the heck of it.

Ultimately this is what I am trying to do but know the best way to do it. I keep experimenting and getting more confused. Researching the site I see bits and pieces but they do not always apply here, so why not ask.

Back to the example. Click on Modern Home (see first link above), you get the Page with Gallery Template. What I want to do is have TWO separate galleries on the page — one for research images, the other for project images.

Ideally, I’d like to click on a gallery (research images let’s say) and see a group of research images that relate to the overall post Modern Home. Click on the project gallery and see a number of sketches, product concepts and so on.

Is this possible?

My solution so far is this:

It’s been a fascinating journey for me to prepare the lecture because, for the most part, I took my background as a journalist for granted. I didn’t see my experience the same way some design educators do.

But it makes sense.

I am continually asked by design students, design educators, junior designers working for consultancies or in the corporate world, and design managers questions about research. Not the fact that research is needed in design. That’s well accepted now, especially since the profession is peppered with cultural and people specialists like anthropologists, psychologists, and in some cases sociologists.

But they all go about their research following their training in the social sciences. A journalist’s perspective is different, how he or she goes about getting to information, how they observe, how they approach, interact with, and ask questions of people. How they handle volumes of information. How they make sense of and create.

But more on this later.

As this will serve as sample post, text for now . . . I’ll come back and clean up and officialize later . . .

Some notes, typos and all from an iPad.

One of my favorite apps ever.

Im not an artist, per se, not like many of my designer, illustrator, visualization friends.

But with Paper I feel like one.

It’s simple. It makes choices for you: you get an eraser, a (amazingly accurate) pencil, a calligraphy pen, a ballpoint pen, a marker, and a brush. No pencil and brush sizes to choose from. You get a carefully selected but limited color pallet of reddish, orange, a light purple, brown, teal, sorta green, black, and white.

If you want more, use Sketchbook Pro or Procreate, amazingapps in their own right, but extremelt powerful, complex, and complicated. Especially for non professionals.

Paper is meant to collect quick sketches, ideas, thoughts. Use it for visuals or capture a few works and highlight with a color.

Used it to create this banner, using five of the colors. Not the most original. Not the best. But fun. Created on the iPad, assembled in illustrator, uploaded, done.

Even thinking of doing a presentation with Paper.

Sure, limited. Lots of discussion here. Lots of biting comments at app store.

If you don’t, the monster becomes gaunt and whittles away. People who visit your website, read your blog, listen to your podcast, and take in your words of wisdom get frustrated. They may return once or twice, but if there is no new content to chew they’re done.

I hate to say it, my monster is very, very hungry. And he’s damn grumpy. See, for more than 15+ years I wrote for major metropolitan newspapers and magazines. Then I met product design and education and, well, my attention turned elsewhere and my stories took a different form.

I dabbled in blogging, both personally and professionally, and messed with other forms of social media but I grew bored, took sites down, and ultimately was buried by the noise. Too many blogs. Too many Tweets. Too many status updates. Not enough time.

It’s not that I don’t have anything to say. I do. Lots. About design. Education. Sports. Products. Technology. Family. Politics. Books. The iPhone. The iPad. The Internet. Media. Culture. Health. Heart disease. Strokes. Movies. TV. Home improvement. Jazz. Art. And baseball. Lots of baseball.

So it’s time to feed the monster.

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By the way, the monster shown here is Bloo from Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends, where all monsters who are not on Supernatural go to hang out.