License Managers

I now have 20 license managers installed on my system for audio editing software and plugins. This covers far more than 20 publishers, because some of the managers (e.g., iLok) cover lots of plugin developers. Generally I view this as near-madness, but IK Multimedia’s Authorization Manager is so well-executed and thorough that I’m not even […]

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A Deep Dive in a Shallow Pool

Germ theory encouraged the reduction of diseases to simple interactions between microrganism [sic] and host, without the need for the elaborate attention to environmental influences, diet, climate, ventilation, and so on that were essential to earlier understandings of health and disease. Harvard’s CURIOUSity Collections Topic to explore: It seems possible to contend that the more […]

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Information design: lifesaving devices infographic

I love the idea of the infographic below, but it fails spectacularly on a couple of information design points. First, and worst, it distorts the values it intends to communicate by hiding parts of the graphic for the larger numbers, thus distorting the visual scale. So, the bifurcated needly (130 million lives saved) is visually […]

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