Jake Barton
Jake Barton
Jake Bartonis an American designer, and the Principal and Founder of Local Projects, an experience design and strategy firm for museums, brands and public spaces based in New York, NY. His work focuses on storytelling and engaging audiences through emotion and technology...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDesigner
Date of Birth7 November 1972
CountryUnited States of America
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From a UX standpoint, the toughest battle is how to make a platform that's really open so kids can use it but has sort of hooks and constraints so it's actually driving towards revealing parts of the world through science or through mathematics.
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Kids are prone to be on their phone and their iPads, prone to sharing things and making things. Instead of trying to divorce education from that, let's lean into that.
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People learn more if they're learning in directly engaging ways.
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You don't want to pretend that 9/11 ended in 2002 with the first anniversary. So how do you frame the post-9/11 world and play a productive role in discussing it?
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Whether it's a computer or a pen drawing, design is about drawing shapes and making physical things.
Usually, as designers, you try to create meaning.