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Practical Abstraction

20 Mar 2016

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20min.

“The devil is in the details” they say. I’ll share some examples of how to not get lost in them, how to “zoom up” using language, concepts, maps, which can be every bit as precise and detailed in our heads as the things in our hands.

http://interaction16.ixda.org/session/practical-abstraction/

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