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Jake Barton [1972-0] American

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Designer

Jake Barton is 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.

Anniversary, Architecture, Learning

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People learn more if they're learning in directly engaging ways.	Learning	101
Whether it's digital or physical, a pencil or a pen: line work. Humans are making things. And out of that comes the entire designed world we live within.		102
A lot of our insights are based on the ways in which people spend time at museums. They're curious, open, interested, and engaging. They want to express themselves and see their own identity refracted through the museum's.		103
Usually, as designers, you try to create meaning.		104
It's not very hard to be clever. It's far harder to be simple, obvious, and meaningful.		105
It's hard to make something feel like it needs to exist.		106
People are moving into modes of participation and self-generation, which apply to everything from museums and television to architecture.	Architecture	107
The Memorial Finder covers the gap. It tells you the specific panel and number where you can find an individual but begins to reveal the connections between the names themselves. As you move around the site itself, a smartphone app will reveal adjacencies as well as the stories behind the names.		108
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?	Anniversary	109
Playgrounds are essentially machines to induce Newtonian physics on our own bodies.		110
Sitting with a bunch of adults and arguing about what's going to be most effective for kids is just sort of self-defeating.		111
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.		112
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.		113
People come to museums for storytelling and engagement, and the technology needs to facilitate that.		114
I often say to prospective clients, 'Nothing will age faster than your hardware.' Even the thinnest touch screen will look like a toaster oven in a number of years.		115
As long as your storytelling and emotional depth are intact, that's what people will focus on.		116
Museums, I think, are becoming more and more aware of how to turn themselves into a must-see spectacle.		117
Whether it's a computer or a pen drawing, design is about drawing shapes and making physical things.		118
The Hewitt sisters were these amazing - both sort of philanthropists and dilettantes who went out and single-handedly collected all of these of-the-moment designs in wallpaper and textiles and in graphic design in order to teach people about design.		119

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