London design festival guide 2007. Tee hee.
Category: Thoughts
Viscious white circle
Anyone who’s a die hard fan of Apple, stop reading now… Gone? Ok.. here we go. I walked into Matt’s office yesterday to be greeted by the giddy sound of “Oh hi, we’re following the Stevenote”. I tried not to roll my eyes but simply couldn’t help myself. From 2001 – 2006 , if I… Continue reading Viscious white circle
Interface glitch of the day
Lack of contextual understanding makes some systems seem dumb. On signing up a Yahoo Groups for tinker.it.
Politics and education in art and design
“We expect art to be shocking, extreme.” say Dunne and Raby. I think it might be the other way around sometimes though, art tries to be just art, and we somehow decide to take it personally. Maybe because it’s one of the last uncommercialisable and don’t-have-to-be-politically-friendly forms of expression. Maybe because you can’t call the… Continue reading Politics and education in art and design
Good Night Lamp: progress
Some great progress lately on the Good Night Lamp, go check out the new site with some more details and new fab images. A reason for the update: yours truly might appear in the Annual design review of Surface magazine this fall. Yes, old media! I’m excited nonetheless.
About definitions
Must be the weather. I’ve changed the blurb on my website for the first time since I started freelancing. Before: This is the online portfolio of Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino, freelance interaction designer. I am interested in the way service design ties product design and interaction design together to create meaningful experiences for people both in the… Continue reading About definitions
When convergence sucks
There a saying that goes something like this: “There are 3 types of people in the world: those who participate in the parade, those who wave from the bleachers and the people that don’t even know there’s a parade going on”. Things online used to be fairly simple really. This made me think it is… Continue reading When convergence sucks
I am a synthesizer
I think this is what Il link to when people ask me what i do.
One liners
There’s a habit in the world of product design to only concentrate on the object, its design, the supposed environment in which it would be used (think ikea catalogues where the occasional good looking Swedish person will show up to pick up a spoon from a drawer) and not really on it’s use… For example… Continue reading One liners
Form of the day
The proof this is all a bubble: (Found filling out the usual form page to submit a talk for Berlin’s Web2.0 expo.)