Category: Thoughts
Is this how we're gonna go down?
I hate to think that with the growing environmental challenges we are facing, the human race is going to sit there arguing whose fault it is that the planet is heating up. It’s a useless conversation that you see in every Hollywood movie, just before the big wave crashes down, the 2 main characters are… Continue reading Is this how we're gonna go down?
How i feel
Sometimes glitches in Twitter are reflective of how I feel at the moment, in this case: repetitive.
Physical computing platforms for designers
Interesting article written by my friend Camille who’s studying interaction design at Umea on the different platforms for designers to do physical computing and quickly prototype behaviors. PDF(2.4 MB) here.
An Xtech proposal
Man, I’m really reaching new levels of geekiness. So I submitted a presentation proposal for XTech in Paris next May, fingers crossed. Title: Ceci n’est pas seulement une pipe: designing for semantic meaning in a connected world Description: Using examples of applications to illustrate the semantic disturbance that takes place when then web hacks objects… Continue reading An Xtech proposal
The year that was 2006
As we’re approaching the end of this year and I’m trying to recap this rollercoaster of a year and went back to one of those corny questionnaires that a friend from Quebec sent me a few years ago and fill it out, it’s good for the karama people! Those who are brave enough can post… Continue reading The year that was 2006
Xmas wishes
About the democracy of creation and sustainability
As soon as I started blogging, a little over a year ago now, I’ve always been interested in how my former life of industrial designer merged with the internet. I went to blogject workshops, read about the “internet of things”, went to “near field interactions” workshop, looked at Matt’s work on Second life, listen to… Continue reading About the democracy of creation and sustainability
Twits
I joined the bandwagon of Twitter fully aware that i would only collect a meager amount of friends on it, (since it seems fashionable around the geek arena now to jump into the same friend collecting activity as kids on myspace) but thought it was an interesting twist on Jaiku. It definitely feels like “myspace… Continue reading Twits