Finally, after much procrastination, my thesis project is online. This is really not meant to be that academic really, but more of a pitch for the idea as such. Most of the thinking is in the paper I wrote, but everyone knows that people prefer pretty pictures ; )
You are looking at your phone
I was looking through the list of people who will be attending the NordiCHI workshop this weekend and landed on this very funny (yes perhaps relevant for that service) piece of interface design from Imity. Are we laughing at technology or is it laughing at us i wonder?
The sound of conversation
Pecha Kucha is coming up this fall in London on the 18th of October and on the 1st of December in Amsterdam and I feel incredibly temped to participate. For those of you who don’t know what this this, its a way for designers to talk about their work, network and meet potential clients as… Continue reading The sound of conversation
Colors, typefaces, lists.
It’s a well known fact I have way too many Stickies which over the weekend I managed to reduce to 15 (i think i had at least double that) and found this lovely list of vegetables with the wittiest names. Since I can always use a bit of typeface practice, I thought I’d do something… Continue reading Colors, typefaces, lists.
my Pollock
From Stamen design.
Never mind interaction design, now it's all about "design interactions"
Is this a trend or the byproduct of the fact that most often than not, people can’t commit to defining their field? So now after my earlier rant about the RCA’s new name for it’s interaction design program, i read that former IDII Bill Moggridge is publishing a book called Designing interactions. Sounds so artsy…… Continue reading Never mind interaction design, now it's all about "design interactions"
Responsible design of connected objects.
NordiCHI is coming up next week in Oslo and although I won’t make it to the conference (too expensive for my post-graduation budget at the moment ) I will make it to the Blogject workshop organized once more by Timo, Julian and Nicholas, after a first successful workshop at LIFT in Geneva last spring. We’re… Continue reading Responsible design of connected objects.
Flirtation, deception and architecture.
Hanging out in London cafés as i am these days, i often position myself next to windows (whenever i’m in buses, i always somehow unconsciously end up next to the emergency exit windows but that’s another story) and find myself staring out and observing how people interact with their surroundings. I’ve started noticing the way… Continue reading Flirtation, deception and architecture.
Dilution of a field
Not sure how I feel about this latest announcement of the RCA‘s new Head of Department Tony Dunne. The Interaction design department (which apart from IDII and Umea was the only other school teaching a less Xerox park approach to the field is renaming itself “Design Interactions”. “The focus of the department is shifting, and… Continue reading Dilution of a field
Trop c'est comme pas assez…
Empty… Originally uploaded by alexandra666. Is a very “quebecer” expression that means that too much is like too little. This is a concept that truly and most definitely applies to communication in large corporations. Having spent the past month in what i will brand as one of the world’s “major communications company” it actually amazed… Continue reading Trop c'est comme pas assez…