designswarm thoughts

“A new study reveals that we make our music purchases based partly on our perceived preferences of others.”

From aLive Science article

Im so one step ahead… mouhahahah, still an interesting post on an Engaget post

“The bright pink silk tie has a hidden pocket on the back that’s the perfect size for an iPod nano, and includes an extra loop to keep headphone wires from getting tangled (though from Pink’s promo pic, right, it looks like the wires will get a bit jammed anyhow, since the headphone jack on the nano is on the bottom). We can’t help but worry that using this with anything heavier than a nano would result in a curious tightening around the throat — not to mention a rather unattractive stretching of our neckwear.”

I am now sucked in again into another exciting 2 weeks of what we call Applied Dreams. Working with Jan-Christoph Zoels, Alie Rose, Yaniv Steiner and Myriel Milicevic from IDII and with great guests from Laboratoire de Recherch Informatique, Jean-Baptiste Labrune and Aurélien Tabard.

My project’s enemy no 1 the iPod nano was hacked by the Technology review team at MIT.

“there are 22 clues in your mule”

“devil dust bunnies”

“dont lose Howard Hughes”

“why should i wear this cuff and lock myself in the subway?”

“tongue sound propagation”

This is a body suit crafted from cell phone keypads, large headphones and is draped from head to toe with wires.

via WMMNA

A Coolhunting post showing an odd knitted digestive system.

“disclaimer: Despite this sentence this presentation is apolitical”

“bloglosphere”

“mulecular urban ludic entity”

I had my thrid thesis review today and had a lot of great feedback from some very interesting guests…

In the panel today were Casey Reas, Danny Stillion from IDEO, Gillian Crampton Smith and Phil Tabor and Jozeph Forakis.

From the vague to the weird, welcome to the IDII presentation critique….im not inlcuding authors out of respect… and they know who they are…

“Standardization is so 20th century”

“Strangely gynecological”

” You’ve designed pantyliners”

Ok so we finally got the news, that unfortunatey, we wont make it to CHI in Montréal this year. Dave Chiu, Haiyan Zhang and myself had entered a paper about our service design class project Fresh Start which we will be documenting quite soon online.

Ok so if i need to put myself on a public schedule to get things done, then so be it… by the end of the week i should have:

- video prototypes up (one of the crowd-surfing model, the other of a possible “contagious model”)
- physical prototypes of the patchwork model, the contagious model, the dandelion model, the paper model
- beginning of interface design solution for the dandelion model, see if any other model could be started as well…

ARGHHHH…. to be done by the end of friday….

I don’t know where im going with you at the moment. I want you to be too many things i think m trying to stuff you with too many features, feature-creep some would say. I know i have the tendancy to try to solve the worlds problems with my projects, in small doses, but i can’t do that with you, i have to leabr to be patient with you. I haven’t been working on you enough to be honest with you, haven’t been giving you the time you deserve, am not letting you grow. Im working on you in this abstract way, being too cerebral with you, i need to see you as a piece of rock that i have to sculpt bit by bit. I don’t have that much time left with you and this scares me, will i be able to achieve what i want with you?

What do i want by he way? How do i want to change the world with this? I want to design objects which people will cherish because they use the natural physical interactions of that shape to have an effect on it AND on the virtual content they are handling as well. Inversely i would like the virtual interactions to influence how this is displayed on a physical level. I am seeking for the holy graal of interaction design, convergence between the physical world and the virtual content, the marriage of both for better or for worse. Can i achieve this?

Ok so i’m in a tight spot in my thesis and my mom told me about a technique she’s using in her thesis at the moment where she writes to her thesis, claiming that this is useful to see the big picture and solve problems as they arise… so let’s try this…

I laughed and cried in the 2 days at LIFT but the best things were the quotes i can still remember…

“…now with fewer desirable features” – Cory Doctorow

“there needs to be terms of abuse for everything because otherwise nothing gets done” – Bruce Sterling

“Europe has been more connected by EasyJet than by the European Union” – Thomas Mygdal

“BONO (Branding Of Non-governmental Organizations)” – David Galipeau