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.
Archive for February, 2006
Task for this week
February 7, 2006Ok 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….
Dear thesis,
February 7, 2006I 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?
Tell me about your mother…
February 6, 2006Ok 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…
LIFT quotes…
February 6, 2006I 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
LIFT corrections…
February 6, 2006As i was live-blogging this whole conference i went back to my posts to correct the spelling mistakes and unfinished sentences… apologies for those of you who may have felt insulted 
LIFT: Robert Scoble: Participating in the new business conversation
February 3, 2006The famous Microsoft blogger is talking about corporate blogging.
LIFT: Euan Semple: Working in a wired world
February 3, 2006Talking about the working environment and efficiency in the workplace. He used an online forum called talk.gateway to tap into the company and what the employees were interested in.
When decisions get questioned within the business. eg. The 3D weather graphics in England. The decision was really discussed and criticized and the person responsible for it decided to engage with the people to explain his decision and his credibility went up.
When they made a show on Jerry Springer and the platform acts as a holder of the public or internal opinions. This is democratization and allows people whatever their position is to have a real opinion thus this becomes a way for people to do business.
Connect.gateway
Have a taxonomy that allows people to find people with the same type of knowledge and skills in common, interest groups. This allows workshops to be formed from within the company. The other issue being able to find people with skills the company needs. This came in handy when looking for a Dutch translator, where they ended up using this forum to find people who spoke Dutch which came back with 12 people’s names who translated everything for them.
Using blogs
eg. Richard Sambrook
Using wikis: have a tremendous group impact.
This all leads to a complete shift away from traditional documentation techniques and knowledge management.
LIFT: Hugh Mcleod: Global Microbranding
February 3, 2006Goes into talking about the relationship between advertising and blogging. How would you make money out of blogging and making a career out of it. What are the advantages in terms of business to blog, to talk about other competitors, to be transparent, honest and informative about your field.
The presentation is basically here
LIFT: Thomas Sevcik:InnovationLab
February 3, 2006From arthesia.com
When theme parks, think tanks, and companies collide.
innovation has become a crucial success factor for companies but they are facing challenges: silos, “play” is still not questioned and there is no time to focus. When theme parks and think tanks come together, they are creating “instant”. Theme-parks are a unity of space design, content, and experience (museums, art). Think tanks are the fastest tools for science, publishing, spin, media and communication. (In 1970 there were 24 and in 2006 there are now 1700).
InnovationLabs are temporarily installed environments where people from different background and divisions come together for a limited time to work on specific areas.
Temporary/ guerilla/instant/open(to invite people you wouldn’t have thought of inviting)/play.
InnovationLab etiquette: collaboration, co-ompetition, open source.
InnovationLab takeout: new ideas, new products, new friends.
BusinessWeek: MoshPits of Creativity
Deutsche Bank installation: (next to frankfurt Airport)
InnovationLab outlook: early stage, this results in either bullshit or a killer app, more and more around innovation/communication. This can be set anywhere.