There’s been a little of bit of a talk lately about service (wopps i’m sorry experience) design and what it means to have multiple touch points and how this shapes a user experience. What’s perhaps left aside here is how important the quality of those individual touch points is. As a designer and business owner,… Continue reading The quality of touch points
Media managment skills
1864 Back in the days, if you were sent off to boarding school, you’d have no other means of communications with your friends and family other than through writing. So the written word was something treasured. You’d write to your mother, knowing she would read the letter out loud to the rest of your family.… Continue reading Media managment skills
Quote of the day
Massimo introducing me to someone on Skype. “Please meet alexandra deschamps-sonsino the name sounds very fancy but she’s dangerous ” sigh.
When a chair just isn't a chair
I’ve often said that in the wonderful world of product design, a sure sign that you’ve made it is that your chair design gets produced by a company like Flos. There’s a certain top-down process here where a designer will decide what context a chair lives in and the company sells that dream to the… Continue reading When a chair just isn't a chair
Quote of the day
“Individual designers are liable for the damages incurred by the play of their games” Found in Picnic games submission document.
Entertainement of the day
I always deeply hated the Cabbage Patch Kids as a child so this seems somewhat comforting :) via 7Gadgets
Looking for design: 24karrots
(I’m completing this series even after having left the country as some of my interviewees have been fairly busy. There are 2 more left and the last one is the best, so i hope you’ll bear with me :) ) I had the pleasure of speaking with Marie-Eve Bélanger who is one of the 4… Continue reading Looking for design: 24karrots
H3 update: Moritz Waldemeyer
Just a quick update regarding the upcoming Hardcore Hardware Hacking weekend workshop I’m helping organise: We have the great pleasure of having Moritz Waldemeyer come by to do a 30 minute presentation of his work to the workshop participants on Sunday morning. Very exciting. if you don’t know him or his work, he’s behind some… Continue reading H3 update: Moritz Waldemeyer
Looking for design: Web map of Montreal
Lovely map of the Montreal web scene, which shows there’s tons happening on that level. via Montreal Tech Watch. Thanks Heri! (I bitched about the first map being based on the London Underground and he was kind enough to make another one , hurrah! )
Looking for design: Design and Linguistics
When you live in Montreal, one of the things that permeates all levels of society, and even design in my opinion, is the linguistic landscape. For those of you that have never had the pleasure of visiting this great country, Canada is legally a bilingual country: french and english are the 2 official languages. All… Continue reading Looking for design: Design and Linguistics