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.
Task for this week
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,… Continue reading Task for this week
Dear thesis,
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… Continue reading Dear thesis,
Tell me about your mother…
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…
LIFT quotes…
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… Continue reading LIFT quotes…
LIFT corrections…
As 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
The famous Microsoft blogger is talking about corporate blogging.
LIFT: Euan Semple: Working in a wired world
Talking 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… Continue reading LIFT: Euan Semple: Working in a wired world
LIFT: Hugh Mcleod: Global Microbranding
Goes 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
From 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… Continue reading LIFT: Thomas Sevcik:InnovationLab