February 2012
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Fragments of Ricocheting Thoughts: Myopia →
From my fellow SVA IXDer, Tony Chu:
An idea is not a design
A design is not a prototype
A prototype is not a program
A program is not a product
A product is not a business
A business is not profits
Profits are not an exit
And an exit is not happiness.
Tony got this from Mike Sellers, via a Quora post.
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The Star Wars Saga: Suggested Viewing Order →
Fellow Star Wars geeks: please read this. I sincerely think this could be a great way to integrate the prequels while maintaining the lure and legacy of the original trilogy.
Plus, it’s dubbed Machete Order. Awesome.
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Guri Venstad: When strangers become humans →
gurivenstad:
It’s early morning and I’m on the subway. Everyone in the carriage is looking empty out in the air in front of them and trying to keep to themselves. Suddenly, a cup of coffee flies through the air and lands on my lap. The woman next to me looks just as surprised as I probably did, and we both…
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Week Notes #4: Feb 17-23, 2012
Let’s go through the list of what I said I was going to do and what I actually got done this week:
Plan for Week 4:
My current prototype documentation, with full thoughts about its success/failure, will go up this weekend. Revised delivery date: EOD Saturday
User stories
Use cases
Content strategy
Life cycle journey Revised delivery date: Monday
Take a break from...
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Chatttr →
Dave showed me Chatttr, a platform one of his friends created that is kind of like Twitter, except you can be totally anonymous, and your messages aren’t archived for any longer than 24 hours.
From stewd.io:
Chatttr is transient forum for chatting and drawing with no logins and a very limited history. The Internet’s public parks have been replaced by private gardens. Private gardens...
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Laying the Foundation
What I’m making
I’ve been posting for over a month now about the actual process of making my project, but I don’t think I’ve ever concisely stated what I’m doing.
So.
I’m building a social platform for sharing short bursts of creative energy that has been captured by handwriting.
The goal of the platform is to provide an easy means of public...
The Rise of the New Groupthink - NYTimes.com →
This article is completely in line with my experience of the open desk environment. It’s why I often find myself at the studio at 2:26am (and later), alone, and working. Late nights are when I can finally get some peace and quiet, finally concentrate, finally get into the flow.
I once got gasps and looks of horror when I suggested an office try individual workstations (wouldn’t that...
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WatchThe Polargraph: A Drawing Machine Whose Pen Strokes Become Pixels via FastCo Design.
The average person looks at their phone 150 times... →
Addiction is scary. So is being average.
Via Instapaper on textually.org.
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Context-aware transformation.
Hand tools operate on objects. For example, a hammer operates on a nail. We can also imagine writing tools that can change form and function between a pen, a brush, and a stylus, based on the type of surface being drawn or written upon: a sheet of paper, a canvas, or a touchscreen. The way a user holds the tool can also inform how the tool transforms: The way we hold a knife and a fork is...
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Tweets on Paper, by Sam Potts →
Liz passed this along to me. There’s something quite enchanting about tweets written in the hand of their authors.
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What have you learned about yourself through the... →
Via Erin.
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Week Notes #3: Feb 10-16, 2012
The week started with a bang during my advisor meeting on Friday the 10th, and has finished with a bit of a whimper.
While discussing my handwritten tweets prototype experiment, Dan and I happen upon the idea of simply creating a platform for handwritten tweets. Excitement ensues, and ideas about who will use it and how, and how to build it or prototype it quickly follow. I tweet the following:
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I think I'm flattered?
@allisonacs Someone thinks of you as the love child of Liz Lemon, Leslie Knope, and Emma Watson. Now that’s a threesome.#officecupid— R/GA (@RGA) February 14, 2012
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An insight from an interview with my sister
Jody doesn’t write very often. She’s not a habitual or ritualistic journaler, and she doesn’t take notes on paper very much.
Except:
I don’t usually write little notes about thoughts and that sort of thing though, unless it’s like a really good thought.
In other words, it’s not worth embodying—not worth capturing in your own hand—unless it is, by your...
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The Methodology of Design & Science
See the full-size diagram.
After finishing a week of handwriting my tweets, I struggled to find a way to document my first prototype. I realize that I should have this figured out by now, since I’m in my last semester at MFA Interaction Design, but—I’m ashamed to admit—so much of my documentation has been adhoc, and only formalized once it was time for a final presentation.
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Made Better in Japan →
Imagine going into an espresso bar, as I did in Tokyo, ordering a single shot, and being told that it’s not on offer. The counter at No. 8 Bear Pond may feature the shiniest, spiffiest, newest La Marzocco, as well as a Rube Goldberg–esque water-filtration system, but the menu, which lists lattes and Americanos, makes no mention of espresso or cappuccino.
“My boss won’t let me make...
Side Project Moodboard →
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Mark W. Smith: This year's killer app -- pen and... →
The takeaway:
Freeing yourself of constraints: There’s no app for that.
Via Dan.
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http://hand.writtentweets.com/ →
There’s a zeitgeist.
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Week Notes #2: Feb 2-9, 2012
This week was little more tame. I’ve moved out of research gathering, and pushed into my first real prototype, as well as created an implementation plan for the rest of the semester. I expect the plan to be constantly evolving. Here we go:
Created an implementation plan, first on paper and post-its, and then moved that into iCal and Teux Deux. Overwhelming would be a word I’d use to...
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