A superb example of interface that maps the process and the buttons to be employed. Although the affordance is complex (a button used to move parts), the signage is relevant to understand the possibilities. ...
Stickers
Beaming alien? Wifi and space invaders around? An intriguing combination. Especially this amazing number of barcodes meant to be used by the facility management company in Paris Gare de Lyon. The minimal b&w sticker is quite well integrated with the seriousness of the barcodes. ...
Lift 09 poster
Snowed under work lately (foresight project about the future of the web, gestural controllers research, lift, writing a book about locative media), I have less time to blog but it's worth having a look at the new Lift poster: Explained by Bread and Butter themselves: A city by night, an impressive...
Technonomadic work
Necessary tool for two-user audioconference using an iphone. Basic artifact for 21st century work process. ...
Pavement life
Seen in Paris (I spent half of my time in this city lately) Signage on the sidewalk, dead birds and homeless people living in tents. Or, on other words: designed artifacts for city-dwellers, animal partners which accidently did not manage to live in good terms with (driving) humans, and people l...
Design-Science relationships
In Designerly Ways of Knowing: Design Discipline versus Design Science, Nigel Cross interestingly discusses the epistemological concerns of design research. Using his own typology he tries to differentiate the design-science relationships: (a) scientific design, (b) design science, and (c) a scienc...
Real-Life treasure hunt on the Nintendo DS
An intriguing use of the positioning system of Nintendo DS wifi is described on Gamasutra. Creative director and lead designer Justin Leingang (at Aspyr) is working on an original Nintendo DS title that uses each player's DS to create "a real-life treasure hunt,": "The project, which bears the wor...
lottery game interface
For lots of people, this is a very common game interface. The picture shows a device usually employed in France to verify whether your lottery ticket is a winning one. You have to swipe the ticket below this light and the results are then displayed on a tiny screen above. Minimal game interface! ...
Bandai poking box
One of the weirdest electronic toy I've played with so far is certainly this "tuttuki bako" (tuttuki box) poking box by BANDAI. It consists in a basic box with a LCD screen, a cute yellow button and a hole on one side of the box. To play the games, you simply have to insert your finger in this hol...
Internet of Things day
The Lift team is helping other conferences with their program, advising on speakers and format. For instance we are organizing a whole day in Sierre, Switzerland about the Internet of Things on January 30th. With speeches from Daniel Kaplan (from the french think tank FING, who brilliantly wrapped ...