Preparing my Interaction Design course at HEAD Geneva about social computing, I received a timely email from Mads Soegaard about an highly relevant series of video about this very topic. It's actually written by Tom Erickson an interaction designer and researcher in the Social Computing Group at IB...
Pre-Internet of Things Objects ID
One of the current obsession consists in observing the meta-data given to things in the physical world. They're generally used to give an ID to a certain artifact (in order to performance maintenance acts) or its status. Some examples recently encountered: Power plugs at London Heathrow: Extensio...
Randomly juxtaposing diagrams of two everyday objects
The Creatomatic by Nova Jiang: "The Creatomatic is a piece of software designed to accelerate the imagination and prompt new inventions. It works by randomly juxtaposing diagrams of two everyday objects from a selection of hundreds. Through free association, the two objects can prompt the inventio...
Lift12 ahead
The release of the Lift poster is always an important step in the preparation of the upcoming conference (Feb 22-24). Unveiled last week, it highlights the evolution of the event as a moment of cross-pollination as shown by how Bread and Butter describes their graphic work for this year: "Lift aim...
Notes from Playful 2011
My super quick notes from the Playful 2011 conference I attended in London last Friday. The main reason I enjoy going to Playful is that it always deal with peculiar aspects of playfulness and game-related technologies. It's more about the culture of play than the problem of the game industry. For ...
Computer-readable stickers?
Seen yesterday in London. I like the evocative and colorful visual, especially on this phone booth. They look like sifteo-turned-into-stickers. ...
"Practicing Theory or: Did Practice Kill Theory?" symposium
An interesting follow-up to the Swiss Design Network Julian an I attended last year is organized in Geneva on November 25 at the Geneva University of Art and Design (HEAD). It's called "Practicing Theory or: Did Practice Kill Theory?": "The Swiss Design Network 2011 Symposium Practicing Theory aims...
Visual representations of Primer's plot
Some visual representations of Primer's plot written, directed, and produced by Shane Carruth: ...
Meerkat and Tuba: serendipitous presentation of digital content
Having a large quantity of pictures on my Flickr account, I enjoy using Photojojo time capsule, a system that send me twice a month photos from a year ago. I like this kind of almost random selection of my past appearing in my (boring) Mail app. Which is why I was intrigued by this design prototype...
Video games with less video
Discussion with colleagues here at the design school about "screenless interaction design" led me to present some projects that I find interesting in the field. It seems that there's starting to be a cluster of projects that aim at creating playful and digital interactions with less emphasis on the...