Back from interaction10, the annual conference hosted by the Interaction Design Association (IxDA) in Savannah, Georgia. A good occasion to visit the deep south (aka "dirty south 2) that I did not know at all. More observation on this at the end of this post, let's focus first in lessons learned a...
Slides from interaction2010 talk
The annotated slides from my talk "Design and Designed Failures: From Observing Failurs To Provoking Them" at ixda interaction10 are now available on Slideshare. The video of the talk is here as well. Failures are often overlooked in design research. The talk addressed this issue by describing two...
Charting circulation
"Charting the Beatles" is a project that I find highly intriguing. One of the visualization that I find highly interesting for that matter is the "Self Reference" representation. As described by the authors: "The lyrics of the Beatles include a number of references to their own previous songs. Thi...
Those Magnificent Men in Their Failing Machines
...or how a "litany of failed aircrafts" is a good metaphor of design iterations. Read in "Hailing, Failing, and Still Sailing" by Richard Saul Wurman, a chapter of "Design Disasters: Great Designers, Fabulous Failures, and Lessons Learned": "It made me think about the beginning of that wonderful ...
Supermodern spaces. Places to go through
An interesting definition of "supermodernism" found in Desolation Jones, a comic book series written by Warren Ellis: "Supermodernism. The fact that we don't build places to just be in anymore. We build places to go through. To wait in. To be transient. You ever watch 'Cribs' on MTC? All those pop...
Another apple "pad" grabbed my attention
Yes, there's the iPad but it's a different Apple "pad" product that grabbed my attention. This morning, I received this morning a package from Honk-Kong with this curious gamepad that was designed for the Pippin, a console/multimedia platform designed by Apple and produced by Bandai back in 1995. P...
Mobile to-do list?
A to-do list found inserted between bike spokes, found in Geneva this morning. The urban scout is left to his/her own hypotheses about why this sheet of paper ended up here. ...
Widget-ized wristwatch
Circulation of the widget-meme into *other* touch-interfaces. ...
All the movements made in the space of one year by a student
The famous drawing extracted from "Theory of the Dérive" (Théorie de la Dérive) by Guy Debord. As explained by the author: "In his study Paris et l’agglomération parisienne (Bibliothèque de Sociologie Contemporaine, P.U.F., 1952) Chombart de Lauwe notes that “an urban neighborhood is determined no...
Microsoft Research Social Computing Symposium 2010
Last week, I was at the Social Computing Symposium at the ITP in New York; a small event sponsored by Microsoft Research’s Creative Systems Group that "brings together academic and industry researchers, developers, writers, and influential commentators in order to open new lines of communication a...