A quick visit to EPFL last week in Lausanne gave me the opportunity to observe and test the new QR-code system that enable to get some information about the tram schedule. The service works pretty well but it's rather the little poster showed on the picture above that raised my attention. What is...
Lift lab research agency
It seems that these times are quite active with different announcements. As usual, some projects stay below the radar for a while and pop up here and there. Of course, some are bigger than others. Aside from the Lift conference, Laurent Haug, Fabien Girardin and myself created Lift lab, an indepen...
About Don Norman's take on "design research"
Reading Technology First, Needs Last by Don Norman the other day echoed a lot with recent discussions I had with clients, recent panel invitations, discussions with Julian and meetings last week with people such as Rémy. To put it shortly, Norman claims that design research (i.e., to him, it refers...
Visual interpretation of A Thousands Plateaus
via, this highly curious drawings by Marc Ngui as interpretation of the first two chapters of A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schzophrenia by Deleuze and Guattari: Why do I blog this? sunday morning venture on the Interwebs often leads me to this sort of inspiring content. ...
Hardware in, hardware out
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Lift 2010 in Geneva
We've just launched the new website of the upcoming Lift 2010 edition in Geneva. The event will revisit the myths about connected people: "Lift10 will explore the most overlooked aspect of innovation: people. Known in the techno-parlance as users, consumers, clients, participants, prosumers, citiz...
Phone-clock mix
My interest in old phones as well as interface that tells you time has been attracted to this utterly weird telephone found at a flea market in Paris. What's curious here is that the device itself is a mix of a phone and a clock but, as we can see, it doesn't go fairly well: The numbers are set i...
Co-presence in the 21st century
Two persons in the same place, as represented on the Foursquare interface. A depiction of co-presence mediated by technology. Co-presence, as described by Zhao can refer to the sense of being together with other people in a remote or a shared virtual environment. To refer back to Goffman, it's a f...
You are here / We are there
Why do I blog this? An interesting add-on to a previous discussion about "you are here" signage: the inclusion of the destination next to the "you are here" sign, as well as the use of speech bubbles. ...
Autopsies: The Afterlife of Dead Objects
(A Panasonic 8-tracks music player found last week at trashed next to the flea market in Geneva) Morning read on "Material World" (found via): "Autopsies: The Afterlife of Dead Objects This project explores how objects die. Just as the twentieth century was transformed by the advent of new forms o...