Most of the research about people in HCI and interaction design focuses on technology usage. This is all good and there are lot of things to get from such studies. However, it's also important to take this issue the other way around: non-usage of technologies is relevant as well. Researchers in STS...
"The World As Seen From New York’s 9th Avenue"
While discussing the Here and There project by BERG with Etienne, he pointed me on this great New-Yorker cover from 1976 by Saul Steinberg. Entitled "The World As Seen From New York’s 9th Avenue", is directed towards the West (Europe is absent as if the authors wanted to turn is back to it) with t...
A bunch of game controllers
A bunch of stuff about game controllers is a new project I recently started with Laurent Bolli from Bread and Butter. The aim of the project is to focus and analyze "game pads" in terms of historical evolution as well as meaningful issues regarding their design. We collect lots of game-pads and wi...
@ and interweb idioms
My fascination towards the use of web-related symbols always leads me to spot occurrences such as the one shown here. Seen in Lyon this week, the pictures depicts the use of the at sign in two interesting configurations. If we look carefully at the idioms that are created here, we notice a naive-...
Broken RFID
or how to make users aware that they cannot swipe their RFID card on a tag reader. Seen at EPFL, Lausanne. ...
Mountain cues
The presence of patina on mountain rocks is an interesting "footsteps in the snow" sign: the activity of people modify the environment, which in turn reveal relevant cues for other persons. Especially when hiking in a rocky environment. It allows to find your way and avoid unnoticeable crevasse an...
The Reflective Practitioner by Donald Schön
The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action by Donald Schön was a good summer read. The book was highly relevant to me for two reasons: (1) the case studies themselves were interesting (especially the architect one, which is related to my interest in design), (2) Schön's objectiv...
Street signage complexity
Seen in Chania, Crete. Someone there should read about cognitive load and signage. ...
Is the future about jetpacks or curious-but-ordinary things?
(Albert Robida's vision of the future in 1890) Last june, I participated in a panel at the i-realize conference in Torino with Bruce Sterling and Geoff Manaugh. The starting point of the discussion was a short presentation I gave which resulted from a workshop I organized the day before about how ...
SXSW 2010 Proposal about Design Fiction
Julian proposed a panel for SXSW about Design Fiction at the following url: http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/5066. Feel free to vote on the platform if you're interested in the topic. It's called "Design Fiction: Using Props, Prototypes and Speculation In Design" and here's the summary: "Thi...