Saturday, August 15, 2009
on ustream.tv
Here is your space that you build and create
From Jeff Veen’s blog and the web2.0 expo. Video: Designing for Big Data
Verbal quotes from the video:
find a story in the data
visual access to dimensions in that data
remove everything that isn’t telling the story
control their own web experience
empower people to tell their own stories
design the application to tell their own story
using the data as [...]
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Google Maps API for flash demo gallery supplied by Dan for the LP project. I need to spend some time browsing here.
Sunday, November 23, 2008
I caught up with BC recently in a follow up to his presentation as part of the affective atlas project here at RMIT. He introduced me to open street map
OpenStreetMap is a free editable map of the whole world. It is made by people like you.
Along with some other resources including the Pan America Institute [...]
Friday, November 14, 2008
A conference that explores the intersection between design and cinema:
…while interrogating the place of design disciplines within cinema. The attention drawn by this conference showed the necessity of evaluating the knowledge that existed in the intersection of these two disciplines.
The theme for the 2008 conference:
Theoretical studies have become more and more interested in [...]
Received a link to this online design thesis openp2pdesign.org_1.1. I like the way this thesis has been re-designed for online distribution and translated from Italian into Spanish and English to increase the spread.
openp2pdesign.o rg was born in order to publish, disseminate and develop further my thesis, and to stimulate on it a collective discussion. The [...]
http://www.usabilitynews.com/news/article4802.asp
Which came first, the Interaction or the Design?, Source: Interaction-Design.org, 18 June 2008
Submitted by Mads Soegaard, by Jonas Lowgren
Interaction Design” refers to the shaping of interactive products and services with a specific focus on their use. Broadly speaking, there are two main senses of the concept, coming out of different intellectual traditions but increasingly converging [...]
I went to a workshop last week titled ‘HOW TO INVENT! Pink Diggers, Rude Signs and Driving on the Wrong Side’, given by Professor Tom Barker from the London Royal College of Art (RCA). The blurb form the workshop flyer:
As companies increasingly compete in giant global markets, innovation and design is gaining greater value [...]
All this got me thinking about a design where categories are tags becoming a simple tag cloud like in the archives section.
The tags on the left and right become clip titles instead loosing a level. Categories are wiped. Categories in this interface are like making a batch or set in Flickr. The user selects [...]
I have got most of the clips into the ‘Glasshouse Birdman’ prototype and are now starting to look at how the categories and tags work in terms of how I would like the user to engage with the themes that have emerged in the content. I realised that clips could be kept in separate categories [...]
