So many people see an oppressive interface and say ‘Oh, I don’t understand technology!’, when a more appropriate reaction would be: the sons of bitches!
Ted Nelson (2010) POSSIPLEX: Movies, Intellect, Creative Control, My Computer Life and the Fight for Civilization.
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got handed this today. It’s a loyalty card for a local café.
Interesting thing about it is that they make it really easy for you to get your first “freebee”: by giving you 4 purchases on the card you only have to purchase 1 coffee to then experience the satisfaction of a free coffee.
nice example of [...]
Yesterday I presented our research on using data visualization inside the social web at Web Directions South. Here’s the slides from the presentation, and an associated report we published for the research.. You can read the notes with the presentation over at slideshare
After yesterdays chat with Dan Hill, the EdDirections workshop, and werock event last night, I’ve been thinking about how design moves out of the studio and into the cubes & labs.
so – after a few weeks getting my head very damaged, I’m feeling a lot better about were I am wrt a meta discourse on interaction design. Highlights from the past few weeks for me were:
Herbert Simon’s use of the word “cookbooky” in Sciences of the Artificial
Richard Buchanan’s “placements” and subsequent alignments I started to [...]
At our recent ixda board retreat (caveat – I’m an IxDA Director) there was overwhelming agreement that we (the org, network, & field) were at a tipping point. Technological culture has extended to affect so much of our experience*, and it’s clear that Design is going to play a pivotal role in helping us thrive [...]
We’ve just published an article, The Social Life of Visualization, over at JohnnyHolland.
The article introduces our framework for Social Data Visualization, and gives a good intro to the idea of object centered social systems. Let us know what you think!
Today we launched the first major public outcome of a project I’ve been leading for the last year, a site documenting our Social Visualization framework. You can check it out at http://socialvizpatterns.info
Decided to sit down this afternoon and get jiggy with processing. For my first sketch I visualized the recent fundraiser IxDA ran to rise money for our next-gen infrastructure development.. check it out and let me know what you think!
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