The degree project is calling! And I bet all of you are already doing extensives researches and brainstorming. I realized that I might have to change my workflow, after bookmarking about a thousands links and pasting all the good sounding quotes by “important people” into a word document.
I am pretty excited about Google Notebook… its a great and easy way to collect information, links, pictures and quotes from the web (and never lose a link to the source of a quote again). Download the Firefox plugin and get started. Keep your research online (I am working on it from home, but sometimes I stumble upon important information during work)
Please help me! and tell me: what are your favourite tools to do research? (post in comments)
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a really awesome way to sketchÂÂ
obviously everyone has thought about it but they have made it real
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This is from Jannes actually :)
A quite funny sketch from Saturday Night Live ridiculing the incredible interaction and visualization features of CNN’s multitouch screen, also called the Magic Wall.
The video can be watched either here or at nbc.com. The screen bit starts somewhere at 5:30.
(P.S I tried uploading the non-Youtube video to this site using the html code, but it didnt work. Help anyone?)
Is ‘Good Design’ an asphyxiating dogma?
Design is a peculiar activity: It’s a creative process, but a process that subscribes to and reinforces certain restrictive attitudes. It can be rigid and self-policing, since a profession that earns its living by discerning what is good and bad must necessarily become judgmental. Ultimately this judgmental nature creates and enshrines certain points of view, which left unchallenged, become dogma. Today, one could argue that this dogma, generally predicated on longstanding ideas of ‘rightness’ and ‘beauty’ is choking the profession down, and worse yet, stifling its creativity as it faces some truly great problemsâ€â€problems which if handled with new thinking and true creativity, will define the substance, practice and contribution of a generation of designers.
(The author Tad Toulis is the Creative Director here at Teague and a very inspiring speaker.)
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This may be non-design related, but I love the presentation and the core content is useful for LIFE!
Futurism, science fiction/fact, and some general weirdness in the form of essays, videos, diagrams and more. The content is really well packaged and presented.
SpaceCollective.
PowerCursor is toolkit for Flash that ables you to build visual simulated force feedback interfaces.
Check out the examples or download the software.
A neat website using PowerCursor.
Interview with the co-founder of the beloved Processing software:
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Ben Fry, co-developer of the Processing open-source programming environment and recent winner of the prestigious Muriel Cooper Award for interactive digital communication, discusses the ever-increasing crossover between art, design, and technology.
On the BusinessWeek website:http://www.businessweek.com/mediacenter/podcasts/innovation/innovation_10_28_08.htm
Found via Core77:http://www.core77.com/blog/technology/ben_fry_on_the_intersection_of_art_and_technology_11603.asp
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Thanks Lin Tao for contributing to the blog! If you want to put in a youtube video simply write [youtube=here_paste_the_youtube_url] in the text field when you write the post.
Blendie is like the opposite of the ubiquitouness, where the machines must talk the same language as us.
Kelly Dobson made a blender to react when you speak it’s language.
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The video is crazy and hilarious.
Website for blendie.
Update! Newsflash!
Interview with Kelly Dobson
On April 23, Donald Norman gave a talk at the IIT Institute of Design in Chicago on the “Design of Future Thingsâ€Â.
80 minutes of great discussion on service design, queue, optimization, experiences and more.
video (mp4 678 mb)
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