Nokia recently got the folks from Aardman to produce a nice and tiny stop-motion animation film title Dot. using their new N8 phone. Sure it’s to market their new product, but the film is quite nice, and the Making Of is surely very interesting, especially for the IxD2 students who went through the trouble of making stop-frame animation in the Experience Prototyipng course.
Great process and very nicely executed production. It’s not technology, it’s what you do with it.
via Shapeways
The design team for Windows Phone is expanding and we are looking for great UX and Visual Designers. If you are interested, send me an email.
About Us:
The Mobile Studio is a multidisciplinary team whose charter is to design world-class end-to-end experiences that are desirable, thoughtful, consistent, and easy-to-use to the Windows Phone platform. Our goal is to ensure full integration of brand, industrial design, user interface, graphic design, usability, and business strategy.
Some people say we are just at the beginning of a new time with a data driven world. the internet enabled us to make all sorts of data public, websites like wikipedia and facebook collect unbelievable amount of information and even governments have started to put their data online. not to image what will happen once the world wide mobile sensor network comes alive (your cellphone :D)
Mint.com is a website that keeps track of your daily debit and credit card spendings, but it also aggregates data from its 4 million users. They just opened up their data to the public. here is the announcement and you can try it yourself on http://data.mint.com/
We’ve already seen how Mint data can be used to tell stories about consumer spending and the economy. Now, whenever you want to know which businesses are trending or which bar is buzzing, you can do so yourself.
The real challenge however is how to tell people about this data, make it available so its easy to understand and use for everybody. and that exactly why we need Interaction Designers. Data Visualization is just the first step… and that’s why I was so fascinated by Qwiki. On Qwiki you search for something and it will tell you about it. It sounds a bit lame, but actually its amazing. it aggregates data from different sources and visualizes everything that it is talking about. just check it out… some examples are already online (its still in alpha). and eventually you will be a able to just search for anything on Qwiki.
School of Art at University of Washington in Seattle is searching for a new Interaction Design Faculty member.
This position is a great opportunity for an interaction designer interested in getting into full-time teaching.
They have (since 2004) been building a series of courses that form a concentration in Interaction Design (see http://www.depts.washington.edu/ixd). As of this year (2010) they have expanded this concentration to a full undergraduate major in the Division of Design. See the UW IxD 2010 Job Ad
Following the kickoff for the mobile hacking course of the experience prototype block for the Second Year IXD’ers, it may well be of interest to study the following experimental take on planting technology on a tree and have it communicate back to the world a series of observation, among them live footage, recording the sounds around it, and qualifying the environment around it (surely there’s a lot of data accumulated by now). It also tweets and has a soundcloud account.
I sincerely hope we never get to a point where we do not relate to nature as having a personality and voice of itself; yet giving this second voice augmented by us, we may all be attent from wherever we want to be. So what happens when we apply this technology to our domestic technology?
Interesting video in the making of this project:
Talking Tree – Making of from Tom on Vimeo.
Everybody has an opinion on Nature. But what about Nature’s opinion?
EOS magazine decided to give Nature the means to talk.
A 100 year old tree, living on the edge of Brussels, was hooked up to a fine dust meter, ozone meter, light meter, weatherstation, webcam and microphone. This equipment constantly measures the tree’s living circumstances. And translates this information into human language. Then, the tree lets the world know how he feels. Follow the life of the talking tree via YouTube, Flickr and Soundcloud. And friend him on Facebook.
These guys made it with out markers and so much better
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The Experience Prototyping course is in full swing and last week, the ADV students joined the IxD2 folks for the a full week of stop-motion workshop. Timo Arnall and Matt Cottam conducted this workshop. Thanks to all for the amazing week!
Enjoy the final videos and preliminary exercises on the project page.
Check out all the other videos.
/Camille
Breaking Mikkos post-o-rama :)
An interesting article fresh from the presses at MIT about Microsoft’s vision in 3D gaming.
Worth a read and a thought.
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I’m thinking AdBlock Plus that would block the ads in the real world. Wearing weird glasses or a cone over my head wouldn’t even bother me.
