My CHI buddy, Matt Weldon, has been ultra-secretive about his fall project, offering only cryptic Facebook and Twitter status messages about his work and job status. Monday, Matt tweeted a link to BoomShuffle, a web-based music streaming service that is likely the reason for the hush-hushedness.
nanowrimo: Dementia 10
He landed in the middle of the snowy wasteland. He arose and said, “Ah, here I am in the middle of the snowy wasteland.” He immediately flew up in the air and flew straight down into the ground where it was warmer on Dementia ten.
He keeps going down and is just about to turn [...]
Design Concept Hook-ups
At Ubicomp this fall, Scott Davidoff—a doctoral student at CMU—presented a design method for rapid exploration of design concepts. Design practice usually involves sketching and prototyping, but Davidoff argues that it is vital to give time in between to exploring user experience. Enter speed dating.
Nanowrimo: Dementia Six’s distant future.
Dementia 6’s distant future:
When The Traveler had finished his job at dementia 6 he went to the distant future of dementia six to help the yeti creatures. He took the form of Electrode, the famed electro-powered superhero who’s best friend is Zauriel, one of Earth’s guardian angels.
He helped the yeti creatures by using [...]
Patience is a virtue. A very big virtue.
Guinness, Honda, and Sony are all examples of businesses willing to pay top dollar for a big payoff with a commercial. Words you don’t want to hear as the designer of these marketing commercials: “Back to 1 for Take 2.”
Designed interruptions
Brian Bailey’s research on alerts and timely interruptsions turned out to be very influential in the way I think about designing technology interventions. Whether intentional or organic, a scheme for well-designed interruptions can improve the perceived quality of the experience.
ClipMarks addiction
I’ll admit it. I’m addicted. ClipMarks turns out to fit very well with my existing Internet habits, and it has been a lot of fun to use. The site—which allows you to copy selected images and text from a web page to put some content with the URL—just got bought by Forbes, a company that has expressed some interest in the community for several months.