This is Alan Chochinov’s presentation at IxD10 (Savannah).
Allan Chochinov-Girls and Women: Objects Lessons in the Primacy of Interaction from Interaction Design Association on Vimeo.
I posted the video to the blog for 2 reasons
a) It is hugely inspiring. To quote 4 key learnings by Chochinov (during his course at the SVA, New York) in [...]
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I love that they use an ethnographic approach to identify trends. Reminds me of the movie ‘The Gods Must Be Crazy’ and the way the Coca Cola bottle was perceived by a bunch of tribesfolk in remote Africa. Our urbanfolk arent so different! View the trailer below.
via article titled ‘Authenticity’ from the blog of Lebbeus Woods.
This image reminded me of an article I read sometime ago called ‘The End of the Classical’ by Peter Eisenman
I loved this poster because it illustrates how notions of ‘experiencing the classical’ have deconstructed themselves. We’re living in an era where rehashing is the classical. McDonald’s, [...]
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The infographic movie “The State of the Internet” by creative agency Jess3 conveys exactly what is meant by its title, with a special focus on highlighting a lot of numbers and statistics, ranging from the general demographics of Internet usage to launch dates of popular online social network sites.
You can watch the movie [...]
This will be the first time I watch my mentor and friend Mike Kruzeniski of Microsoft EXG Group present.
Usually my chats with him were on gchat and he would tell me to be less poetic! This is so cool to watch and learn from.
Building a new product is hard. In the transition from design to engineering, the subjective [...]
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MWC2010 Barcelona
We went to MWC Barcelona 2010 for the first and second days.
During our stay there, my colleague JC Fantechi and I covered almost everything we wanted to see. The following paragraphs are some reflections and experiences gathered during my time there. I’m very grateful to my colleagues at Ergonomidesign for having [...]
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Albert Shum, one of the key thinkers behind the new Windows Phone 7 Series design, admits that 12 years at Nike doesn’t sound like an obvious springboard to becoming director of Microsoft’s Mobile Experience Design team.
There’s a very interesting video on the blog (follow link [...]
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Great interaction design is a delicious soup. You boil a variety of different ingredients and spices in the right proportion, and voila – pure bliss! Unlike other branches of design, however, it’s extremely hard to write a recipe for interaction design. By its very nature, the interaction design process needs to be fluid and dynamic.
Interaction design tingles the complete experience over [...]
This is a discussion thread from my Facebook profile. It was started by a simple provocation/question. The response was totally overwhelming!
Rahul Sen Provocation: The ‘Like’ button is like a check-mark on Facebook. It lets people know you’ve read, seen or appreciated something. Facebook made us rethink the notion of the word ‘friend’ and now…’like’. What’s [...]