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El Tormento del Raul Esteban

These are some really MAD videos made by my insane classmate and friend Mikko Pitkänen. He’s rad!
Just wanted to keep them nested in my blog for nesterity.

Objects Lessons in the Primacy of Interaction @chochinov

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 [...]

6 Trends & The Gods Must Be Crazy.

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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.

Learning from @mkruzeniski @cottam @timoarnall @IxD10

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 [...]

More people on Farmville than on Twitter.

Wii Games – E3 2010 – Guitar Hero 5

Fly your helicopter from your mobile phone.

James Bond is so last decade.
With the AR Parrot Drone (discovered via Mike Kruzeniski), I believe we’ll take the baton from Mr.007 when it comes to controlling our helicopters (!) with iPhones.

Read about how it works here.

Spy away! Take no prisoners.

Nokia Ovi signpost in London

This is sheer awesomeness. It delights me when services map themselves onto our environments in such delightful ways. 

For more on Ovi Maps, see here.

Time to think outside the screen?

I saw this link on Matt Jones’s twitterstream. Thought it was a powerful visualization which provoked thought.

Direct link here.

IxD + Agile = A great iterative approach to Design Making.

I’ve recently been working a lot using the Agile method – a method used alot in the software development World, but something that has immense value for us to use as Interaction Designers.

I’m sure alot of my colleagues/alumni are now experiencing this method wherever you are in the World. Please feel free [...]