Media Evolution and Me
Just wanted to preserve for posterity, the fact that I’ll be speaking at Media Evolution on August 24-25th with an awesome lineup of speakers.
Almost surreal to think I’d be on the same panel but I’m thanking my lucky stars and the angels that guard me. 
I just returned from the IxD Bauhaus event for which I was invited as a speaker.
The event was an amazing experience with a crowd of about 200+ designers, developers, students and other creative minds from the Pacific Northwest all gathered together to discuss an important revolution. I was humbled that the seed for thought was planted by the article I wrote on Johnny Holland called ‘The IxD Bauhaus – What Happens Next?’. For this massive honor, I have Mike Kruzeniski (Windows Phone), Vicky Teinaki (Johnny Holland) and my colleagues at Ergonomidesign to thank.
The poster from the IxD Bauhaus event -
My slides from the IxD Bauhaus Event are embedded below -
Very excited to see the Windows 8 UI. It’s using a Metro-inspired look and feel which is long overdue and will definitely change how we use PC’s.
More from All Things Digital 9.
A very thorough dissection of the Windows 8 UI exists here.
Just stumbled upon this great interview. Very insightful but it just sounds so much wiser coming from Bill Moggridge himself.
This is an interview with Bill Moggridge where he talks about how we can make design that really matters. The interview is made by Designboost and is one of three made this spring on the topic Design Beyond Design, which is also the theme for Designboost 2011.
Bill Moggridge is the director of the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, the only museum in the United States devoted exclusively to historic and contemporary design. Bill designed the first laptop computer, the Grid Compass, launched in 1982. He describes his career as having three phases, first as a designer with projects for clients in ten countries, second as a co-founder of IDEO where he developed design methods for interdisciplinary design teams, and third as a spokesperson for the value of design in everyday life, writing, presenting and teaching, supported by the historical depth and contemporary reach of the museum.
Bill Moggridge recently relased the book, video and website Designing Media.
Check out the earlier interview in the series with designer Arik Levy.
http://davidreport.com/201104/bill-moggridge-interview-theme-design-design/
As someone who is finicky about keeping fingerprints, cheek-stains and other stains away from my screens, this image made me laugh.
found via the Umea IxD blog.
Yet another surface, multi-touch peddling future concept which shows a clean, simple World where everything just happens seamlessly. I like the utopian aspiration, but find it hard to believe that we’re going to interact with screens as much. I think the future’s going to have a lot of objects, gestures, screens and a lot of other stuff we havent yet imagined.
We’ll probably be using them in combination and based on the activities that we’re performing.
“The Institute for Digital Biology researches next steps in the evolution of the internet, where websites and services develop into living creatures.”
This scenario lives in the mind of Walewijn den Boer, graduated from KABK in 2010.
During the exhibition, visitors were able to feed a colony of microscopical pop-up creatures, save Chinese websites from a pageview-shortage, preserve an Amazone tribe from extinction by subscribing to its homepage and view a short documentary on how the living internet established itself
via http://www.nextnature.net/2011/01/the-institute-for-digital-biology/
‘Light Lovin’ from Rahul Sen on Vimeo.
A short film to spread light and love in the World.
My first stop-motion experiment done in collaboration with Lena Edman (while she was with us at Ergonomidesign).
We were a bit exhausted with the ‘why’ and ‘constraints of client work, and decided to just do something for fun.
Hopefully this turned out alright!
