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The Unknown, The Untried : A tutorial on design research
In case you have not noticed, there is a conference on design research in Seoul from tomorrow, October 20th, 2009. The online registration is already closed, but if you happen to be in Seoul – the onsite registration is still possible. I will be running a full-day tutorial on the exploratory design research, with a ...
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the local wisdom
the heavy snail-shaped door stopper shown in the picture below has an important function in this design office: without it, the door will automatically get shut. mark from experientia explains that it is a typical traditional door design in turin / torino, italy, quite suitable for the cold winter. energy-efficient traditional designs fascinates me. in ...
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zurich in october
i just had a nice conversation about electrolux design lab 2008 with suzanne who has been managing electrolux’s annual design lab, which is a student design competition. this year’s theme is designing home appliances for internet generation. i am told that there were hundreds of high quality entries this year. belonging to the target user ...
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smalltalk on toilets – for interesting08
june 20th was the interesting day! thanks to russell, i got a 3-min talk slot in exchange for the ticket to the event. the day was full of inspiring and interesting talks, thanks to all speakers and participants who made the day shine bright. some video clips seem to be available through the Guardian, if ...
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amsterdam in september
i have two – probably three – reasons to visit amsterdam in september this year. one is mobile hci 2008 where i will be presenting my last project done while i was in helsinki back in 2005 in the industrial case study track: the evolution of mobile phonebook design. the study was not just creating ...
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a confession on being a bubble in the internet of stuff
I am grateful for the opportunity to attend LIFT conference this year (thanks to organizers). What left me thinking after the conference was the access to information, both in terms of breadth and speed. Within minutes, video recordings of talks became available online. The army of healthily pulsating Apple logos seen from the speaker’s stage ...
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name
name Originally uploaded by jabberer Noticed that these things bear my name on them already. It gives a very different feeling to see my name written by someone else on objects. Personalization in a very impersonal way. Maybe i’m not a target consumer for such an approach.
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IAC building
IAC building Originally uploaded by jabberer. Neat with reflection of the sky.
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tech check
tech check Originally uploaded by jabberer. I saw the presentations of zaha hadid in the back room, and met yves behar [fuse project], who demonstrated the working one-laptop-per-child. Fascinating to see what people can do……
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unattended
unattended Originally uploaded by jabberer. The closing plenary of chi 07 left many with the feeling that something was missing. The slide show running on Flickr left on the side screens didnt catch people’s eyes as self-running presentation as part of the talk. Could it have been an experiment on the psychology of group reaction ...