My bookmarks from the past week:
- DIYcity
“The site explores the idea that open, participatory web technologies, applied to city living patterns, infrastructure and services, can radically transform cities as we know them, making them more efficient, more livable and more sustainable.”
- 8tracks - Mix feed
“8tracks is a simple way for people to share and discover music through an online mix…8tracks believes handcrafted music programming trumps algorithms. Think radio in the 1970s, mixtapes in the 1980s, and DJ culture of the 1990s through today.” Some great stuff to discover on here…
- Amazon.com: Digital by Design: Crafting Technology for Products and Environments: Conny Freyer, Sebastien Noel, Eva Rucki, Paola Antonelli: Books
- Amazon.com: Analog In, Digital Out: Brendan Dawes on Interaction Design (VOICES): Brendan Dawes: Books
- Does Barack Obama Understand Innovation? Maybe Not. - BusinessWeek
“Barack Obama’s appointment of a 30-year lifer from McKinsey, the management consulting firm, to Chief Performance Officer of the United States is, well, awful. At a time when the US desperately needs serious innovation to restart and reset the economy,…”
- Design Consultancy: CONTINUUM | Right idea. Real results
My bookmarks from the past week:
- Concentrate - Design For Education
“We develop innovative products to help children concentrate at school by identifying the reasons that they might be distracted, uncomfortable or unable to focus”
- The New Examined Life - WSJ.com
“Why more people are spilling the statistics of their lives on the Web”
- Institute for Applied Autonomy
“Our mission is to study the forces and structures which affect self-determination and to provide technologies which extend the autonomy of human activists”
- Uscreates | Dedicated to designing social change
“Uscreates is a creative consultancy that supports local organisations in delivering social change.”
- While you were out: changes in the global design industry
by Niti Bhan
- Core77 - Seismic Shift: Rethinking the Design Industry
by Niti Bhan
- Polite, Pertinent, and… Pretty: Designing for the New-wave of Personal Informatics - SlideShare
Slideshow about “personal informatics: services that surface information about you and your network to your advantage. Matt Jones will examine how great UX design can maximize the benefits to all.”
- Tellart - Design for the Human Experience
“We create products, services and environments that address human need and shape human experience.”
- Touch
“Touch is a research project that investigates Near Field Communication (NFC), a technology that enables connections between mobile phones and physical things.” Great resources for NFC and RFID based projects.
- The web in the world - SlideShare
“In the same way as the web is quickly extending onto the mobile platform, we are starting to see the web moving further into the physical world.” Slideshow by Timo Arnall
- howstuffismade.org
“A visual encyclopedia that documents the manufacturing processes, labor conditions and environmental impacts involved in the production of contemporary products.”
- Is design political? - By Jennie Winhall
“My policy colleagues say they went into politics because they wanted to challenge the status quo and make things better for ordinary people. That’s certainly why I went into design. So maybe design is more political than you think.”
- Manifesto for Networked Objects by Julian Bleecker
“A Manifesto for Networked Objects — Cohabiting with Pigeons, Arphids and Aibos in the Internet of Things” PDF
- area/code
“Area/code takes advantage of today’s environment of pervasive technologies and overlapping media to create new kinds of entertainment.”
- YouTube - Everyware- The dawning age of ubiquitous computing 1of8
“The presentation that Adam Greenfield gave at Keio University’s DMC Institute, Tokyo, Japan on July 15, 2006. The topic is Adam’s then recently published book “Everyware: The dawning age of ubiquitous computing.”
- Using Design to Crack Society’s Problems - Hilary Cottam - Peckham Circle | Fast Company
- Participle
“Participle works with and for the public. Together we create new types of public services that make a real difference in everyday lives.”
My bookmarks from the past week:
- School of Visual Arts — MFA in Interaction Design
“The MFA in Interaction Design program trains students to
research, analyze, prototype, and design concepts in their
business, social, and cultural contexts.”
- Inspire and innovate | guardian.co.uk
A collection of innovation articles from the Guardian in associated with Ideo
- Ping - Consumers Are Choosing Simpler Electronic Gadgets - NYTimes.com
- Potion
“Founded by graduates of the MIT Media Laboratory, Potion is a design and technology firm specializing in interactive installations.”
- Digital Bulletin Boards at RISD
“Seven large-screen digital bulletin boards have been installed at strategic locations on campus to inform the community about events and enable students, faculty and staff to post their own musings, messages, artwork, doodles, poetry, questions and comments.”
- Creative solutions in tough times - International Herald Tribune
“Alice Rawsthorn reports in the International Herald Tribune on how, as the recession deepens, ’social’ and ’service’ design are becoming all the more relevant.” via Core77
My bookmarks from the past week:
- Question Box - All About Question Box
Question Box is a project that “brings the information of the Internet to people who lack access. Users call our hotline, speak in their own language to an Operator, and ask any question they wish. The Operator looks it up and gives back the answer.”
My bookmarks from the past week:
- Fuse Project
“Founded in 1999 by Yves Behar, fuseproject develops cohesive brand + product experiences. With a focus on establishing new markets and disrupting old ones, our work takes a long-term strategic approach to developing and enhancing our clients’ business, with teams spanning brand & market strategy, identity & naming, packaging design, product development and communications design.”
- Five questions » Design Thinking
“I popped into BusinessWeek a few days ago so that they could interview me for their “Five Questions” series. I spent most of my time talking about design thinking.” Tim Brown, IDEO CEO
- reactable software
“reacTIVision is an open source, cross-platform computer vision framework for the fast and robust tracking of fiducial markers attached onto physical objects, as well as for multi-touch finger tracking.”
- Songbird - Open Source Music Player
“Songbird is an open-source customizable music player that’s under active development.”
- Dropbox - Home - Secure backup, sync and sharing made easy.
- Henrietta center keeps families dealing with disabilities connected | democratandchronicle.com | Democrat and Chronicle
A newspaper article about my brothers in Rochester!
- Kamworks
“Kamworks Ltd was established as a Cambodian solar energy company in 2006. The mission of Kamworks is to provide affordable energy systems order to contribute to sustainable development. “
- Lumen
“Currently we are working on a project for Kamworks, a young solar company located in Cambodia. We are developing an affordable, quality lighting solution for the rural Cambodian population.”
- Many Eyes
“Our goal is to ‘democratize’ visualization and to enable a new social kind of data analysis.” Shared data sets facilitated by IBM.
- Fritzing
“An open-source initiative to support designers and artists to take the step from physical prototyping to actual product.”
My bookmarks from the past week:
My bookmarks from the past week:
- Interaction, Software, and Service Design — Dubberly Design Office
- Concept Design Tools - Digital Web Magazine
“Designers of digital products and services like ourselves can dramatically improve our work by generating more concepts early in our projects. In this article, I’ll try to make concept design easier to learn by illustrating three simple tools for generating concepts. “
- The Specials On BBC “Arena” / търсене
Cool! A BBC documentary about The Specials from the 80’s. Hosted on some Russian site.
- Interaction Lab at Rockwell Group
- Putting people first » The many futures of our digital lives
“In her inaugural public lecture as Adelaide’s Thinker in Residence, Intel’s Genevieve Bell will explore how digital technology is shaping our lives, our culture, and our future.” Download MP3
- Data Visualization and Infographics - Smashing Magazine
Data visualization and infographics inspiration from Smashing Magazine
- UNdata
“internet-based data service for the global user community” by the United Nations
- DISK/club transmediale: Festival 09
Berlin, anyone?
- You’re Leaving a Digital Trail. What About Privacy? - NYTimes.com
- 28 Reasons to Bike
- Gallery | inspireUX - words to inspire user experience designers
Download and print “quotes from people who truly understand the importance of a positive user experience.”
- The Extraordinaries
“The Extraordinaries turns spare time into social good by delivering volunteer opportunities, on-demand, to mobile phones, which can be performed on mobile phones in 20 minutes or less.”
- MAKE: Blog: Open source hardware 2008 - The definitive guide to open source hardware projects in 2008
The definitive guide to open source hardware projects in 2008