I don’t know how it started but someone thought it would be fun to play telephone (a.k.a. chinese whispers) during yesterday’s train ride to Malmö. It incited a lot of childishness and made the time fly. This same group of people routinely passes messages along to each other digitally. Can we sacrifice any of the clarity this affords us and bring back some of the random surprises word-of-mouth treats us with?
How does the process of designing a better product work? To show you, Nightline went to Palo Alto, CA to the designers at IDEO, and gave them the toughest problem we could think of. Take something old and familiar like the shopping cart and completely redesign it in just five days.
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Where do new ideas come from? This film is about design strategists and how they identify the right ideas. It was produced by the global innovation consultancy Continuum.
Not unlike some of what we are doing here at CIID…
A recent move means a new bicycle video! Closer to school AND I get to ride through the park everyday. Music by the Figurines.
This video was created for the 2 week course “Social Computing & Sustainability”. As the first of two Industry Projects we will have this year, it was a collaboration between the Interaction Design Pilot Year and Intel. Jacob, Yves and I produced this video as a mock “user research study” as a way to communicate Green House CPH, our concept for a government initiative to decrease energy consumption in Copenhagen.
I hope the video explains it all, otherwise keep reading for some more information and photos.
As mentioned before, the topic of the past two weeks has been Social Computing & Sustainability. Jay from Intel gave a brief talk on the idea of social computing and how it relates to some of the system-on-a-chip technologies that Intel may be working with. But one item from that presentation which really stuck out was this Carrotmob video. The video and concept have nothing to do with social computing per se, but I think it can be assumed it wouldn’t be possible to achieve what Carrotmob did without social computing. Showing what websites, mobile phone apps and whatever else were used would not really add anything to this video.
From this point of view and from a sustainability point of view, this video is well worth watching. And from a design point of view, it’s a great example of concept testing, experience prototyping, etc… The concept is designed for large corporations, but they were able to test it in a local market and prove its feasibility.
It makes me think of the project I am currently working on, a video scenario about a government initiative that helps reduce energy consumption. Our video focuses a lot on the touchpoints involved (websites & mobile phone apps). But can it not be assumed that any new, forward thinking service will be utilizing these? I think the Carrotmob video showed us this. So for our video, which as an Interaction Design project requires some of these touchpoints, we really have to think of some creative ways to make them new and fresh.
During some down time on the TUI project, Sid laser cut a camera mount for his bicycle. He let me borrow it so I could make a video of my commute to school this morning. The song is Black Power by Danish rapper Per Vers (apparently it’s about coffee). Enjoy!