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.”