Hello! My name is Adam Little and I am an interaction designer who enjoys human centered design in collaborative, multicultural and cross disciplinary teams. I recently graduated from the Interaction Design Pilot Year, a Master’s level education at the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design in partnership with the Danish Design School.
I am interested in designing people-friendly products, services & software and strategies that apply innovative technology to everyday life in meaningful ways.
Get Together is a service that uses the web and SMS to help friends coordinate social activities. It is designed for collaborating on upcoming events (i.e. birthday party) or to help friends make an event when none exists (i.e. friday night after work). Get Together strives to use the power of social software and mobile phones to facilitate face-to-face communication between friends living in the same city and is designed to be accessible to anyone with a mobile phone.
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Meet the Food You Eat uses the metaphor of a mechanical kitchen scale to measure a food product’s environmental impact. It looks at the carbon emitted as a result of transporting the food and displays this in terms of how many trees would be required to offset that carbon over one year. The working physical prototype (built with Arduino, RFID and a hacked digital scale) also addresses the future of grocery shopping and product sustainability in a world of networked objects.
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As a collaboration with Intel, this student project explored the role of emerging smart grid technology in the context of social computing and personal energy consumption. Green House CPH is a hypothetical government program that provides rebates on energy bills to residents of apartment buildings who can work together to lower their building’s overall energy use. We communicated this concept through a video scenario in the form of a mock user research study.
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Travel Global | Read Local is a service designed for the Libraries of Denmark to offer in conjunction with local hotels. It aims to position the libraries as leaders in promoting Danish culture and knowledge by making their services available to everyone. At the same time, Travel Global | Read Local allows hotels to serve their guests in new ways and allows guests to have a more meaningful experience during their visit in Denmark.
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As today’s tech savvy youth begin to mature, how will mobile phones support their new needs? These three scenarios for Nokia explore how a growing number of personal communication channels can support young people’s maturing need of being available to the right person at the right time, 24 hours a day, while setting clear boundaries between social, personal and professional contexts.
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PhotoCaring is a concept design for an interactive surface that displays shared photographs belonging to residents of an elderly home. The photographs are displayed in a gallery format on a wall in one of the home’s common spaces where interacting with and sharing these personal photos will promote social well-being, nurture identity and will provide a sense of home for everyone in the building. Throughout the duration of this project we made visits to several elderly homes around Copenhagen.
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As an exercise in physical computing, we created a wireless email notification device in the form of a wine bottle. All interaction is done physically and there are no buttons. The concept was to limit our compulsion to obsessively check the computer for new messages while also bringing characteristics of postal mail to the digital world.
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If you are going to get your hands dirty with a new technology, why not make a game? Here are experiments with computer vision, interactive surfaces and Processing that all took the form of simple, playful games.
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PEPY is a grassroots NGO dedicated to sustainable tourism and educational development in rural Cambodia. I spent two months at their Phnom Penh office working to launch a new website promoting their adventure bicycle treks and a social network to keep past participants and volunteers involved in the amazing work PEPY does throughout Cambodia.
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Fah Diow is a non-profit organization that works with communities in Southern Thailand. Working from their Krabi office, it was my duty to review and redevelop the Fah Diow website in association with members of its Thai team, provide in house training on digital media development and provide technical and creative support for Fah Diow’s community based digital photography and digital video projects.
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A series of generative drawings created with modified turntables. While one turntable plays a record, a second turntable simultaneously makes a pencil drawing based on the grooves in the record being spun. The idea was to take a person’s favorite record and then give them a drawing of it.
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