The MacManus galleries invited us to interview employees about our concept, and since we had our concept mapped out and ready to be displayed it was a perfect oppertunity to get some relevatn feedback from people who are very connected to the project. We wrote down a list of relevant questions to base our interview [...]
We started to create storyboards around the concept, visualizing different ways the idea could be used. These storyboards and wireframes gave us a chance to see how well the concept would work and how we could show it off in our final video. The storyboards would demonstrate scenarios where the visitor gained “experience points” by [...]
It was now time to generate a useful concept from all the insights we’ve gathered, we did this by pairing up in the class and each two persons tried to name as many concept based on two insight cards as it was possible. This lead to a number of fun and interesting concept. Me and [...]
Research We then went on to research three different user groups, namely Ceramics, Transhumanism and Papercraft. I was in charge of the papercraft research, I managed to grab a virtual tonne of screenshots from different papercraft related sites, I also wrote a short introduction to papercraft and its user groups. This is the introduction which [...]
Introduction to Designing Social Networks Our Digital Interaction Design course is running a module called Designing Social Networks, in which we are to design concepts for social network sites (SNS) for specified user groups. During the first couple of classes we discussed how we use SNS to communicate and how they will evolve in the [...]
RESEARCH. Research is absolutely essential if you want to write interesting essays/blogposts, writing without previous knowledge is near impossible. Make sure to reserve a couple of “pure research” hours before the actual writing starts, and keep jotting down notes as you stumble on to new sources. Don’t limit your research to the simple google search, [...]
“I am a cyborg, and so are you. Up until the information age, tools augmented the physical self. now we have mental augmentation — we are able to meet peoples brains before we meet their bodies.” – Cyborg anthropologist Amber Case, Cyborg anthropologist Amber Case’s memo to her future self , 2011 March , WIRED [...]