ELISAVA TdD | 25 | The Craft of Interaction Design "The challenge for us here in Europe as designers in the cultural as well as the technological sphere, is to design things that support the rich variation of European cultures rather than imposing a global techno-culture, the same from Seoul to San Francisco to Sienna." [...]
Cocooning the Cocoon « Future Perfect "Who can forget the mass MRT stabbings of 2016? The result of a carriage full of trainee chefs on route to a carve-off and an advertiser trying out happy slapping in an AR game show format. Whoops." Indeed. (tags: AR augmentedreality attention advertising future mobile)
dsLabs » Blog Archive » Tweak your Processing code in real-time "Tweak is a tool we’ve built to modify variables in Processing while your code is running." Gosh that's useful. Via Alper. (tags: processing.org code tuning tweaking programming tools)
I nearly forgot about last week’s notes even though I wasn’t even that busy. So here I am writing this on a sunday from the couch after having had a nice family brunch and with a La Chouffe close at hand. It’s all good. Since this is a sunday I will keep it short and [...]
Design with Intent | Learning from game design: 11 gambits for influencing user behaviour "My main interest here is to extract the design techniques as very simple design patterns or ‘gambits’* that can be applied in other design situations outside games themselves, where designers would like to influence user behaviour. So these are (at least [...]
Tweetakt is happening in Utrecht at the moment. It’s a youth theatre festival, really pushing the limits of what we think that means. As an example, they’ve provided space for several installations at the festival centre on the Neude. I went over for a quick look today – even though I know most of the [...]
Blueprint Magazine – Architecture & Design "What I really want to do is to use the machine to complete the Sagrada Familia. And to build on the moon." Mindboggling stuff about new 3D printing technology. (tags: Architecture Fabrication 3D Printing)
I am sat on the couch at home typing this. iTunes is on shuffle (some Burial at the moment). I’ve just had a Bi-Fi snack sausage (a guilty pleasure) and some ice tea. I was kind of hungry, but now I’m ok. Last week wasn’t as crazy as many recent ones have been. Still pretty [...]
Game Design, Psychology, Flow, and Mastery – Blog – GDC 2010, The Day Before Day 1 A long but worthwhile post (with skippable parts clearly marked) by Sirlin about the striking contrast between the virtual items summit and its indie counterpart at GDC 2010. (tags: GDC Games Industry Virtual Economy Items Indie Design Development)
Gin, Television, and Social Surplus – Here Comes Everybody When it comes to participatory culture, Shirky says it best. Worth reading for the anecdote about his friend's daughter watching a DVD alone. (tags: Participation Culture Media Consumption Production Sharing ClayShirky)
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