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“Dr Spock’s Baby Care is a best-selling owner’s manual for the most complicated ‘product’ imaginable — and it only has two levels of headings. You people have 8 levels of hierarchy and I haven’t even stopped counting yet. No wonder you think it’s complic
Author: Kars Alfrink
Designer turned design researcher. Postdoc at TU Delft. Exploring contestable AI.
links for 2006-05-11
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Chris Heathcote will be demoing the Apache web server for S60 at Reboot 8. Looking forward to that one!
Kaeru
Online I usually go by the nickname “kaeru”, which (to the best of my knowledge) is Japanese for “frog”.
I know, it’s a long story…
So today Floris pointed out that I have a namesake who travels around a bit. His vacation shots can be found here.
links for 2006-05-05
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A report of the experimental gameplay session at this year’s GDC. Covering some cool stuff, such as a guitar playing game, a casual rhythm game, a game that lets it’s player up the difficulty while playing, a game that is calm and soothing demanding to be
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Adam Greenfield talks about his book. Most interesting points: designing for everyware will require new kinds of deliverables (even though we haven’t even fully mastered the old ones) and designers will have to be increasingly emphatic and responsible for
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Adam Greenfield summarizes the contents of his book. “The role of designer assumes a new importance in this context—a new responsibility for ensuring that, wherever possible, the ubiquitous systems we make together improve the everyday lives of their us
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Weinberger asks wether with the rise of folksonomies, we’ll still need IAs for organizing content on the web. The answer is, of course – we do. Maybe they’ll become more like JJG’s algorithmic architects, but regardless, there’ll be plenty of demand for p
links for 2006-05-04
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“The most important function for a manager is X = -Y, where X is employee brain use and Y is degree of management. To use the horse whisperer’s advice, The more you use your reins, the less they’ll use their brains.””
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Excellent TV commercial for the Public Health Dept of Belgium on teenage mothers. It emulates the look & feel of a video game. Remediation, anyone?
links for 2006-05-02
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There seems to be a Backstreet Boys meme going on at Google Video. This is one of the funnier impersonations of everyone’s favourite boy band.
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A nice write-up of an IA Summit workshop on how to use comics to communicate the use of an interactive product.
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Mitch Lasky comes across slightly pompous in this report of his talk for the GDC. He talks about Jamdat (EA’s mobile division), chances for small developers, how carriers are not helping to grow the mobile games business, the problem of too much games on
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A cool story on the evolution of the Animal Crossing franchise. How it went from N64 to Gamecube to DS. Nicely illustrates the challenges game developers face when shifting between technology.
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Excellent special on all things gaming. With special attention to consumer generated media, MMOGs and social impact of gaming.
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“The [Doug Engelbart 1968 demo] has been so prescient over the decades because the research team used and adapted the NLS as they went along, inventing idioms as they went. We still have a lot to learn from what they made, but in particular it’s worth loo
links for 2006-04-28
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Incredible book containing 999 design classics. Must have, to buy, etc.
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Huzzah! Matt Webb will be speaking at Reboot 8. His talk was one of the highlights last year, looking forward to his talk on “Making Senses”.
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The apparent grandaddy of facetted navigation systems has gone open source. Some of the demo’s are really nice examples of the power of facets.
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“Radio frequency identification is a technology that is now rapidly developing. […] to what uses can this technology be applied that are not in the logistical realm? […] This reader compiles a number of resources on the technical and philosophical asp
links for 2006-04-26
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This book looks interesting, a look at what it means to do interaction design for the mobile platform. I’ve read the first chapter. The style is slightly academic and the approach is quite comprehensive.
Random brick writings
An awesome random phenomenon in Woerden, the Netherlands: Just after moving into his new villa, André van Zuilen noticed the word “dick” on the front of his house. An act of vandalism by a disgruntled construction worker or coincidence*?
Original article in Dutch over at AD.nl. Via Edwin.
- We all know there’s no such thing as a coincidence right?
links for 2006-04-19
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Fun with GPS receivers – this site has an excellent gallery of writings & drawings made over the earth.