Firstly, I should confess that I am absolutely amazed by the close correlation of cognitive psychology and design practice. The deeper I dig into design process, theory and successful examples, the more I find out that before getting hands dirty, sketching up cool and slick ideas and appealing interfaces, one should carry out a thorough …
September 2011 archive
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Sep 28
[mashup additional] I Read A Book, It Told Me It Loved Me
Do you ever get an #eyedeer, and it just festers in your head until you do it? Well, that’s what this one feels like. It’s not actually in the assignment list, so I’m going to do it as an additional piece of work because I can’t get it out of my head and it’s driving …
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Sep 28
Scrapyard Challenge!
I was in a group with Firm, Paweena and Doug (spelling?) and actually we came up with THREE different musical instruments out of an old printer and a xbox. The most-fun bit was probably breaking open the xbox, and I got to mallet the harddisk drive! (yay!) After we opened the harddisk drive, Doug said …
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Sep 28
Project #3 Feedback Loop: Hush Box Option 3
The Hush Box, project #7 from 7 in 7 assignment: 7 in 7 Project #7: The Hush Box
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Sep 28
Project #3 Feedback Loop: Time Management Option 2
This is more of a personal use. I’d like to use M&Ms to gauge how much time I’m spending on which project per class. Each color would represent the class and its project and one M&M would be one hour. They will be filled inside glass jars to which I will be documenting via photo …
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Sep 28
Project #3 Feedback Loop: Death from Bullying in USA Option 1
This is made in order to gauge how prevalent the act of bullying has become within America’s current youth culture. We hear about this maybe once every six months? But we hear about it nonetheless more often now that before. With the emergence of technology and social networking, bullying— so it seems, has reached a …
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Sep 28
Scrapyard Challenge
For the scrap yard challenge my group created four mini accordions set up in a single circuit so that sound could not be made unless every player was making the connection. It was really great to experience how little it takes to actually create some sort of physical product that gives feedback.
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Sep 27
Mash-up Project #2: Smart-Dwell
Smart-Dwell is the new home for the future. It is a Mash-up of Eco-Systems, Smart-Sensors and a Feedback Loop all for a Healthy + Eco-friendly home. Ideally this would be in an urban setting where space is scarce, full of pollutants and also where there’s much waste from energy and refuse. But this could also …
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Sep 27
readings week 4 (mashup)
I really liked the articles on musical mash-ups since I listen to a lot of them on youtube, my favourite is this one: Circus/PokerFace (aucostic) possibly everything pop mashup ever aspires to be: United States of Pop I love United States of Pop, it’s almost like a sound map of all the pop music top …
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Sep 27
readings week 3
I took a long time to think about what to write for this post, and honest truth – I haven’t really came to any solid conclusion yet. Norman’s essay on design of everyday brings about an interesting concept about material affordances; that the material itself has inclinations towards a certain action/use. At first it seemed …
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