http://moresmarter.net Thoughts on culture, design, research, and use by Todd Wilkens Wed, 20 Sep 2006 21:23:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Who knew that saddam liked the Kids in the Hall? Angered Hussein: ‘We will crush your heads’ http://moresmarter.net/2006/09/12/i-crush-your-head/ Looks like OzIA is shaping up to be a great conference. I wish I had the time to get down there. AP’s own Dan Saffer will be presenting on documentation (it’s really more interesting than it sounds) and giving a workshop on models of invention. We’ve had giant ... http://moresmarter.net/2006/08/07/oz-ia/ There’s been a lot of really great discussion around my last post to the AP blog. It’s exactly the sort of thing I was hoping for when I put the post together in the first place. Make sure to check it out. http://moresmarter.net/2006/07/21/a-great-discussion/ I walk past this this funeral home/chapel every morning and I always wonder if the clock was included in the sign as a public service or a symbolic gesture? Did they intend to make us contemplate our mortality? In what ways do the functions, features, and interactions ... http://moresmarter.net/2006/07/07/time-is-running-out/ This extra visual element is not only unnecessary but it has changed the message that they are trying to communicate. (Note: the place is called Butterfly, which I think is a much nicer kind of fly than the one they have ended up expressing.) http://moresmarter.net/2006/06/16/unintended-message/ The world is messy. Physical, social, and cultural material and activity overlap and intermingle constantly. How do researchers untangle the many layers of evidence to discover the discrete activities? How do we avoid losing something in the untangling? http://moresmarter.net/2006/06/16/layers-of-evidence/ Service design is tricky due to it’s need to span multiple contexts and “touch points”. It means having to account for and incorporate the social, the cultural, and the esthetic. What kinds of issues arise when one of the touch points is biological or genetic? http://moresmarter.net/2006/06/16/designing-services-for-the-sub-cellular/ Wouldn’t it be nice if there were more of this in the world? http://moresmarter.net/2006/06/16/nice-advertising/ Apparently moving your family, your dog, and all of your stuff from one coast to the other takes a lot of time and seriously distracts you from blogging. Add to that the new job at Adaptive Path (which I have hit the ground running in) and we can see ... http://moresmarter.net/2006/05/15/new-job-new-home-new-everything/ I know this is late notice (it was late notice for me too) but I’ll be in SF all this next week. If anyone wants to get together for dinner, drinks, etc., drop me a line. http://moresmarter.net/2006/04/16/in-san-francisco/