Corporate

Lame and Obvious Multimedia Art or Novel Ecommerce Prototype?

jeffreybardzell January 24, 2008 1

I have mixed feelings about posting this video, and WordPress won’t let me paste the object/embed code–not sure what’s up with that, so here’s a link instead: http://www.salon.com/ent/video_dog/ifc/2008/01/23/sundance_newfrontier/index.html It is supposedly a work of “multimedia art” (in the words of the usually hip Salon.com), shown at the usually hip Sundance, which shows how virtual sweatshop…

fictional interaction design

jimmypierce December 10, 2007 2

…anew genre I hadn’t thought about. via http://www.core77.com/blog/technology/fictional_computer_interface_design_8346.asp

Management and Innovation

chmbrigg December 4, 2007 0

I mentioned this blog in class, where people are questioning whether/how innovation can be managed: http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5821.html

Attention Economy of Memes

Tyler December 2, 2007 2

We discussed meme‘s in class earlier this week in relation to complex systems and HCI. As we mentioned, meme’s are a unit of cultural propagation similar to gene’s for the propagation of DNA. The Internet is responsible for dramatically increased rates of memetic cultural proliferation. However, the rate of memetic proliferation on the Internet has…

Ripe for a Post Sructural Field Day

chmbrigg November 21, 2007 6

from: http://www.strategy-business.com/li/leadingideas/li00051 What companies need, therefore, is a new approach to demand creation that actually enables — make that forces — a company to be what it says it is. To borrow the phrase architect Jon Jerde made famous, that discipline is placemaking. Places are what provide the primary means for companies to demonstrate exactly…

RIAA Shenanigans

Mike Madison November 19, 2007 0

Another brick in the “we sue you long time” file sharing wall…

One to One Interactive Videos

chmbrigg November 3, 2007 0

Since Jeremi Karnell was here on Tuesday, i thought you’d all get a kick out of the videos they’ve produced for the upcoming MITX awards ceremony: http://www.otoinsights.com/2007/11/if-your-agency-.html

Balancing Values & Usability

davidroyer November 2, 2007 10

“The landscape as well as the city are both highly structured, and our existence is furnished with many different kinds of devices and technological systems. These are what instruct people in contemporary societies ‘how to live.’” -De Vries There is a wealth of design and social science literature that suggests that the artifacts we use…

Bill Buxton interview

tdbowman October 17, 2007 0

You may have already seen this, but the summary of the interview is nice… note the emphasis on sketching. This of course reiterates what we read by Buxton earlier. (the full audio interview is also available via link on page) http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/05/31/a-conversation-with-bill-buxton-about-design-thinking/

Fully Automated Politics

jeffreybardzell October 15, 2007 8

Building on a topic Christian brought up earlier in his blog, I’d like to share an amusing experience of computer-age politics that I had today. Earlier, I got an email from an environmental group, called the National Resources Defense Council. In it, it accused Toyota of violating its own “green” image, because it is lobbying…