exploration: accounts of success and misadventure
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Thinking Physically: Affordance Treasure Hunt
we embarked upon an affordance treasure hunt as an exercise for our thinking physically class. given a set of criteria we had to identify objects which satisfied the criteria for the indicated user set. i’m still anchoring my understanding of affordances, assisted by reading j.j. gibson’s introduction to the topic and donald norman’s discussion about […]
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1-2-10: Click Here
Designing buttons for mobile devices. Each button has to evoke a word from a provided list. happy, angry, scared, fast, nervous, cute, dangerous, search, glamourous, full, skinny, noisy, painful, tiny, quiet, hot, cold, sexy, free, autumn, childish, breaking news
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Spatial Media: Fivesies
The couch is often prime space in a living room during social gatherings and securing a spot on it can be a priority. Eventually, the couch sitter will have to get up, to use the restroom, to get a drink or snacks, to take a phone call, etc.. “Calling fives” or “fivesies” declares your intention […]
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Thinking Physically: {h}ears
megaphones for ears. inspired by prince, tigre and penguin. i’ve always been a cat person. when i lived with my first cat i’d watch his ears swivel as he would listen to the sounds around us. sometimes i’d make quiet noises when he was looking away to see if he’d turn his ears toward me. […]
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Spatial Media: Camera Coding
Assignment 2(b): Make an app that allows you to get a single pixel color from live video and fill a rectangle with that color. I’ve done similar things countless times in Processing (and Director before that), so I used this as an opportunity to dive into openFrameworks. I have been building up my experience of […]
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1-2-10: NY DMV redesign
Our first assignment was to redesign the front page of the New York State Motor Vehicle Services website. I’ve recently had to navigate it to update my driver’s license, and found it very frustrating to use. The front page is overwhelming in the number of links and choices initially presented. In the spirit of John […]
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Spatial Media: Kitchen Interface
Spatial Media looks to be an interesting topic. One thing that I could really take away from Jared’s first presentation was: “It’s about context in space. It’s about information – all information has a space. Conversely, all places have information.” Assignment 1: The Kitchen What is the context of a kitchen? How do people really […]
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Thinking Physically: Experiment 1
Our first experiment for Thinking Physically is to “Create an interface or interaction that causes a person to ‘open up’.” This statement is intentionally vague – emotional, physical, literal? My initial notes: People seem to be aloof or wary of unfamiliar others. A shared experience seems to break down this distance. Observing a humorous or […]
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Toy Design: SkipDraw*
*(the name of the toy is still under consideration) SkipDraw A classic toy reinvented for the active kid of today. Wear the SkipDraw on your ankle and spin it on the floor around your feet. As it spins, the LED lighted cross will rotate independently. See it draw images of light in mid air as […]
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Toy Design – Assignment 1 research
Some research for our first assignment in Toy Design. Paul had an idea for a drawing toy that that would rotate, with extensions at the end of a string or rope also rotating and actually making the marks. Here’s a quick sketch of the possible output. There is also an animated version with speed controls. […]