Great (Lengthy) Interview

I’ve been meaning to post this for a week now. It’s a great (and lengthy) article with Adam Greenfield who is Nokia’s head of design direction for user interface and services.

Q: Are there ways we could design ubiquitous systems that might support personal autonomy?

A: …When given some kind of real-time overview of all of the options available to you in a given time, place and context – and especially if that comes wrapped up in some kind of visualization that makes anomaly detection a matter of instantaneous gestalt, to be grasped in a single glance – your personal autonomy is tremendously enhanced… you don’t head out to the bus stop until your phone tells you a bus is a minute away, and you don’t walk down the street where more than some threshold number of muggings happen – in fact, by default it doesn’t even show up on your maps…

Live | Work: Service Thinking

I stumbled across live|work recently and have enjoyed reading their articles and perspectives on Service Design. Particularly this passage:

when production takes place in one place far from where the product is consumed the relationship between producer and consumer becomes impersonal, disconnected and ultimately unsustainable.

There’s an awful lot being written about our nation’s food consumption habits and the dangers of factory farming, truck-ripened food and the like. The above statement is a reoccurring theme in modern life. One that I think we will see pop up in lots of different contexts as we emerge from the haze of the post-9/11 bush years and begin to strive for sustainability in all aspects of life.

Check out the entire article, it’s a great window into live|work’s viewpoint on their craft.

Sputnik Observatory

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I stumbled across these videos the other day. Between this and TED I can see myself devoting even more of my day to ideation/stimulative thinking.