Unexpected Narratives and Creating the Right Conditions

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@michaelsurtees | unexpected narratives and creating the right conditions | february 4th, 2010 | http://designnotes.info/?cat=102

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story lineAgileHybrid Graphic designContent is the new ui


storyline



http://www.vimeo.com/6975248




Watching the sun interact with design


Shooting the sky everyday


36 days of New York Sky: January 16th 2008 to February 20th 2008


New York City Colour Study Timeline


New York City Colour Study – Time when photo was taken graph



Starting the #walkingtoworktoday photo project


Experimenting with Fragmented Medias while #walkingtoworktoday


#walkingtoworktoday


unexpected narratives


Design notes, the bloghttp://designnotes.info


why i blog


why I blogi do it for myself There’s no huge growth goal to get a certain number of visits or comments. By doing it for myself it gives me a lot of freedom to explore the things I want to. In turn I hope others enjoy the things I collect on DesignNotes. But if no one ends up visiting, that’s ok b/c I wrote what I did because I wanted to.

i do it to remember You’re more likely to remember something if you’ve written about it. Now that I’m remembering all that stuff, I need to figure out a way to apply that knowledge. (Suggestions welcome)

i do it to keep my mind active Just like when I take photos to help me see, the same can be said about writing for my blog. If you’re actively thinking about the world around you, it makes you better informed to make decisions.

i do it to meet likeminded people I can’t imagine where I would be if I hadn’t taken those first steps to post an idea. I’ve been very lucky that there have been readers of DesignNotes that have turned into friends and it’s been a great resource to bounce ideas off of.

i do it because i can The fact that it is so insanely easy to be a publisher that only eight or ten years ago would have been impossible. The overhead is extremely low… It’s important for me to explore all options for communication. I’m a designer, if you’re not willing to try to understand all the options people have to express ideas, how is it possible to give the most informed ideas possible?


Design notes content types

interviews Five to six conversations with a person I’m interested in knowing more about

book reviews Attempting twelve a year, talking about design related books within the context of what I got out of them

experiences Commenting on everyday design experiences. Could be a response to an interaction, product or something I’ve come across in a normal day.

link drop Sharing posts and sites that worth talking about on a weekly basis.

design work Mentioning projects that that have gone live, talking about the process of how something came to be.


Deborah Adler ClearRx Interview


“Information Hierarchy—(order, position, type size, contrast, leading,

alignment and choice of typefaces) is another important factor to a

functional and clear label.

These two elements coupled with the consumer’s point of view

is crucial to the success of the labels legibility. It will also make drug safety information easier for doctors to find in a short amount of time. Not only did I want the labels to be functional and

easy to understand, but it interested me that by understanding

adult schemas for taking medication, the label has the possibility

of increasing memory.

–deborah adler


An interview with John Gargiulo, owner of Swich in NYC


“I always said on my 30th birthday if I hadn’t yet taken a big risk in life and started a company or something big, I had to quit my job on that day and figure something out fast. I guess I got anxious

because on my 26th birthday I walked into Cliff’s office and retired

from advertising. I developed a business plan, found an investor, and

a year and a half later in December of last year, we opened our doors.

–john gargiulo





The Person behind Nooka: an interview with Matthew Waldman


“Adults don’t think about it much, but time is calculated in base 12

[or base 24] when almost everything else we calculate is base 10.

These concepts are difficult for some children and must be taught. If something must be taught, then it is not intuitive… which brought all the background processes above together and I questioned why there were only 2 ways to represent time.–matthew waldman


Alissia Melka-Teichroew Interview: designer, founder of byAMT, curator, and maker


“Q: Do you design for yourself, have a person in mind or

something else entirely?

Something else entirely I think, however it’s like buying presents. You usually buy something for someone else that somewhere you also enjoy because it is more fun that way—it’s more genuine if you do it that way.–alissia melka–teichroew


QuadCamera and ToyCamera Interview with Takayuki Fukatsu, creator of iPhone Apps


“So as a first step I want to suggest that “cheap and uncontrollable is

fun”. That’s why ToyCamera only has random effect. I wanted to pick

up the essence of uncontrollable fun of actual ToyCameras.

Also I want to make my ToyCamera as Camera not application. That’s why there is no

Undo, Redo, and import taken photo from album.

–takayuki fukatsu


A great conversation with swissmiss


“I vividly remember visiting an exhibit showcasing David Carsons

work. I was truly fascinated by his ‘freestyle graphic design’, even

though it was clear that it wasn’t for me. I always had the gridded-white-space-driven-swiss-designer in me. Now, I can clearly say, that Josef

Müller-Brockmann’s work was, and still is, one of my

biggest influences.

–swissmiss (tina roth eisenberg)


Look Both Ways by Debbie Millman


I Miss My Pencil by Martin Bone and Kara Johnson






Banksy at work in NYC: Broadway & Howard St.


My walking experience with the AIGA NY ALPHABET/CITY: A WALKING TOUR WITH TOBIAS FRERE-JONES





The Flo in Florent


My Link Drop Process


· Save links to delicious· Start placing links into wordpress Wednesday and Thursday · Reorder links once I have 20–25 · Take screen grabs of sites · Upload screen grabs to flickr · Place photos into a post · Start writing why I think the link is worth reading · Collect themes on paper · Upload diagram to flickr and include in post · Mark all tags · Publish

My Link Drop Process


LINK DROP


LINK DROP themes


LINK DROP themes


LINK DROP themes


LINK DROP themes


LINK DROP themes


LINK DROP todayhttp://linkdroptoday.com


agile


“There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we now know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. These are things we do not know we don’t know.

Unknowns

–donald rumsfeld http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unknown_unknown






A. Requirements

B. Design

C. Implementation

D. Testing

E. Maintenance

Waterfall


Agile

· Requirements and solutions evolve through collaboration· Frequent inspection and adaptation· Tasks are broken into small parts with minimal planning· Emphasize face–t0–face communication over written documentshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_software_development


*The route will change

Project road map*


Everyone share’s the same mental picture

team


Working in tandem

Moving forward

Circling back

different paths


Daylife


smart galleries


smart galleries with designnotes


hybrid Graphicdesign


What is the logo worth?


Face pics are the new logo


Company Deal Announcements








How does a designer work with this?


Lean Pocket Info Fail






Confusing MTA Subway Turnstiles


the Locksmith’s Business Card


Flexing scale, marks and other consistent things that brands could be




Little Brooklyn


Little Brooklyn


Little Brooklyn


Little Brooklyn


Design Sale

If you use the design It’s complimentary. If you don’t it will cost you $10,000


“you read best what you read most Zuzana Licko mentions in 1990, while more recently during the 2008

US Presidential Election a student quipped if the news is that important, it will find me. They’re

universal truths that are applicable to almost anything. It’s not a

tech. thing, it’s not a print thing, it is a people experience thing.

Everyone interprets their experiences the way they choose to—

whether it’s consciously or subconsciously.

Quotes to remember as a designer


Contentis thenew ui


My News Flow on Flight 1549


Follow others Set Privacy

Copy + paste Save stuff

Embed Connect

Arduino with itPrint

Can your productdesign idea:


How my iPhone evolved how I tell stories


Sketching out a blog post loop


Thinking about twitter feeding facebook status


More buy and vote on demand, and distributing things in digital


Read it, print it out, share it widely. Do some sort of cool auto–tuned new liberal arts remix





Talking Sticker


Podcasts are now magazines, magazines are what newspapers used to be, and music files are now…


24hr music app for the iPhone


Showing Competitors on a Product Site


Inside Out with Invader in NYC








Still photography and video evolution





Thank you aiga Dallas / Fort Worth


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