"… with a view to informing decisions and taking action." Maps are perhaps the oldest and best forms of visualising data. Met up with Danny Dorling last night, Professor Danny Dorling to you, master of maps which actually kind of underplays the incredibly important role he has in defining social policy, especially in the UK. [...]
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Ebay: Designing for convenience View Comments
John Sanbourne has just talked through ebay express [which was news to me] at the [otherwise pretty disappointing] BTWEEN forum in Bradford. His slides should be on the BTWEEN site later. The development of express has been prompted by the market for ‘convenience’ purchases, instant gratification, rather than an auction, this is "buy now" [...]
Gaming the event View Comments
The ‘life beyond the broadcast’ for BBC Weekenders seems quite healthy.Moylesy taken from kc_mcfen’s on flickr. See the pool which with 222 members and over 2300 pics as of today is up there with the Japanology pool! Woohoo. See also the weekender tags and a rather wonderful set of from ruu as well as Radio [...]
Categories: Web/Tech,design,media,socialsoftware
Designing for everyday use View Comments
Now we’re in an age of ubiquitous connectivity [or near ubiquitous] and PCs are more about being intermediaries in a social network, why are we still stuck with machines that take little account of the context of use? Forget the plethora of web 2.0 services that spring up by the hour to take care of [...]
Foot Work View Comments
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } "upmarket" slipper mop, originally uploaded by superlocal. Superlocal has a good eye for the material culture of South East Asia. I find his work together with Jan’s quite compulsive. Anyway, Korean floor slippers that [...]
Categories: design
The loo View Comments
I’ve been prompted to look at the common loo lately, mainly because of some client work. But loo’s have been front of mind recently because I’ve also been looking at public, private and intimate spaces for some other research and discovered that many people value the bathroom / toilet space as somehow sacred – it [...]
Tagged: toilet design research
The social life of information View Comments
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } the social life of information, originally uploaded by JamesB. I’m digging digg at the moment particularly seeing news ‘move’ in real time. It’s quite compelling – not particularly radical, in the sense that there [...]
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Get Crafty View Comments
Link: Los Angeles Times: ( the handmade life ). Interesting article in the LA Times [reg req'd - find here] around the craft movement which kinda supplements what I wrote earlier about Etsy. The article is useful because it brings out some of the social and psychological drivers underpinning the new craft movement: Around midnight, [...]
Categories: business,design,marketing,media,socialsoftware,society
3D Letter View Comments
OdedEzer_008 Originally uploaded by Oded Ezer. Skeletal language in plasticine which I find quite hauntingly pretty. By Oded who does some cool typography.
Categories: design
Home Economics Just Got Interesting View Comments
Link: Etsy – Your place to buy and sell all things handmade. I’ve been toying with the idea for a while now of developing a means through which people can sell what they make. And ask for things for other, experts, to make for them. A kind of eBay for products that are handmade. It [...]
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