It’s how the speed, screen size and controlled environment of the iPad now means that content design on screen can finally come of age and grow some balls. It’s how the speed, screen size and controlled environment of the iPad now means that content design on screen can finally come of age and grow some balls. All too often sites are designed around one template for each content type. Or so I tweeted whilst watching the recent Apple keynote. A

We should know, we’ve designed a number of sites for media owners, as well as countless blogs that conform to these conventions. Having studied graphic design in the mid 90s I was taught the principles of layout and grid systems and inevitably put my skills to use in producing double page spreads and poster designs. It brings logic and consistency to a design. Isaac and I have been discussing how users consume media and news which has raised some interesting questions around online publishing. Specifically: Specifically: how we construct content templates, how that content

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can never shake the feeling that people dislike getting into details because that’s when service design gets hard, as if it’s the concept that is always right and that the details can be massaged and shaped to fit. You cannot design a great service without an obsessional focus on the details. Tags: opinion service desig Working alongside advertising people, you hear the phrase “oh, that’s executional” a fair bit. Granted, ‘executional’ is a revolting neologism, but that’s not my big problem with the phrase.

Visual wireframes also started to break down a belief that information architecture can be considered in isolation to information design. In the wireframes the submit button is on the right of the drop down, but in the designs it’s below. Once wireframes are created using information design as a technique rather than just a visual conceit, they can be used to explain how a site will be experienced by the end user. I have a love hate relationship with wireframes. In the last 10 years they’ve been a part of every web project I’ve worked on.

If a social psychologist were to design a business, as an experiment of course, she would take all the information she knows about a) person b) environment and c) their interaction and design a system to account for it all. Aware of people's fundamental need to belong, she might conceive of the organization as a vast network of groups; understanding differences in culture, and cultural perceptions, she might afford a more collective orientation by priming team goals and rewarding participation; knowledgeable about interpersonal dynamics she might enable real-time communication and meta-communication

I have struggled in formulating the narrative swarming in hybrid ecosystem as a participatory design experiment. This paper describes a participatory design experiment that is influenced by the swarming activity. In the participatory design experiment we developed a hybrid virtual storytelling playground that augments the real world – a hybrid ecosystem of narratives. It can be it is not yet simple enough for the intended book , but i feel i cannot cut away much more too. It is hard to present visual data in the papers, but i feel some of the evidence needs to be presented

The ecological learning design framework development is something what i consider the main work of my last period besides participating in the development of the iCamp intervention model in elearning2.0. We have in Tallinn University nice tradition to re-elect researcher positions every 4 years. My position is now recruited and part of getting it back it is to give a report of my last period work.

But this process has no goals and people aren’t really put as much attention into the critical task of showcasing technique -disseminating knowledge- as they are in demoing their own designs. Eric Hunting meditates and strategizes on the way forward from here to there. “I’ve been thinking more on this lately -particularly as I’ve recently been working on an article on characterizing/defining Post-Industrial design. Looking at the different Maker blogs, I could see that there was an emergent set of information standards forming ad hoc by a popularity-driven process of selection as well as limitations -chiefly in graphics as people generally can’t produce their own drawn illustrations so resort to photos and video.

One of the most interesting fields where we witness the adoption of Open models is the Design one, where we can find cases of open web design ( OpenDesigns , Open Source Web Design , Open Web Design ), open product design ( Openmoko , VIA OpenBook , Bug Labs , Zoybar ), open meta-design processes , and even open architectural design . Even if slowly, an usually competitive and ego-driven professional community like the design one is starting to realize what are the potentials for the collaboration and sharing of Open Design initiatives