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Collaboration might be a bad word.

In ICTs, Reflections on April 28, 2009 at 4:08 pm

The possibility for collaboration has increased as much as the possibility for confusion and frustration. Wikipedia is the most visible example of that. A triumph of people pooling together, as well as the first indicator of what happens when socially-motivated applications reaches a certain critical mass.

I’m not going to talk about the social phenomena at large, however. What has inspired this post happens within the realm of a small design firm, and a long standing client, in which there are important lessons that I have learned.

A new creative for an old product is a great place to start new processes. Quark files can be dumped as we create the layouts in InDesign, structure in the copy and text can be trimmed of all the extra ‘improvements’ that built up over the years, and it’s a magical and optimistic time for everyone. Until we start getting down to the business of production. Read the rest of this entry »

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First Stab at Interactive Mapping

In Design on March 23, 2009 at 9:37 am

ODBS Interactive Map

Having just finished a section outlining some practical approaches to ‘sketching’ interactive design, I decided to try it out by mapping out the interactive element of the ODBS portal we’ve designed so far. It turned out to be quite an interesting exercise, in the sense that I find it much more useful than a standard site map. The experiments shall continue.

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Designing for Collaboration

In ICTs on March 18, 2009 at 1:52 pm

Last November, Robin Good hosted an online session at the Corporate Learning Trends and Innovations Conference (This is actually a Ning Social Network), where instead of just him spewing out facts and opinions, he allowed his 150 member audience to tell HIM what they have found to be some of the best collaboration tools out there. The result is pretty interesting, and exposed me to a lot of online tools out there that I wasn’t aware of.

Reading Bill Buxton’s work on Sketching User Experience has been really inspiring. Here is a musician, turned researcher, turned information designer (in the broadest sense of that designation), tuning me back into the design dialogues in the context of user experience design. Makes him kind of dreamy.

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