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Design Context Clues2008IDEA CONFERENCE
Hi. I’m Jason.Here’s my portfolio.
How do we take context into account when designing experiences that take place in physical and digital spaces?
How does context inform our practice and day to day culture?
Some aspirational crap you can mock me for at a bar later
Today’s talk in 3 parts
T.S. Eliot:Modernist, Curmudgeon.
TS Eliot:Modernist, Hip Hop Artist
Working in Space and Place
FastFrog, 1999
FastFrog, 1999
TWEC Listening and Viewing Station, 2001-2002
TWEC Kiosk, 2001-2002
TWEC Video?
Field Museum, 2002
Orbitz + Orbitz for Business, 2003-2007
Ronin
Vibes 2007
Vibes 2007
Vibes 2007
Vibes 2007
LeapFrog 2007-2008
Microsoft 2008
cMomGo
Along the way I’d acquired team members, partners, + clients, but there was something missing.
We can’t agree on a definition of what we do, though our job is often to define and label other domains.
We can’t differentiate ourselves from interaction designers or usability professionals without utterly confusing the lay person.
As a community, we debate these things amongst ourselves semi-annually.
Why?
We’re willing to accept the oddest of jobs dealing with people and how they use technology to manipulate and retrieve information. It doesn’t give us firm ground to stand on.
Who am I? Who are we?
What do
Go for quick learning generalists
over ingrained specialists. We’ll
never hire someone who’s an
information architect. It’s just
too overly specific. With a small
team like ours, it doesn’t make
sense to hire people with such a
narrowly defined skill-set.
It Leaves Us Feeling Defensive
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”1 March 2006
Our Thinking About This Has Become Way Too Uptight
It has come to mean one who works with his hands, usually in devious or "crafty" ways when compared to the true craftsman, whom Levi-Strauss equates with the Engineer. The Bricoleur is adept at many tasks and at putting preexisting things together in new ways. The Engineer deals with projects in their entirety, taking into account the availability of materials and tools required. The Bricoleur approximates the mind of "the savage mind" and the Engineer approximates the scientific mind. Levi-Strauss says that the universe of the Bricoleur is closed, and he is often forced to make do with whatever is at hand, whereas the universe of the Engineer is open in that he is able to create new tools and materials.
Let me suggest we are Bricoleurs
So when we say Information Architect, Fried says designer, and we both mean bricoleurs.
The difference is the context in which we perform our work, but the result is the same:
We derive intuitive, learnable, efficient patterns of human activity for addressing the problems of chaotic, analog life.
So when I say IA, you mean...
“Be so good that they can’t ignore you.”
- Steve Martin
The Design Ecosystem
40 Years of Computing Devices in 60 Seconds
1970’s: consumer ready
2008 won’t be like 1984
It will be much more playful
Design is bringing the power of computing to the oddest of interfaces
Ushering in a New Era of Interactions
We’re Dancing on the Surface
We must balance that potential against a common language
We Don’t Do This
We Do This
We Have to Innovate Our Way Out
And now for something completely different
Ken Garland:First Things First 1964, 2000
Victor Papanek:Design for the Real World, 1970
Viridian Design
The internet of things
Valerie Casey: The Designer’s Accord, 2008
Santa Barbara’s Light Blue Line
The IDEA Conference volunteers and organizers, especially Jorge Arango and Russ Unger.
My team: Mark Baldino, Ben Ihnchak, Jef Lear
My Friends & Clients: Paul D’Alessandro, Chris Cooper, Joseph Wanka, Jeff Laubach, Keith Daniels, Michael Chanover, Gillian Jetson, Janna Devylder, Devin Henkel, Brendan Gramer, Brian Maggi
My family: Lora Kovac and Sophia Kunesh
Special Thanks To
Thank You for Your Consideration
Jason [email protected]
(312) 925-7533 4445 North Sacramento Avenue Chicago, IL 60625–3827