Next week I will be conducting a human centered design research project at the George Eastman House in Rochester, NY. Today I came across the powerdome®VELVET, a new projector from Carl Zeiss. It’s amazing how far we’ve come in terms of technology but how weirdly similar in form these two products are.
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On Friday I will begin my two week research trip to Seattle, WA and Rochester, NY. This coming Friday I am planning on starting at NARA’s Pacific Northwest and Alaska regional location, just north of Seattle. In the afternoon I’ll be stopping by the University of Washington’s Archives.
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In thinking about reading or research rooms at archives, I wondered what a multi-touch surface would look like and how it could aid a researcher in a reading room at an archive—or conversely, anywhere. Click here to view a gallery of sketches.
Last night Benjamin Bratton spoke in my Design Dialogues class. He calls himself a sociologist by trade who spends a lot of time with design. His talk was titled: “All design is interface design.” Which when you stop and think about it is or should be true. A lot of what he said struck a chord with me in a good way, helping me to reflect on my thesis work, my future practice and the type of designer I want to be.
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