Near Future Laboratory Blog
Near Future Laboratory Blog
Thoughts, Reflections, Updates & Week Notes
Mar 20, 2012 – Apr 3, 2012
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Apr 03, 2012
A curious addendum to account for a UI/UX muck up at a nearby gasoline station. These moments reveal these hybrid displays — both purposeful, and one made to accomodate for failures in the machine. And this second one — how peculiar. My new laser printer to replace the 10 year old one what that I printed my disserta…
Interaction DesignInterface DesignObservations
Apr 03, 2012
For Nicolas, it was a week devoted to teaching with different lectures and workshops in Geneva (digital failures, Monday), Lausanne (creative approaches in design, Wednesday), Paris (open innovation and design ethnography, Thursday) and Annecy (Innovation and foresight, Friday)… and writing for the game controller p…
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Weeknotes
Apr 02, 2012
Yesterday, in a very small village in the French Alps, I ran across this fascinating bread vending machine. It made me think about other encounters with not-so-common machines such as a book delivery system in Seoul:
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DesignObservation
Mar 27, 2012
Nicolas was, once again, in the train for two workshops about design ethnography and object repurposing: one in Paris at ENSAD, and another one at the HKB in Bern. The idea was to show students the value of this kind of field investigation by asking them to go observe how people repurpose objects in physical space.…
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Weeknotes
Mar 25, 2012
Why do I blog this? This “Genesis Lego by Jomind” is a weird and curious hybridization of a standard controller (a Sega Genesis pad) and a combination of Lego bricks. I take it as an interesting example in the process of creolization, corresponding to the first steps.
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creolizationSyndicated
Mar 23, 2012
Why do I blog this? Simply because I love this visualization as a way to show path-dependence.
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SyndicatedObservation
Mar 22, 2012
Legacy post from Near Future Laboratory.
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Design
Mar 22, 2012
[pullquote author=”FutureScapes”]FutureScapes is all about imagining what the world of 2025 will look like and the role technology could play in our lives.[/pullquote]
Approaches to DesignDesign as StrategyDesign FictionDesign for ImplicationsInteraction DesignUIUX
Mar 20, 2012
Establishing Criteria of Rigor and Relevance in Interaction Design Research by Daniel Fallman and Erik Stolterman is a paper about the epistemological underpinnings of interaction design. It addresses the problem of ‘disciplinary anxiety’ that is often felt by people in this field and the inherent discussion about w…
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