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Blinded By Big Data: It's The Models, Stupid – ReadWrite

Wed, 22 May 2013 11:10:02 -0400

Blinded By Big Data: It's The Models, Stupid – ReadWrite

What does “BIG DATA” mean for official statistics?

Fri, 03 May 2013 04:48:58 -0400

What does “BIG DATA” mean for official statistics?

(via Nikolai Bernstein and the neurophysiology of labor (1931))

Thu, 02 May 2013 10:57:07 -0400

(via Nikolai Bernstein and the neurophysiology of labor (1931))

(via TwoPoints.Net | International Bureau of This And That)

Thu, 02 May 2013 06:54:07 -0400

(via TwoPoints.Net | International Bureau of This And That)

(via The Metaphors That Shape Our Lives | mjays.net by Martin...

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 04:11:00 -0400

(via The Metaphors That Shape Our Lives | mjays.net by Martin Spindler)

"Critique shouldn’t stop us from acting or, in my opinion, tell us how to act. Critical awareness..."

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 07:08:15 -0400

“Critique shouldn’t stop us from acting or, in my opinion, tell us how to act. Critical awareness should help us situate ourselves, make active decisions to do some things and not others, and accept the consequences of these actions for ourselves and others.”

- 5 Things About Ubiquitous Computing That Make Me Nervous | Design Culture Lab

Bruce Sterling: Closing Keynote (by Interaction Design...

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 05:36:33 -0400

Bruce Sterling: Closing Keynote (by Interaction Design Association)

timoarnall: No smartphones symbol. Traditionally ‘no phone’...

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 09:30:23 -0500

timoarnall:

No smartphones symbol.

Traditionally ‘no phone’ signs have meant no phone calls, but there’s a new predominant cultural use of phones, which is poking at the internet through touch screens. We should be able to address this behaviour too if we need to, in cinemas or theatres for example.

Go ahead, download and use it: PDF / EPS / high-res PNG.

No Rights Reserved: to the extent possible under law, Timo arnall has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to the ‘No smartphones symbol’.

"Most of the technologies which we expect to deliver the future are the opposite of realist: they..."

Sun, 13 Jan 2013 17:42:25 -0500

“Most of the technologies which we expect to deliver the future are the opposite of realist: they deform or mask the real in order to make it palatable, seamless, unthreatening.”

- No Dads, No Filters | booktwo.org

"As it happens I once related the 15 seconds anecdote to someone else from Apple, and they looked at..."

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 07:22:00 -0500

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As it happens I once related the 15 seconds anecdote to someone else from Apple, and they looked at me then said (I paraphase): HA! 15? One! You’ve got one second! Maybe two!

a good product is explainable in a sentence. We’ve since refined this: we ask ourselves how whatever we’re designing can be described in 140 characters or less.

It’s so significant that physical things now have computation inside them, and access to the network. It’s insane what this means.

So it is a product or a service? I don’t think it’s possible to make that distinction, you wouldn’t separate the two.

the object/interface separation! The user interface is an interface because it’s the surface of the thing, the interface between the thing and the world. The controls of a physical thing used to be on the interface, the surface. The design cue for a control surface was the idea of affordances. No longer. I control Little Printer through a portable screen, separate from the object itself: my smartphone. To control a thing, you no longer necessarily look at the thing. Weird.

little brain/big brain! So how do you do product design when the physical shape of the product no longer bounds what its functionality, and the behaviour of a product can be side-loaded from the network, entirely changing what it does without the product physical altering at all?

Metaphorically of course, according to all my “product” thinking, the entire thing - publications, marketing, brand, smartphone interface, plastic and silicon all - is the “product,” because it’s the entire “product” by which the market will judge our success.

”

- Air quotes, product ( 8 Mar., 2012, at Interconnected)

"We have people who are in our office whose parents haven’t changed their fridges in 35 years...."

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 07:13:32 -0500

“We have people who are in our office whose parents haven’t changed their fridges in 35 years. And when you look at that installed base of the number of consumers and the infrastructure that’s going to be required to really make that vision of the smart, connected home real, I think that the time frame is significantly longer than many of these companies anticipate.”

- The Verge Interview: Ambient Devices CEO Pritesh Gandhi on ‘glanceable’ data | The Verge

(via Fitness by design - Design - Domus)

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 07:05:55 -0500

(via Fitness by design - Design - Domus)

“We cannot say we know the devices in our pockets. We find...

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 06:23:22 -0500

“We cannot say we know the devices in our pockets. We find ourselves dependent on infrastructure that we don’t understand. If you cannot unpack, or describe, the constituent engineered parts of your environment, you cannot critically engage with the world you live, because you can’t see your world, you can’t describe it. The children’s book reality that we rely on to describe the world around us, is full of really silly metaphors [like the cloud, the matrix, or series of tubes]”.

"We are the city, our patterns of behaviour and actions construct the cultural fabric of our cities,..."

Wed, 02 Jan 2013 14:08:19 -0500

“We are the city, our patterns of behaviour and actions construct the cultural fabric of our cities, but we are also participating in the digital layer of our urban condition, we need to be proactive in the construction of spatial relations. We need to take the power back. The emergence of new forms of contemplative spaces will emerge through the collective need and desire for them. They can be supported by new technologies, or destroyed by them, but whatever happens, unless we want our spatial experience to be dominated and controlled by the corporate elite, we need to find digital common spaces. We need to find the role of the individual in the construction of our socio-spatial future.”

- This Space Is Not For Sale « SB129

(via Methane: Good Gas, Bad Gas - Photo Gallery - Pictures, More...

Sun, 23 Dec 2012 06:54:17 -0500

(via Methane: Good Gas, Bad Gas - Photo Gallery - Pictures, More From National Geographic Magazine)

(via 6 | Infographic: Mapping Three Years Of Clicks And...

Fri, 14 Dec 2012 07:03:40 -0500

(via 6 | Infographic: Mapping Three Years Of Clicks And Keystrokes | Co.Design: business innovation design)

Can you spot it (by Mattias Adolfsson)

Wed, 12 Dec 2012 07:19:40 -0500

Can you spot it (by Mattias Adolfsson)

"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot..."

Wed, 12 Dec 2012 07:07:59 -0500

“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.”

- Alvin Toffler (via bashford)

"Finally, we need to change the way that we collectively think about data, so that it is not a new..."

Wed, 05 Dec 2012 10:36:13 -0500

“Finally, we need to change the way that we collectively think about data, so that it is not a new oil, but instead a new kind of resource entirely. For this to occur we need to foster a deep understanding of data in society.”

- Big Data Is Not the New Oil - Jer Thorp - Harvard Business Review

"I never drew a cloud: I preferred to the draw the earth/ground symbol. You don’t connect to..."

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 09:37:52 -0500

“I never drew a cloud: I preferred to the draw the earth/ground symbol. You don’t connect to the cloud, you ground off to the internet. It seems like a better metaphor: computing flows through physical pipes, popping up in data centres and road-side boxes and telegraph poles. The cloud is a lie.”

- scraplab: The Full Spectrum White Noise of the Network