sometimes i wonder if people are this self-centered…
Tag archives: American
Dollar ReDe$ign Project
16Jul09I miss out on this but i still can see why we can’t still keep posting ideas for a new currency. Seriously we been needing a newal a long time, the whole dollar coin is one example of no design common sense! no one accepted the one dollar coin cause it feels like a quarter! but this is a good example how to flat line the country to see what their citizens want for a new money currency. I LOVE IT!
here are some examples:
how ads are reaching teenagers…
30Jun09considering how we are pushing social media and getting advertisements from such places like twitter, myspace, youtube, facebook and still teenagers (the pioneers at playing and keeping up with the lastest stuff) are still influence by old technological habits TELEVISION! and people say tv will die…… it will but very slowly.
via LINK.
Service Design out look
29Jun09Service design, while often talked about in academia, is getting more and more attention from design companies and service providers, as the impact of experience design has been proven to increase customer satisfaction and brand perception. This isn’t to say that service design is only about the customer’s experience; while that’s a big part of it, service designers also look at the delivery of the service, its operational efficiency, and its scalability from a design point of view. They focus on designing both the overall service, an intangible exchange like using a bank account or renting a car, and each of the touch points within the service, which may be tangible products like a bank statement, website or or rental car. Service designers map the way that a service is experienced over time and each of the interactions within the experience.
list of priorities towards good service design:
IMMEDIACY
CO-CREATION
VOICE
EXPERTISE
CUSTOMIZATION
This is a good article that helps me to understand in detail about service design. heck i never got a degree in “service design” but for many people how can you say that you got a degree into that field. This field comes with experience when working in multiple backgrounds…
via Service Design | Creativity Online.
check out her slides:
Is There an App For That?
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Facebook affects college studies?
08Jun09Study Finds Link Between Facebook Use, Lower Grades in College.
to be honest, i think this person is very bias. because when you finish the article the writers states this:
The popularity of Facebook is evident in college lecture halls, Karpinski said. Faculty members who allow students to use laptops in class have told her they often see students on the Facebook site during class.
“It’s not going away anytime soon, and we need to learn more about how Facebook use is affecting students,” she said.
As for herself, Karpinski said she doesn’t have a Facebook account, although her co-author does.
“For me, I think Facebook is a huge distraction,” she said.
This is a small pet peeve of mine: with any research whether it is design research or socialogoical research, we need to see both sides of the coin to make a our arguement feasible. For her she only document Ohio State, I did not got to school there but being there for a short time it is just like U of D – delaware, a party school + a dedicted school, so you students are so black or white in all things, you have no “grey” landscape of people who loves to party and loves to work. so it is fudging the numbers that i don’t like.
Also when doing a data display, why only facebook? whatever happen to friendster or MySpace when they first came out? Where are those results, they have been around longer and has more entertainments on their site than facebook. Again she did not do a thorough investigation of her research.
Just don’t make the mistake of being opinionated without facts to back you up, for me i highly valued everyone’s opinions and love how they heartly believe in their ideals, but i admire those that actually questions and think about thier beliefs.
sorry, felt like quipping….
kindle parting…
19May09via LINK
While we were having a difficult time disassembling the Kindle 2, the rear cover of the Kindle was removed. Looking down the inside of the Kindle, the engineer said, “The cost must be very high. It’s really filled with components.” In fact, with a number of parts crammed in the small space, it gave us the impression of “a heap of parts.”
Looking at it more carefully, there was another substrate mounted on a part of the main board. It was an SD memory card slot. This is the only “two-structured” and thick part of the main board. In fact, the back side of the Kindle slopes along this part, making it look “distorted.”
“I think they designed the chassis after designing the board,” the engineer said.
In the mean time, the back cover of the Kindle 2 was taken off after some struggles.
We finally took off the back cover of the Kindle 2, sometime after removing the back cover of the Kindle.
“Oh, this is very tidy,” said the engineer who participated in the teardown. “They completely revamped the design.”
The exposed main boards of the new and old Kindles were clearly different from each other. While the old one was crammed with components, there was no double that the new one had much fewer parts and was well organized.
To analyze the main boards in detail, we removed them from the front covers of the chassis and looked at the back sides of the boards. The back side of the new Kindle’s main board was mounted with no part. In contrast, many components, including Samsung Electronics Co Ltd’s 256-Mbyte NAND flash memory, were found on the back of the old Kindle’s main board, reinforcing the impression that the old model is complicated and the new model is simple.
2009 incoming calls
11May09
Time spent eating…
06May09via LINK
they posted this chart to present “discuss” on eating time verses obesity and completely agree that it is what we eat and how we enjoy food – like tasting/savoring the food then eating fast.
BUT, beside the obesity stats… look at how much time we spent eating verses the rest of the world! NO WONDER WE ARE ANGRY + STRESSED! an hour lunch break is too short and worst most employees don’t bother with an hour…fifteen minutes flat – inhale the food and back to work….
Food is social and social is food… most people eat within a company of people which helps to spread conversation, ideas, creativity, inspiration, and renewal of energy for the day. Do you feel happy eating by yourself?
New way for E-INK–video style
04May09
A new display technology could make electronic paper look more like the real thing. Conventional ink on paper has a much higher brightness and black-and-white color contrast than electronic paper. The new display, made by researchers at the University of Cincinnati, in Ohio, is designed to match the brilliance and contrast of paper. “We’ve demonstrated a technology where you have the brightness of paper, and color has the same saturation that you expect from printed media,” says electrical- and computer-engineering professor Jason Heikenfeld, who led the work, which was published in Nature Photonics.
The pixels also switch between black and white within one millisecond, making the technology suitable for video (LCDs currently switch in a few milliseconds). A slower refresh speed of tens to hundreds of milliseconds is one of the main issues plaguing current e-paper.
So far, Heikenfeld and his colleagues have made rigid black-and-white displays that reflect 55 percent of ambient light–far more than any electronic-paper products currently on the market. White paper reflects 85 percent of ambient light, so it looks much brighter than Heikenfeld’s system. But Heikenfeld says that the technology could be used to make full-color flexible plastic displays that have more than 60 percent brilliance, and higher-grade materials and manufacturing processes should eventually make his device almost as bright as white paper.
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