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Mix tapes vs. digital playlists (mediation, meaningful objects and sign values)
Last week, I conducted some user studies to learn about music libraries. One of the participants commented on how cool mix tapes were yet how rarely he creates playlists in iTunes. I started to wonder… more →
Interaction Culture
Greening the Grocery Store
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jimmypierce wrote 1 year ago: Design Observer recently featured a piece on “Greening the Grocery Store” by KT Meaney, … more →
mix tapes vs. digital playlists (mediation, meaningful objects and sign values)
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jimmypierce wrote 1 year ago: Last week, I conducted some user studies to learn about music libraries. One of the participants com … more →
mix tapes vs. digital playlists (mediation, meaningful things and sign values)
jimmypierce wrote 1 year ago: Last week, I conducted some user studies to learn about music libraries. One of the participants com … more →
Are designed experiences "real"? (and other initial thoughts on Dewey and experience design)
jimmypierce wrote 1 year ago: I502 started with the question of how can we (as interaction designers) design compelling experience … more →
fictional interaction design
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jimmypierce wrote 1 year ago: …anew genre I hadn’t thought about. via http://www.core77.com/blog/technology/fictional_ … more →
interface space
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jimmypierce wrote 2 years ago: An interesting piece on some artistic explorations of interface culture. I actually think some of th … more →
Tagging as Identity Construction
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jimmypierce wrote 2 years ago: For my paper, I’ve been looking at tagging on sites like Del.icio.us and Flickr. Lots of inte … more →
Q: What is the difference between authorship and use?
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jimmypierce wrote 2 years ago: Manivich says that “Although more complex types of interactivity can be created by a computer … more →
paper topic ideas
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jimmypierce wrote 2 years ago: Manovich says “If there is a new rhetoric or aesthetic possibile here, it may have less to do … more →
Structuralist Design Methodology
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jimmypierce wrote 2 years ago: While thinking about the strengths and weaknesses of the phenomenological, hermeneutic, and structur … more →
prewriting: digital being v. physical being
jimmypierce wrote 2 years ago: We experience being-in-the-digital-world as distinct from being-in-the-physical-world. For example, … more →
Lecture Liveblog: 10-18-07
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jimmypierce wrote 2 years ago: Butter is not concrete. This butter is concrete. Give me something concrete and “that’s … more →
rationalism v. phenomenology v. activity theory
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jimmypierce wrote 2 years ago: I started to think about how different theories constrain and open up the space for design but got c … more →
the death of the viewer
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jimmypierce wrote 2 years ago: Stephen Prince argues that “To date, theory has tended to minimize the importance of perceptua … more →
What makes a primitive a primitive?
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jimmypierce wrote 2 years ago: There are two ways that undertanding and working with things becomes more challenging: it’s to … more →
Some reflections on Massively Amateur Culture
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jimmypierce wrote 2 years ago: Jeff- I really loved your presentation… and I have a few questions. Or, rather, some themes fr … more →
creativity and the design of tools, and more tools, and more tools...
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jimmypierce wrote 2 years ago: The readings so far in this course have generated so many questions in my mind having to do with the … more →
Q: Tool v. Material ?
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jimmypierce wrote 2 years ago: I meant to ask this a while ago, after Erik’s lecture… What is the difference between a … more →
Q: What is the difference b/w needs and desires?
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jimmypierce wrote 2 years ago: The dialogue following Marty’s post raises some questions about why we design, what should the … more →
