June 2012
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Result
May 2012
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April 2012
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Concept explores by prototyping
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Brainstorming
long long time ago, I did two brainstormings. You may ask why does every design process involve this section? that’s a good question, but i am not gong to talk about it in this post.
Since brainstorming is not a new method in the ideation process at all. I would like to approach something new. Here is how I did one brainstorming ONLINE.
Basically, the way how to do it is very easy. I...
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A quote
“We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.”
-Marshall McLuhan
March 2012
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Thoughts and finds
At the beginning of the this project, my initial motivation is based on our experience that most aspects of our daily lives have been changed by network. Digital content as a new medium has been used widely as memorials to remind a person, an event or a period of old time. Since all the date probably will exist a much longer time than our life. It becomes a first time in the human history that...
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Personas
I draft two personas who are story teller and supporter.
Story Teller: Mikael Hujosson
Age: 75 Gender: Male Job: he is retirement, but he still works as a photographer, because he like it.
He lives in Norsjö for entire life. There is 3 generations in her family. Besides one boy and one girl, he also has 2 grandkids and 2 great grandkids. All of his kids are living in the south of Sweden, One...
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Inspirations
Last week, we had a research presentation. Six weeks have already passed. From This week, I am moving to an ideation phase. In this post, I collected some projects from other talents that are interesting and impressed.
http://giveaminute.info/ Give a Minute is a new kind of public dialogue. It only takes a minute to think about improving your city and publish your ideas online.
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February 2012
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A digital time capsule
Last week I did a probe-kit trying to find out what people would like to put in a time capsule for future and who will be the receivers.
In this leaflet, people has been asked to record one day for 2022. They can do three things includes: Take a photo of yourself Take a photo of a place you love right now Write or draw a message to the future (in box below) Record/ Broadcast what is on...
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City Tickets
These days, I have been browsing some students’ projects for inspirations.
This project explores how we can use Pay-and-display parking ticket machines to make cities more responsive to the needs of those who live in them, and proposes a service through which ticket machines become a communication channel between citizens and their local authorities. Here is the link:...
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A video clip from my interviews
This 5 mins long video shows an overview of my interview and where I am interested in.
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Some highlights from interviews
In order to get a whole picture of people’s life in Norsjö, I did 17 interviews there. The youngest interviewee is only 7 years old and the oldest one is over 80.
Last week, I also interviewed two elders who are participating in a project about writing down the stories of their hometown that happened in the past. That supports my brainchild that people need a tool or service to help them to...
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Hello Norsjö
I am in Norsjö this week for doing user research. Norsjö is a small town located in the north of Sweden. There are 4400 inhabitants, half of them living in two urban areas of Norsjö. And there are 500 companies registered in the municipality, half of them are one man businesses.
Since it is such a small city, almost everyone knows each other. So I am the only stranger here and become the...
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Reincarnation
I started the initial studies in a very unfocused fashion, since memory is a massive topic and also I do not have any knowledge and contact with Norsjö municipality at the beginning of the research phase. By reading articles and academic papers, I had few interesting thoughts about memories that are relevant to digital contents mostly.
In some religions, people believe a concept where the soul or...
January 2012
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Time Table
The project will be carried out during the spring semester 2012 and will be presented in the end of the term for school and sponsors.
The whole schedule (16 weeks) is divided into 3 main phases, which are research, ideation, and design (prototyping and filming). The scale of each of them is 5 weeks, 3 weeks and 8 weeks.
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A negative mirror
A quote from Invisible Cities, by Italo Calvino… I love this book, because it captures everything that is wonderful and bittersweet about traveling. All the cities that are described in it are glamorous and thought-provoking. “a negative mirror” might be one interesting approach of my degree project.
Marco enters a city; he sees someone in a square living a life or an instant...
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Prototyping or not?
Today is the first day of the journey. After a kickoff presentation in the morning, I did few research about prototyping which will be a part of my design result. In general, there is an image in my mind of my finial concept that probably is a service (device) which can be accessed or controlled with people’s smart phone. That means i have to design an application demo to run on an iphone. ...
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What is this all about?
I am an Interaction Design student at the Umeå Institute of Design and this is going to be a work log of my degree project which is called as “project D” temporarily. During the spring semester I’ll be working with Norsjö municipality to approach few concepts about using memories for developing and creating a better future.
