This article by Alexander Dawson, posted on SixRevisions, suggests museum way-finding and interactivity as a strategy for thinking about web site design. Rather than bringing new technology into museums or expanding the museum out of it’s physical space, this article articulates how a...

Designer John Maeda talks about his path from a Seattle Tofu factory to his design career and finally to RISD. Maeda, a tireless experimenter and witty observer, explores the crucial moment when design met computers. It starts out from the non-computer users versus computer users, acceptance...

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/04/10/magazine/radiolab.html This is a neat project by Radiolab, using remixed sound effects to communicate ideas. Interestingly, one of the sound categories is “Thousands of fireflies flashing in sync,” which relates to the original SYNC...

The Obama campaign would be the first time that Branding and Design played a pivotal role in a presidential bid. Scott Thomas, the design director, shares the key ideas that allowed them to deliver a consistent and clear branding through both the web and print. It’s interesting that they...

In network technology and especially smart technology, the benefit of these devices is that they are cognitive and can think on their own. However, these cognitive smart devices are great for expected benefits but have lots of unexpected consequences and dangers due to the...

An interesting talk where he shares certain perspective about the sketching mindset and holistic experience design. He shares similar ideas with Mike Kuniavsky where he explains that it’s now impossible to think of design products or screenshots but user experience. Designing for...

Group: Nastia, Andrew, Molly and Ariella Common ideas that bridge new information environments and design can be found in our essays. Each of the papers discuss the relationship between genre and Moreville’s notion of changing formats. Of relevance, the implications of cultural...

Our Group: Andrew, Ariella, Molly and Nastia. Based on the essays, our common ideas refer to new forms of information and media; the way people interact with information and navigate in new environments, and the importance of context and people’s backgrounds and needs. We also were talking...

Lecture by Bill Moggridge (designer of the first laptop computer) at the 2007 Stanford University Human Computer Interaction Seminar. The examples come mainly from his book, Designing Interactions. The lecture is about an hour long and it’s followed by Q&A. It deals with all three...

Framing Interactions in New Information Environments: A Synthesis of Readings in Systems Theory, Networked Technology and Embodiment Design is situated in an ever-changing world. Design also has the power to facilitate large-scale change by connecting people and resources, and by ...

Information environments are communicating to individuals in new ways. Systems that make individual prediction and recommendations have become a ubiquitous part of Internet shopping and entertainment, whether they are viewed as helpful or not. It is evident that designers of networked systems...

Elbert Hubbard once said that ‘he who influences the thoughts of his times influences the times that follow.’ This is especially true for designers in the 21st century. With the impact of design thinking spreading to multifarious arenas such as business, education and engineering,...

“Working together. A synthesis of three themes: system theory, embodiment and network technology” Most activities people implement are about interaction; when we interact with objects or environments we communicate with information represented (embodied) via media. In different situations...

Designers are designing for complex systems, dynamic platforms and diverse users. Designing for new information environments requires consideration of many concepts including, embodiment, and systems theory and network technology. Antonio Damasio, approaches embodiment in The Feelings of What...

Broadening the scope of design: a synthesis of themes related to embodiment, network technology, and systems theory Design exists because people exist. No matter the scope or size of a problem, anything designed (by one who claims the title “designer” or otherwise) serves some...

Nadya’s text was an approach to networking technology focusing on crowdsourcing, this link is an interesting look at volunteering for the digital world and how museums are using crowdsourcing! http://www.museumnext.org/2010/blog/crowdsourcing-the-museum

“RoboEarth is a World Wide Web for robots: a giant network and database repository where robots can share information and learn from each other about their behavior and their environment.” This is a massive network that connects robots in order to share knowledge. Robots can upload...

      The Venn Diagram showing connections and main ideas of three categories: systems theory, network technology and embodiment. Also I found a picture by the photographer Kim Holtermand that could be a metaphorical illustration of the systems theories, network technology and...

For my ven diagram I focused mainly on building out network technology and embodiment because I feel like I have a pretty good grasp on systems theory. As, I worked through the text, I found that I saw overlaps with systems theory everywhere. This is still really rough but it has helped me...

This venn diagram is expanded to enlarge the areas that show the similarities between my group members topics and my topic. As I was reading their sources, I was surprised at how many similarities my topic had with theirs, even down to the same terminology. I was not expecting to find so much...