While mobile has glimmered my mind for years, it never really had my focal attention. I guess since the dynamics were less attractive to me; mostly because of the Telecom-attitude: we know what is good for you. Lately I’m more and more convinced about mobile as having a future.
Not only is mobile interesting from a [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Observe'
The PC will Die
March 7th, 2010 · No Comments · Interaction design, Observe, technology
Spolsky Quits Blogging
March 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · Inspiration, Interesting, Observe, technology
Joel Spolsky founder of Fog Creek software and blogger at Joel on Software is quiting blogging with a modest marketing campaign. Perhaps he is right, perhaps he is wrong. I personally appreciated his blog even-though his articles were often print-quality level. Like a true blogger he says goodbye with an insightful personal post with some important lessons:
To really [...]
Tags:blogging·joespolsky·marketing
Fixation
February 28th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Interesting, Observe
What if — opposite to one’s believes or studies — a person actually performs better doing a completely different job? It seems several people around me are ‘caught’ in this behaviour. Even if I cannot look inside theirs hearts and minds, they do seem to be aware of it themselves as well. But due to [...]
Tags:career·maslow·motivation
Thoughtless Acts on Steroids
February 21st, 2010 · No Comments · Inspiration, Interesting, Observe, Participation
A trademark of American product-design I almost dare call it. Observing how people really use or abuse products is what gave IDEO and alike their reason of existence. The book from IDEO designer Jane Fulton Suri called Thoughtless Act? Observations on Intuitive Design is from 2005 but still very relevant. The book is a collection of observations on [...]
Indie Love
February 20th, 2010 · No Comments · Design, Inspiration, Observe, technology
Although I’m not much of a gamer the discovery Samorost 2 and more recently Osmos (see video below) makes me want to play games. The creators of Osmos call their game an ambient game. And this type of game attract me — as a non-gamer — much more. I imagine these type of games is [...]
Innovation on the Edges
November 11th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Inspiration, Interesting, Observe, Participation, social media
Lately I’ve been reading more on innovation — where and what enables it. A common denominator seems to be related with *bottom-up* or to be more precise on **the edges**. In this article an overview of interesting research and a couple of visionaries who are evangelising that: innovation is happening on the edges.
First [...]
Tags:bigshift·deloitte·edges·innovation
Conciseness of Media Art
October 17th, 2009 · No Comments · Events, Observe, technology
This week I’ve visited the Impakt festival with a friend. We went to the event called Dopes To Infinity. We saw a cinema performance by Guy Sherwin, a music performance by Core of the Coalmen. After seeing these two events we were baffled.
Obviously I’m a completely ignorant person when it comes to media art [...]
Improve this Blog
October 16th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Inspiration, Observe
Since you reading this I want to ask you something. I want to make this blog better. And I’m a bit out of ideas on how to improve it.
Do you have any suggestions? Which topics you would like to see, or that my writing style is horrible? All input is welcome, you might [...]
Tags:cocreation·improvement·opinion·zen
Backchannel tijdens Studium Generale Utrecht
September 28th, 2009 · No Comments · Observe, Trends, social media
Terwijl wetenschappelijk Nederland in de aula van het Academiegebouw zat in Utrecht bij de lezing van Piet van Ierland en Marlou van Campen in de reeks ‘Plug in’ (onderdeel van Studium Generale). Zaten anderen — in hun eigen aula — de lezing ‘live’ te volgen via de streaming video en gebruikten daarbij onder andere Twitter [...]
Tags:backchannel·hashtag·sguu·tweetstorm
Renaissance Teacher
September 18th, 2009 · No Comments · Friends, Inspiration, Interesting, Observe, Participation, technology
[This post is in Dutch]
*Bijgewerkt Dinsdag, 20 Oktober 2009 — Verbeterde audio kwaliteit*
Guido Crolla of Denkbeeldhouwer stuurde mij vandaag een presentatie die hij aan eerstejaars studenten van de HAN (Hogeschool van Arnhem en Nijmegen) geeft. Een buitengewoon boeiende uiteenzetting van de tijdsgeest en waar we met zijn allen mee bezig zouden moeten zijn. Zo’n presentatie [...]
