Unexpected Narratives and Creating the Right Conditions

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@michaelsurtees | unexpected narratives and creating the right conditions | february 4th, 2010 | http://designnotes.info/?cat=102

overview
1. story line
2. Agile
3. Hybrid Graphic
design
4. Content is the
new ui


story
line


http://www.vimeo.com/6975248


Watching the
sun interact
with design


Shooting the sky
everyday


36 days of New York
Sky: January 16th 2008
to February 20th 2008


New York City Colour
Study Timeline


New York City Colour
Study – Time when
photo was taken graph


Starting the
#walkingtoworktoday
photo project


Experimenting
with Fragmented
Medias while
#walkingtoworktoday


#walkingtoworktoday


unexpected narratives


Design notes, the blog
http://designnotes.info


why i blog


why I blog
i do it for myself
There’s no huge growth goal to get a certain number of visits or comments. By doing it for myself it gives me a lot of freedom
to explore the things I want to. In turn I hope others enjoy the things I collect on DesignNotes. But if no one ends up visiting,
that’s ok b/c I wrote what I did because I wanted to.

i do it to remember
You’re more likely to remember something if you’ve written about it. Now that I’m remembering all that stuff, I need to figure
out a way to apply that knowledge. (Suggestions welcome)

i do it to keep my mind active
Just like when I take photos to help me see, the same can be said about writing for my blog. If you’re actively thinking about the
world around you, it makes you better informed to make decisions.

i do it to meet likeminded people
I can’t imagine where I would be if I hadn’t taken those first steps to post an idea. I’ve been very lucky that there have been
readers of DesignNotes that have turned into friends and it’s been a great resource to bounce ideas off of.

i do it because i can
The fact that it is so insanely easy to be a publisher that only eight or ten years ago would have been impossible. The overhead
is extremely low… It’s important for me to explore all options for communication. I’m a designer, if you’re not willing to try to
understand all the options people have to express ideas, how is it possible to give the most informed ideas possible?


Design notes
content types
interviews
Five to six conversations with a person I’m interested in knowing more about

book reviews
Attempting twelve a year, talking about design related books within the context of what I got out of them

experiences
Commenting on everyday design experiences. Could be a response to an interaction, product or something
I’ve come across in a normal day.

link drop
Sharing posts and sites that worth talking about on a weekly basis.

design work
Mentioning projects that that have gone live, talking about the process of how something came to be.


Deborah Adler
ClearRx Interview


“
Information Hierarchy—(order, position, type size, contrast, leading,
alignment and choice of typefaces) is another important factor to a
functional and clear label.

These two elements coupled with the consumer’s point of view

for doctors to find in a short amount
It will also
is crucial to the success of the labels legibility.
make drug safety information easier

of time. Not only did I want the labels to be functional and
easy to understand, but it interested me that by understanding
adult schemas for taking medication, the label has the possibility
of increasing memory.
–deborah adler


An interview with
John Gargiulo,
owner of Swich
in NYC


“
I always said on my 30th birthday if I
hadn’t yet taken a big risk in life and
started a company or something big,
I had to quit my job on that day and
figure something out fast. I guess I got anxious
because on my 26th birthday I walked into Cliff’s office and retired
from advertising. I developed a business plan, found an investor, and
a year and a half later in December of last year, we opened our doors.
–john gargiulo


The Person behind
Nooka: an interview
with Matthew Waldman


“
Adults don’t think about it much, but time is calculated in base 12
[or base 24] when almost everything else we calculate is base 10.

These concepts are difficult for some
children and must be taught. If
something must be taught, then it
is not intuitive… which brought all the
background processes above together
and I questioned why there were only
2 ways to represent time.
–matthew waldman


Alissia
Melka-Teichroew
Interview: designer,
founder of byAMT,
curator, and maker


“
Q: Do you design for yourself, have a person in mind or
something else entirely?

Something else entirely I think,
however it’s like buying presents.
You usually buy something for
someone else that somewhere
you also enjoy because it is more
fun that way—it’s more genuine
if you do it that way.
–alissia melka–teichroew


QuadCamera and
ToyCamera Interview
with Takayuki
Fukatsu, creator
of iPhone Apps


“
So as a first step I want to suggest that “cheap and uncontrollable is
fun”. That’s why ToyCamera only has random effect. I wanted to pick
up the essence of uncontrollable fun of actual ToyCameras.
Also I want to make my ToyCamera as
Camera not application. That’s why there is no
Undo, Redo, and import taken photo from album.
–takayuki fukatsu


A great conversation
with swissmiss


“
I vividly remember visiting an exhibit showcasing David Carsons
work. I was truly fascinated by his ‘freestyle graphic design’, even
I always had
though it was clear that it wasn’t for me.
the gridded-white-space-driven-swiss-
designer in me. Now, I can clearly say, that Josef
Müller-Brockmann’s work was, and still is, one of my
biggest influences.
–swissmiss (tina roth eisenberg)


Look Both Ways
by Debbie Millman


I Miss My Pencil by
Martin Bone and
Kara Johnson


Banksy at work in NYC:
Broadway & Howard St.


My walking experience
with the AIGA NY
ALPHABET/CITY:
A WALKING TOUR WITH
TOBIAS FRERE-JONES


The Flo
in Florent


My Link Drop Process


My Link Drop Process
· Save links to delicious
· Start placing links into wordpress Wednesday and Thursday
· Reorder links once I have 20–25
· Take screen grabs of sites
· Upload screen grabs to flickr
· Place photos into a post
· Start writing why I think the link is worth reading
· Collect themes on paper
· Upload diagram to flickr and include in post
· Mark all tags
· Publish


LINK DROP


LINK DROP themes


LINK DROP today
http://linkdroptoday.com


agile


“
Unknowns

There are known knowns. These are
things we know that we know. There
are known unknowns. That is to say,
there are things that we now know
we don’t know. But there are also
unknown unknowns. These are things
we do not know we don’t know.
–donald rumsfeld
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unknown_unknown


Waterfall

A. Requirements
B. Design
C. Implementation
D. Testing
E. Maintenance

Agile
· Requirements and solutions evolve
through collaboration
· Frequent inspection and adaptation
· Tasks are broken into small parts
with minimal planning
· Emphasize face–t0–face communication
over written documents
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_software_development


Project road map*

*The route will change

team

Everyone share’s the same mental picture


different paths

Working in tandem

Moving forward

Circling back


Daylife


smart galleries


smart galleries
with designnotes


hybrid
Graphic
design

What is the
logo worth?


Face pics are
the new logo


Company Deal
Announcements


How does a designer
work with this?


Lean Pocket
Info Fail


Confusing MTA
Subway Turnstiles


the Locksmith’s
Business Card


Flexing scale, marks
and other consistent
things that brands
could be


Little Brooklyn


Design Sale

If you use the design It’s complimentary.
If you don’t it will cost you $10,000


Quotes to remember

“
as a designer
you read best what you read most
Zuzana Licko mentions in 1990, while more recently during the 2008
if the news is
US Presidential Election a student quipped
that important, it will find me. They’re
universal truths that are applicable to almost anything. It’s not a
tech. thing, it’s not a print thing, it is a people experience thing.
Everyone interprets their experiences the way they choose to—
whether it’s consciously or subconsciously.


Content
is the
new ui

My News Flow
on Flight 1549


Can your product
design idea:
Follow others
Set Privacy
Copy + paste
Save stuff
Embed
Connect
Arduino with it
Print

How my iPhone evolved
how I tell stories


Sketching out
a blog post loop


Thinking about
twitter feeding
facebook status


More buy and vote
on demand, and
distributing
things in digital


More buy and vote
on demand, and
distributing
things in digital
Read it, print it out, share it widely.
Do some sort of cool auto–tuned
new liberal arts remix


Talking Sticker


Podcasts are now
magazines, magazines
are what newspapers
used to be, and music
files are now…


24hr music app for
the iPhone


Showing Competitors
on a Product Site


Inside Out with
Invader in NYC


Still photography
and video evolution


http://www.vimeo.com/6763173


Thank you aiga
Dallas / Fort Worth


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