Ben Arent — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:23:34 GMT

Hi Andrew,

I saw your posting on the hot-list of del.ico.us. I found the article a very interesting read. I’m just about to graduate from my product design degree, of which I have tried to focus on interaction from a very human factors (usefull) manor. I have found that my degree has focused more on ‘experience’ than the traditional of ID. For my dissertation I undertook a range of empirical based methods to understand how technology related product / services / experiences could be better designed. The result was to use these insights to create ‘experiance prototypes (bill buxton style) and to review this with real muliple users in differing situations and contexts. You can see a digram on my website. http://www.benarent.co.uk/bog/dissertation/

On a side note, when Bill Gaver introduced Cultural probes in 1999, a main part of his presentation was that there was to be no analysis of the data itself, rather that it was a point for conversation could be undertaken to greater inform disscussion.

Anyway, Great stuff!

Ben Arent — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 22:56:12 GMT

Great collection of Stuff here. I have recently had to pick up AS3 as part of a Product design project. I found that flash is great for conveing the core concpet, even if it is all smokes and mirror. I also found that a good search of the forums means you can find code snippets for just about everything. Another advantage for myself was the abilty to use a range of sensors to create a new and novel concpet. You can see my concept at http://jive.benarent.co.uk and can see my code at http://www.benarent.co.uk/bog/design/how-to-create-a-magn…

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