Archive for February, 2010


Personal motivations

In wrote down what I wanted for my graduation project. I have done this the last couple of weeks. These are not all my findings, but a summary what I thought would be a good basis for my project.

Interests

design - graphic design - usability - little things that make the difference - visuals - new forms of interaction - new interpretations - trends - interactive art - the night - light - colors - ambient - abandoned buildings - deserted public places - new alternative ideas - frontier - bizarre humor - humor - shiny - psychedelic - thoughtful things - premise - underlying message - endurance - solid - science - international - atmosphere - look - feel - research - user testing - piracy - privacy - hacking - future - books - movies - animation - comics - music - special effects - unique games - thoughtful gameplay - nature - biology - ergonomy

My skills and things I like to do

design - drafting - research - empathizing with the user - understanding context - understanding users - groupwork - knowing how people work - working visually - direct feedback - building physical things - praktical work - going abroad - being responsible - discovering - experiencing - discussions - traveling - new uncharted areas - make people aware of new developments - RFID

Things I don’t want to do

programming - bury myself in literature - production work - 40 hours a week behind the desk

Things I want to improve

thinking out of the box - alternative solutions - giving presentations - clearly convey ideas - express myself more - more toward object design - industrial design

Tags and inspiration

the smell and taste of electronica - old school electronics - mechanics - radars and clock work - ink & magnetism - haptic interfaces - brain waves - multitouch - pico projector - data visualization - data logging - context aware - physicial computing - connection between digital and physical

All my Keywords

All my Keywords

As most people know, I have chosen the Master program, or EMMA for that matter. It means that the program will be a bit more theoretic and the focus will be on expanding and contextualizing the understanding of human-machine interaction. I will be go more deeply in the subject than the Bachelor program, for instance. I will be busy until September, and then I will be done!

My start is a bit rough, because I don’t know yet what I want to do. Of course, I have some areas were I’m interested in. I need some time to focus myself on the subjects, and make a choice what I really want to do. I think this is hard, because suddenly I’m all on my own again. The past 3 years I’ve been working mostly in group projects, so it’s a bit though for me to flip the switch. I will start with writing down what I really want, what I’m good at, what I don’t want and so on. This I will use as a base for my subject.

Moleskine Reporter

Moleskine Reporter

To write down my ideas and inspirational things everywhere and anytime, I bought a Moleskine. A small, practical notebook. Previously I had a big one, not very easy to carry with me. In the next post I will publish my findings.

Utrecht

So my goal to post regularly failed. Maybe because I’m not fond on telling the world what I’m up to and telling about my average personal adventures. Same reason why I have a twitter account, but don’t find the motivation to tell about my “unexceptional life”. Twitter is mostly used as personal jibber-jabber platform, for the world to read. I don’t care that you hate snow, the battery of your phone is almost dead or you just arrived at work. Retro, silly animation, but hits spot on:

What I mean is that I find only a small portion of the tweets useful, mainly from tech-blogs or people who are deeply involved in innovation and design. There is a lot of noise in the information stream you get, and this can easily replaced by an aggregator like Google Reader. Twitter is an interesting platform for sure, but I think it’s mainly used for the wrong reason. Maybe I should learn to look past the noise, or appreciate what everybody thinks.

Anyways, I’ve been busy the past half year. To much to tell I think (and not very interesting). One of the main events is that I moved from Hilversum to Utrecht. I live in a nice, big room in almost the center of the city. Here I will stay until I’m done with my studies.

I’m starting with blogging again because I want to keep track of my graduation project for my study Interaction Design. It will be a good reference of my process.

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