Design for all.
Aceessability.
People with special needs.
Who have special needs?Why)
A few more people than you think.
- The drunk teenager on the music festival .
(sound, vision, mental impairment)
- The person crossing the street while talking on the phone
(attention difficulties)
- The stressed running person at the airport.
(tunnel vision)
- A man with two shoppingbags in his hands and a stroller with a screaming child.
(physical impairment, attention difficulties)
- and many many more in a variety of situations.....
Thursday, June 20, 2013
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Life without Internet
Humans are fundamentally social creatures and the internet provides ubiquitous connectedness. But how it is to be unplugged?
"Social media services, however, are not interested in making absence easy. Senders have no way of knowing whether our nonresponsiveness is personal, technical, or something else. The services offer no “vacation mode.”
Read more at:
http://www.fastcompany.com/3012521/unplug/baratunde-thurston-leaves-the-internet
"Social media services, however, are not interested in making absence easy. Senders have no way of knowing whether our nonresponsiveness is personal, technical, or something else. The services offer no “vacation mode.”
Read more at:
http://www.fastcompany.com/3012521/unplug/baratunde-thurston-leaves-the-internet
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
How can more people contribute to design solutions?
Procumer at Wikipedia:
"Marshall McLuhan and Barrington Nevitt suggested in their 1972 book Take Today, (p. 4) that with electric technology, the consumer would become a producer. In the 1980 book, The Third Wave, futurologist Alvin Toffler coined the term "prosumer" when he predicted that the role of producers and consumers would begin to blur and merge (even though he described it in his book Future Shock from 1970). Toffler envisioned a highly saturated marketplace as mass production of standardized products began to satisfy basic consumer demands. To continue growing profit, businesses would initiate a process of mass customization, that is the mass production of highly customized products.
However, to reach a high degree of customization, consumers would have to take part in the production process especially in specifying design requirements. In a sense, this is merely an extension or broadening of the kind of relationship that many affluent clients have had with professionals like architects for many decades"
Example of procumer projects:
http://www.nesta.org.uk/home1/assets/features/make_things_do_stuff
Related is also:
DIY
"Prosumerise" (i.e. the combined needs of the consumer, prosumer and enterprise) (from Wikipedia)
"Marshall McLuhan and Barrington Nevitt suggested in their 1972 book Take Today, (p. 4) that with electric technology, the consumer would become a producer. In the 1980 book, The Third Wave, futurologist Alvin Toffler coined the term "prosumer" when he predicted that the role of producers and consumers would begin to blur and merge (even though he described it in his book Future Shock from 1970). Toffler envisioned a highly saturated marketplace as mass production of standardized products began to satisfy basic consumer demands. To continue growing profit, businesses would initiate a process of mass customization, that is the mass production of highly customized products.
However, to reach a high degree of customization, consumers would have to take part in the production process especially in specifying design requirements. In a sense, this is merely an extension or broadening of the kind of relationship that many affluent clients have had with professionals like architects for many decades"
Example of procumer projects:
http://www.nesta.org.uk/home1/assets/features/make_things_do_stuff
Related is also:
DIY
"Prosumerise" (i.e. the combined needs of the consumer, prosumer and enterprise) (from Wikipedia)
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