Identity and functional variations

"McQueen made this ensemble with carved prosthetic legs for Aimee Mullins. Mullins is a world-class Paralympic athlete, and she modeled the boots for his 1999 show, No. 13. (Source)"

Article at Oddee about prosthetic limbs

the home as an biological machine....

A different perspective in understanding the kitchen environment. Almost like a living organism...

Lovely representation of the design process

 

Squiggle by Damien Newman. He could have had this as a tattoo. IDEO has this on their T-shirts.
  
http://v2.centralstory.com/about/squiggle/

Unaccessible experience design

Spotify faced challenges when updateing their service to an improved look. Despite the great interface, people with reduced sight can no longer use the sevice.

Read more at aftonbladet news article (in Swedish):
http://www.aftonbladet.se/nojesbladet/article18712503.ab

Accessibility is a democratic challenge, and media needs to be accessible. This was discussed during Mg2014, in Gothenburg. (Mediadagarna) (In Swedish):
 http://www.dyslexi.org/tidningen-las-skriv/medier-vem

There is already great competence availible to support accessibility. Begripsam, a project about cognitive accessibility, is funded by Arvsfonden. In this project, people with cognitive disabilties are paid to contribute with the their knowledge to international and swedish standards.  (In swedish).
 http://www.dyslexi.org/tidningen-las-skriv/vi-vill-ha-en-begripligare-varld-9772

Computer suggesting tastes

Computers can support creativity, also in the kitchen! 
I think this is a great example of how computers can support creativity, and still make creativity something fun and essentially human. Its is like computational music composition that support musicians to try new sounds as a startingpoint for their creativity. Computational support can extend peoples mind and speed up the road to new associations? Distributed cognition it is? :-)

TV and accessibility

Swedish Television is working on various aspects of accessibility on their Play site. We hope that other organisations that communicate with video will follow. One day this will be standard. And there will be lots of use, also useful for people without disabilities.

The video is in swedish.

"I waited almost 20 years to be able to take a picture,"

"I simply can't imagine anything more useful to me."

Because - who is perfect?

Everyone is perfect. 

http://blog.petflow.com/this-is-so-touching-everyone-should-watch-this-at-least-once/

Design in HCI and outside HCI

Is HCI solving problems for the real world or are we developing solutions that fit our field of interests more than it solves the real problem?

What do we include in our methods in HCI and what do we exclude? Do we know our own limitations? What do we miss by not fully being trained as designers?

A thougthful article about a design school...