Dear yr 2 Design Dialogues class

The degree show opens on friday night at 7.30 in the Foyle Arts.

At some point during the proceedings I hope to Auction the dowels and sticks. (the Beautiful interesting things project)
(no lower reserve prices, everything must go)

It would be great to see as many of you there as possible. You can if you wish bid for your own work.

I am open to ideas as to what to do with the proceeds. Suggestions welcome. The default position is that I will give the money to a rep from the Design dialogues 2011 class.

Anto

Dear all yr 2 students

There is a placement opportunity with local computing firm Singularity in their Design team.

Work would suit a student with interest in graphic design or interaction design

The placement will last one year and would qualify under the Diploma in Industrial Studies.

Please contact me if you are interested

anton

Imagine Create: Yr 1 design has been working with Padriac Lynch and in his class they came up with this nice video. just chirpy stuff!

TypeFun At Magee. from Padraic Lynch on Vimeo.

This week’s research seminar will be given by Anton: tomorrow (Tuesday 29 March) 16.15-17.00 in MQ226. Hope to see lots of you there, Cormac

The Internet of Things

In this talk, for the purposes of quickly getting into an idea, Anthony Hutton will adopt the persona of a machine made in China in 2012.

This brief was originally proposed by former DES320 student Mark Douglas

– call me! – txt me! – fb me! – tweet me!- email me!

People always have so much on their minds and remembering to call someone can become quite a challenge so a product needs to be designed that can be slid into everyone’s everyday life to eliminate forgotten contact arrangements and frustrating forgetfulness to call someone

Deliverables:

Description of situation (1/2 page) – wk10

Brief – wk 11 (1/2 page) extending the brief

Postcard from the begining  (Jpeg image 450px wide, not moore than 30k file size) – wk10

A3 sketchbook – wk13

Youtube video presentation – wk13

Jyri Engestrom talks about defining a core social object. I think its a key idea in developing mobile apps.

Not including games are there really only 4 classes of apps?

1. Fixed content apps

A fixed body of content is displayed in the app. The style of presentation is often very compelling. For example:

The knot app

Pocket Universe

2. Task apps

The app connects to a service either on the phone or in the network that enables it to do something. For example:

A spirit level app

A webcam viewer app                        eg: my webcam

3. Social apps

The users supply the content. For example:

A twitter client

A photo sharing app

4. Combinations of 1,2,3

A combination of classes 1,2 and 3 above. For example; a GPS app that enables you and friends to meet at a Pizza place nearby.