{"id":504,"date":"2009-07-07T11:19:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-07T10:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/?p=504"},"modified":"2009-07-07T12:53:44","modified_gmt":"2009-07-07T11:53:44","slug":"somewhere-i-have-never-travelled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/2009\/07\/somewhere-i-have-never-travelled\/","title":{"rendered":"Somewhere I have never travelled"},"content":{"rendered":"

This presentation by Brendan Dawes – http:\/\/www.brendandawes.com\/<\/a> (powered by WordPress)<\/p>\n

Brendan quite into data – “data porn” – visualising data. Saying that much of the web is still designed as if it’s in print.<\/p>\n

Making ‘weird creatures’ out of keywords http:\/\/www.brendandawes.com\/?s=redux – ‘creatures’ size indicates popularity, speed they move depends on age – but this stuff doesn’t come with an instruction manual – there is nowhere that these links between data and behaviour is documented for the ‘end user’ – but just putting it out there, and trying it out.<\/p>\n

‘Interfaces’ are important – Brendan likes to collect ideas in ‘Field Notes’ books – http:\/\/fieldnotesbrand.com\/<\/a>. Also has a firewire drive full of ‘doodles’ as his ‘digital notebook’ – just bits and pieces of stuff that may do one thing – e.g. a drawing app, that allows you to draw things in black ink – that sat there for ages, he did nothing with it. Then had an idea that he wanted to be able put stuff on lines that he had drawn – found something that someone else had done online – and he had put that on his digital notebook.<\/p>\n

Brendan wanted to do something http:\/\/www.daylife.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

(aside – When you design stuff for people, avoid colours – as people can dump a perfectly good idea if you’ve done it in the wrong colour! Use black and white, because it doesn’t upset anyone \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

What would happen if we removed interfaces completely? Allowed people to build their own interface?<\/p>\n

So – all of these bits and pieces came together as http:\/\/doodlebuzz.com\/<\/a> – allows you to do a search – then you draw a line to see the results displayed.<\/p>\n

Memoryshare<\/a> – a BBC project to share memories. Original version had a rather dull interface – didn’t engage people, so not very good usage – although the content is very compelling when you start reading. Brendan and team did a range of prototypes – very open brief – basically do anything you want.<\/p>\n

Took ideas done with the Daylife example – displaying time based events on a spiral line – great ‘wow’ moment when you see the spiral on the screen, and then as you zoom in it becomes obvious that it is a 3d environment – very, very pretty! Original demo was in Flash, which couldn’t cope with the amount of data in memoryshare – but the BBC really liked design, so figured out how to do it – see the results at http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/dna\/memoryshare\/<\/a> – compare this to the old design at the Internet Archive Wayback Machine<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Brendan now moving onto using data to produce physical objects – mentioned a site I didn’t get (Update: thanks to @nicoleharris<\/a> got this now http:\/\/www.ponoko.com\/make-and-sell\/how-to-make<\/a><\/em>) that allows you to upload a design and get it made – so for example Brendan has had some wooden luggage tags made with data displayed on them. Moo.com has an API – you can pump data in and get physical objects out. Brendan has written something that takes data from wefeelfine.org<\/a> and pushes to moo.com<\/a> to make cards – transfers transient digital data into less transient physical data<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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