To create a framework of tools for open source education.
Wordpress
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So far, this is looking like a candidate for thesis. If that ends up being the case, then a year.
For now, DT student. Later on anyone with an interest in a topic that is offered on Skill Share.
Tech: database, server, domain.
Design: an identity.
There’s not much else I can say about this reading other than I have to agree with Alan Cooper. He’s right about metaphors. They’re not only problematic because of the reasons he offered, but because metaphors are only as successful as how familiar it is to a person. Final cut pro, for example, has a blade as the icon for the editing tool. This makes sense to a person that has edited actual film before, but it’s not so helpful for someone that is using FCP as their first tool for editing footage. The person that has only dealt with digital footage in their life has to first understand the context of that blade icon. This brings up another set of issues Cooper didn’t really touch on, time and context. He mentioned that as a process grows in size and complexity the metaphor loses its efficacy. I don’t think that the metaphor fails as the process it’s representing grows, but rather it fails because it succeeds. Success makes the metaphor commonplace, a household name, if you will. So the blade, the trash can, the folder stays. They stay so long that eventually it out lives the vehicle of its existence and makes the metaphor irrelevant. Therefore, the problem is not one of scalability, but of longevity. Time and the context lost kill the metaphor.
This past summer I decided I would keep up my physical computing skills by designing a watch. I finished the circuit, but never got around to designing what the watch would look like.
Here are some precedents:
So this just sounds awesome. I’m thinking wood case, leather band. fucking sexy.
My watch doesn’t talk, but I like the idea of using the rest of this plastic I have left over from a recent project. Get some colors in the mix and my watch gets FUNKIFIED!
Defakto German One-Handed Watches
I was searching for precedents and came across this. It’s unrelated to what i want the watch to look like but I really dug the quote at the beginning of the article. It made me think about what kind of watch wearer I would be. Perhaps I should approach the watch design as a reflection of my use of it.
Aside from this being just plain awesome, I really like square faces on watches.
The site doesnt have individual pages for each watch so i’m just going to list them and you can check them out:
The Murf - Isn’t that a cool name? It’s also got a killer square face with half of the face covered by the brand and adjustment knob.
The Rotolog - I’m digging the idea of the face blending into the band seamlessly like this.
Newton - Serious, just serious. This one has a thin minimal face that i’m practically drooling over, but the real reason why i’m posting this up is it gave me an idea on how to lock the watch band differently. I’m thinking magnets in a locking shape.
I have to keep in mind that i built a circuit initially meant to hold nixie tubes as the display. Since the BCD chip i used can support 7 segment displays I have an option. Still this is a precedent.
yet another precedent that made get working on my own watch circuit.
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