2. ACTION
CIID Take Action at Reboot11
DESIGNERS FOR
ACTION
CIID SET UP AN OPEN INTERACTION DESIGN LAB
The Interaction Design Pilot Year hosted an open lab throughout the 2-day
Reboot conference. The idea was for students to act as consultants//designers/
prototyping gurus/partners on any random ideas that conference participants
wanted to share. Any ideas produced are open source and were displayed on a big
wall at the venue and published in the Reboot book and on the website.
This was the first time Reboot tried this open lab approach. It was an experiment
but almost immediately a good synergy was struck and a dialogue between the
conference participants and the students evolved naturally. The lab was located
smack-bang in the middle of the venue, so in line with the theme for this years
conference - it was action stations from the word go.
The following pages are a diary of our Reboot experience.
Text and photos by Ujjval Panchal, Alie Rose and Eilidh
Dickson
Interaction Design Pilot Year Website: www.ciid.dkds.dk
Interaction Design Pilot Year Portfolio: www.dkds.ciid.dk
Contact: info@ciid.dkds.dk
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The CIID Students Nina’s road to the Interaction Design Pilot Year has not followed the most logical path. After training as a market economist she traveled to
Nina Christoffersen
the UK to complete a Bachelors in International Management. She then returned to Copenhagen to study for a Masters in Digital Design
and Communication at the IT-University, specialising in user centered design. Nina has experience of using qualitative research methods
such as user testing, focus groups and target group analysis, and has also done concept development for web applications. She is completely
Expertise: User Centered Design
hooked on reative teamwork, idea/concept development, visual working methods and international work environments.
Nina’s Core Skills
-User Research
-Problem Framing
-Brainstorming
-Concept Development
-People Centered Designed
designers
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The CIID Students Adam studied Digital Media at Philadelphia’s Drexel University. Since graduating in 2005 he has spent his time as a website developer
Adam Little
working between New York and Philadelphia. Adam worked primarily with nonprofit clients using open source web technology both
professionally and as a volunteer. He has pursued the creative side of interactive media and technology by participating in workshops and
classes at places such as Eyebeam, Harvestworks and ITP. The majority of 2007 was spent traveling and working in Japan and Southeast
Expertise: Digital Media Design
Asia where he grew vegetables and took care of sheep at the bottom of Mt. Fuji, worked as the in house digital media
expert for a community development organization in Southern Thailand and helped a grassroots NGO in Cambodia launch a website for
their sustainable tourism venture. Adam is the youngest of three boys and a soon-to-be uncle. His family lives in Rochester, N.Y.
Adam’s Core Skills
-Scenarios and Brainstorming
-Video Prototyping
-Web Design
-Experience Prototyping
-User Research
designers
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The CIID Students Alice studied at Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Her final thesis focused on how correct information comprehension and effective interaction
Alice Pintus
with public spaces can play a crucial role in emergency situations. After graduating, she stayed on at the Politecnico, as teaching assistant
at the Final Synthesis design studio where she worked on light and interaction design projects in collaboration with professor Giovanna
Piccinno. Since 2004 she’s been working as a designer, dealing with light, furniture and information/graphic design. She has also been
Expertise: Product Design
a contemporary art researcher and is a member of the ISOLA ART CENTER, a precarious and independent art centre with a strong
alternative social impact, based in Milan. She also collaborates on Museo Aero Solar – a collective artwork initiated by Tomas Saraceno
– which is a flying museum in the form of a solar energy powered hot air balloon. She has always been very interested in the intersection
between the virtual world and its concrete representation – this is the reason she is studying at CIID
Alice’s Core Skills
-User Experience
-Concept Generation
-Re use, Recycle, Reduce
-Rapid Prototyping
-Light Design
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The CIID Students Eline has a degree in Visual Communication from the Danish Design School, with a focus on digital and interaction design. She does
Ane Eline Sørensen
conceptual and artistic work within visual interactive innovation with a strong emphasis on conveying knowledge through social design.
She has done a lot of installation pieces and exhibition design. Eline’s background is in creative entrepreneurship with a bachelor degree
from the KaosPilots, an education with focus on creative and innovative project management. From 1996 to 2003 she worked as a
Expertise: Visual Communication
freelancer in the film and television industry, as a 1st AD, director and creative producer within animation, documentary and fiction.
Ane Eline’s Core Skills
-Visualisation
-Sketching and Brainstorming
-Conceptualising
-Video Prototyping
-Experience Prototyping
designers
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The CIID Students Ashwin has taken a break from a 6-year design and writing career to join the Interaction Design Pilot Year. After graduating in psychology
Ashwin Rajan
and sociology, he found himself compulsively attracted to user-centered and interaction design projects. As well as working as a writer and
researcher, he has worn rather more ambiguous hats such as ‘information architect’ and ‘instructional designer’. Becoming increasingly
involved in interactive media, he has participated and led projects in information technology, industrial and product design, learning,
Expertise: Information Design
development, and consulting. Throughout the course of this journey, Ashwin has worked in both India and in the US and is
enthusiastic about working in other cultures globally. His leading interests as an interaction designer are the social and cultural aspects
of technology, user-driven learning and design methods & processes. He considers himself an autodidact, and loves to play the roles of
clarifierand integrator. Concepts around future societies, systems thinking, perception, and human/information relationships, among
others, are an instant draw. With a little more time at hand, Ash finds himself returning to photography, and recently, penning the first
pages of a graphic novel.
Ashwin’s Core Skills
-Information Architecture
-Instructional Design
-Service Design
-Scenarios
-Concept Generation
designers
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The CIID Students With one foot in the world of art and design and one in the field of communication systems and accessibility, Erlend works with the weld
Erlend Kyte
and glue that exists between technology, social/cultural phenomenon and visual communication, in both the physical and metaphysical
realm. With a background as a graphic designer, an Arctic ranger and a Bachelor in Communication Design, Erlend recently spent one
year in Japan researching how technology and spirituality can coexist without conflict and how to better close the digital divide between
Expertise: Communication Design
different age and social demo- graphics. Erlend believes that beauty, experience, accessibility and purpose should all be important
ingredients in the making of interaction cake.
Erlend’s Core Skills
-Visual brainstorming
-Scenario building
-Storyboarding
-Video prototyping
-Persona creation/
designers
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The CIID Students Francesco started playing with communication when he was young with stylish and purely formal graffiti. He soon realised that there was a
Francesco Mondelli
lot more to say about his social context, its controversial elements and the relationship between man and environment; so he attended the
IUAV design university where he learned the tools to be able to communicate those paradoxes, his critiques and alternative point of view.
While studying Multimedia & Visual Communication in Venice, Francesco learned about com- munication and social-responsibility
Expertise: Multimedia Design through new technologies, media and classic graphic design – his final project was an interactive web-based social software. After
graduating, he worked for 1-year as web/graphic editor of the Mondadori Books website but his passion for interaction design made him
leave Milan and move to Copenhagen to join the Interaction Design Pilot Year. He is interested in ecology, electronic music and computer
art & graphics; he usually prints his ideas and drawings on t-shirts. As often as possible, he takes hold of his Vespa and travels around the
world.
Francesco’s Core Skills
-Brainstorming
-Conceptualisation
-Future Scenarios
-Sketching and Storytelling
-Environmentally Friendly profiling
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The CIID Students Jacob likes hacking, art, people, light, workshops, low-bit music and various types of beautifully geeky stuff. He has a background in
Jacob Sikker Remin
visual/performance art and film, which he combines with his newfound skills in engineering. Jacob is the initiator of 8bit klubben, a
local Copenhagen hackers collective, producing cultural events, performances, workshops and installations. In May 2008, Jacob opened
Mikrogalleriet, a small gallery space in Nørrebro focusing on electric art and creative technology. He hopes that some of the works
Expertise: Cameras, Lights,
produced on the Interaction Design Pilot Year could fit in this context and that his Copenhagen 8bit network can somehow
blend into the CIID circle. Jacob enjoys taking strolls with his cat, cooking and making music on his gameboy.
Engineering!
Jacob’s Core Skills
-Conceptualisation
-Prototyping
-Hardware Hacking
-8 bit music
-Media Art
designers
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The CIID Students Jason is a Ph.D student in the architecture department at National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan. The lab he comes from focuses on the
JasonHsu
smart house and smart city – he looks at interaction design on an architectural and urban scale. Jason has experience of working with
very different kinds of people and as well as architecture, has worked within several disciplines including industrial design and web design.
Jason worked at a GIS (geographic information system) company to plan workflow and design the user interface. Recently, he was devoted
Expertise: Architecture to working on a local search engine which indexes location related web-pages on a map and has user-friendly mobile phone access. He has
written a number of business plans and built highly feasible business models for VC review.
Jason’s Core Skills
-Arduino
-Brainstorming
-Hardware Hack
-Rapid Software Prototype
-Scenario Design
designers
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The CIID Students Kevin Cannon is a 28-year old Irish guy, normally based in Dublin, but currently enjoying the delights Copenhagen has to offer. He’s
Kevin Cannon
enjoyed playing with things, building stuff and generally making a mess as long as he can remember. When he hit college, he briefly
experimented with computer science, before pursuing a degree in multimedia, where he learned quite a little about
quite a lot. After graduation he specialised in web & interactive design, working for a number of web design studios and then working as
Expertise: Web and Interactive a freelancer for a year. He is passionate about user interfaces and improving the utility of things. He’s frustrated by the technology we use
today and wants to make it better. Although he loves the web, he’s been experimenting with taking his passion away from the screen to
Design more physical situations. The Interaction Design Pilot Year is the next step in this process and he hopes to work with some great people
and create some amazing projects over the year.
Kevin’s Core Skills
-Information Architecture
-UI Wireframes
-Flash
-Concept analysis & refining
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The CIID Students Marcin earned a Bachelor’s in Computing Science from Poznan University of Technology. He continued his education in the area of
Marcin Ignac
Intelligent Decision Support Systems for 2-years but made the decision to leave after discovering the Intermedia course at Faculty of
Multimedia Communication at the Academy of Fine Arts where he played with interactive art installations and visualisations. During
his studies he worked part-time at Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center as an interface designer and as a freelance graphics
Expertise: Graphics, Programming
designer/programmer. His work has been exhibited twice and he has offers for further collaboration. As a member of the Polish demoscene
group DMA, he tries to move pixels in 3d space to the rhythm of electronic music. Constantly looking for inspiration he never refuses
& Interface Design
to try new interfaces and software, or to develop his own. He perceives himself to be an artist and an engineer rolled in to one, so in his
projects he tries to mix his passion for graphics with the art of programming: “I don’t do things that can’t be seen”.
Marcin’s Core Skills
-Data Visualisation
-Programming
-UI design
-Interactive Installations
-Web Design
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The CIID Students Mimi studied Interaction Design at the Landsdown Centre of Middlesex University in London. She has been teaching Interactive
Mimi Son
Storytelling at Kaywon School of Art and Design (Korea) for six years and has been working as an art director in her own studio. Her
artwork has been exhibited in Seoul, Tokyo and Barcelona. She is currently researching emotional interaction for future life and the effects
of technology from a creative approach. She is interested in exploring her surroundings with her eyes shining before creating something
Expertise: Conceptualisation &
interactive and funny based on narrative snippets from her life. She loves to play with art and nature as well as technology, which all lead
her into a creative world.
Interaction Design
Mimi’s Core Skills
-Physical Computing
-User Research
-Storytelling
-Graphic Design
-Persona creation/profiling
designers
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The CIID Students Nunzia is interested in data visualisation, interactive installations and anything that connects real and virtual worlds – such as social
Nunzia Coco
networks and info-graphics. After completing a Bachelors in Industrial Design at IUAV (University of Venice) with a multisen-
sorial thesis, Nunzia decided to remain at the same university to undertake a Masters in Visual and Multimedia Communication where
her interaction design thesis focused on collaborative sketching. Nunzia was a visual designer for the TWBA/EPG advertising agency in
Expertise: Industrial and Lisbon and for a fashion and interiors company in Italy. She has worked with a team of specialists on exhibition design projects in Milan,
for the national art gallery in Rome and on a number of editorial projects. She spent two years working with Professor Giovanni Anceschi
Communication Design on the Basic Design course at the Industrial Design University.
Nunzia’s Core Skills
-Methodical and Analytical
-Game Theory
-Group Dynamics
-Paper Prototype
-Data Visualisation
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The CIID Students Siddharth (Sid) comes from India and has a furniture and product design background. When he realised that there was a world to
Siddharth Muthyala
‘Interaction Design’ beyond video games (which he loves!) he got so excited that he promptly decided to study Interaction Design. This
decision lead him to CIID, Copenhagen, Denmark. He has worked in areas broadly ranging from Interaction Design, Product design and
Service design. He enjoys working in diverse, creative and multicultural teams. Also, he enjoy being deeply motivated by things that have
Expertise: Product and Furniture
no immediate meaning to his life, Wikipedia helps him along that road.. But now he is really,really excited about being in Denmark and to
learn something new!Expertise: Furniture & Product Design
Design
Siddharth’s Core Skills
-Prototyping
-Concept Development
-Scenario Building
-Sketching
-Toys and Play
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The CIID Students Tobias is close to completing a Masters in Design Engineering from the Technical University of Denmark and has taken a year off from
Tobias Toft
university to join the Interaction Design Pilot Year. He has always been interested in technical things like computers and electronics but
also product design, typography and graphical design. In his spare time he is trying to become a better photographer and runner – he
should also be trying to get better at drawing and playing the guitar, but for some reason he has not been practicing as much as he intended
Expertise: Programming and
to. The reason might be that he is spending too much time reading Wikipedia articles about things he does not really need to know
anything about. Like for instance, when he recently spent a whole Sunday reading about prime numbers and cryptography, for no other
Electronics
reason than that his curiosity forced him to do it!
Tobias’s Core Skills
-Electronics and Programming
-GUIs
-Visualisation
-Tangible Interfaces
-Idea Generation
designers
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The CIID Students Ujjval is an architect and a lifetime student of architecture – he studied in the School of Archi- tecture, CEPT University, Ahmedabad.
Ujjval Panchal
Over the last six years he has been working with various architects and designers mainly with Arya Architects and later with NP Flint –
Experience Design Lab. For the last two years, Ujjval has been practicing with three other fellow architects in Ahmedabad. A major part of
his interest comes from working with various alternative materi- als & crafts, new design methods and mix of new technologies/software.
Expertise: Architecture Being an architecture student, he has always been keen to inquire how design and technology can influence human experiences with
objects, spaces or environments. In his pursuit of spaces that thrive, come alive, and setup a dialogue with people and environment,
he decided to join the Interaction Design Pilot Year to explore and improve his skills and to create beautiful experiences using various
materials and technology. He sees interaction design as a culmina-tion of his various interests and it is a big opportunity and challenge for
him to use interaction design to make intelligent environments that set-up an active dialogue and experience; but also
a step forward to be able to create sustainable solutions.
Ujjval’s Core Skills
-Physical Prototyping
-Model Making
-Brainstorming
-Sketching
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The CIID Students Yves graduated in information communication with a focus on digital media design. He has a visual communication design background
Yves Chen
and loves everything to do with art. During his Master period, he focused on interactive and digital art, interaction design, emotional
design, and critical design. In his opinion, interaction design is a dynamic and innovative field focused on designing beautiful experience
for users and it can reflect contemporary and future human life. His desire is to undertake excellent projects that truly touch people.
Expertise: Digital Media Design
Yves’s Core Skills
-User Interface
-Wearable Technology
-Interactive Art,
-Visual Communication Design
-Photoshop
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The CIID Students Eilidh graduated with a degree in Innovative Product Design from the University of Dundee. During her studies she became very excited
Eilidh Dickson
about the field of service design. She uses design thinking and research methods to critically assess the needs of people to create user-
centered experiences that will have a positive impact on our society. On completion of her undergraduate degree she started exploring
service design within the public sector and soon became fascinated with the idea of designing with the user rather than for them,
Expertise: Service Design
harnessing their creativity and knowledge to co-create ideas. For the last year she worked as an intern at London based service design
agency “thinkpublic” and ran a serviceimprovement project at Wigan Renal Dialysis Unit in the UK. Eilidh strongly believes that the use
of existing and emerging technologies can have a huge impact on our lives and she is super excited to be on the Interaction Design Pilot
Year so she can learn how to apply technology in a magical way to peoples lives!
Eilidh’s Core Skills
-Scenarios
-Service Design
-Concept Development
-Paper Prototyping
-Experience Prototyping
designers
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The CIID Faculty Originally from a concept design background, Alie has worked on a portfolio of projects covering interaction design, marketing,
Alie Rose
innovation and business & technology research.Before moving to Denmark to work at the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design,
Alie was a project manager at the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea (Italy) where she was responsible for managing Applied Dreams (client
facing innovation workshops), exhibitions and communications.She took the drastic step to work in academia after living and working in
Expertise: Communications
London, where she managed design-centred projects and events for a wide range of clients. Her approach towards managing projects and
communications focuses on people, team-building and open networking.
Alie’s Core Skills
-Communication
-Project Managment
-PR
-Open Networking
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Thursday 25th June 2009
DAY 1: CIID Open Lab
Designers for Action!
Text and photos by Ujjval Panchal, Alie Rose and Eilidh Dickson
After a great on-stage powered wireless internet Next up were Marcin,
introduction by Erlend and connection attached. During Adam, Yves and Kevin who
Tobias, the day started with the session they generated worked with Espen Fjord,
some pre-planning, putting and developed concepts for Head of Development at
up our profiles and setting up new services connected to Gladsaxe Public Libraries.
the lab. Armed with markers, the idea. Why have a wifi He was interested in creating
post-its (every interaction connection on a bike? Where touch screen interfaces
designers favourite tool) could it be used?...and what to enable foreigners and
and a team of 19 interaction would be some interesting immigrants to access news
designers, the lab worked service design concepts? from their home country.
non-stop to help people drive They discussed ways to
their ideas forward. The final idea was ‘Park = prototype the ideas and drive
Free Wifi’ - which works the project further.
Over the course of the a bit like an ice-cream van
day, the diversity of people in that the cycle rings it’s
approaching the team was bell to generate interest and
really broad. They had followers, before leading
brilliant starting points them to the park. This
within a wide variety of creates a natural but mobile
industries and it was great meeting point, encouraging
to pool our knowledge small ad-hoc communities
together to help them. We to form in public spaces. The
discussed ideas ranging from students briefed Thomas
multi-touch surfaces, to solar to come up with a theme
powered wifi bikes; rapid tune so they can build an
prototyping for children, to experience prototype on day
video concepts for a Danish 2. Thinking about initial
language consultan.t stakeholders, the library
would be a good partner as
designers
it would be an excellent way
The first group of people to expand the library to an
to get snapped up were outdoor space.
Erlend, Eline, Francesco and
Nunzia who had a two hour
session, working for Thomas
Antvorskov Krag who has
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Thursday 25th June 2009
DAY 1: CIID Open Lab
Designers for Action!
Text and photos by Ujjval Panchal, Alie Rose and Eilidh Dickson
Also connected to ideas format. They gave advice In the Kindergarden
surrounding transportation; on how to make the graphic
we worked with Chris from design and layout fun and Over the two days of the
Meadow Networks. Chris engaging for people to use. conference there was a special
is an MIT alum working The second team they worked Kintergarden for children
on concepts to submit to the with was very different...they of the participants. In the
USA government. The goal helped one of the organisers Kindergarden there was lots
of her project is to develop from Palomas to organise of activities for the children,
frameworks and concepts a space they are using for a inclusing a sketching owrkshop
surrounding the future of two week camp in Berlin. and a Nintendo Wii. Sid from
transport. During the session During the camp they will CIID was also entertaining
we created sketches that conduct creative workshops some children (and adults!)
focused on the user experience. and brainstorm new ideas to by demoing his final pilot
We also discussed how take action. They also gave year project. The game he has
specific scenarios and video some tips on how to use video designed allows children to
prototyping can be used as prototypes as a promotional run about talking photographs
tools to address her design tool to promote the camp in as part of set challenges. It was
challenge. the run up towards it. great to see how engaged the
children were by it and with
While this was all going on, Kevin had the opportunity technology.
Alice was make lots of children to consult Joao from Portugal
happy, by putting her skills as who is currently changing jobs
a product designer to good use and moving into a new role
by helping them create rapid where he was planning and
prototypes of drawings they improving user flows on a large
had produced. There should be commercial site. Kevin & Joao
some 3D bugs running around had an interesting discussion
the conference very soon! about wireframing techniques,
how to use questionnaires
Throughout the day Mimi
and Tobias worked on a few
to communicate with the
client and about design
designers
as part of the design process
projects together. The first one
was with a Danish Language
consultant who wanted advice
communication.
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on re-designing an online
platform she uses to show
elements of her work in video
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Thursday 25th June 2009
DAY 1: CIID Open Lab
Designers for Action!
Text and photos by Ujjval Panchal, Alie Rose and Eilidh Dickson
Just before lunch, Ujjval and The final session to happen
Eilidh took a break from before a well earned lunch
documenting the Open Lab break was with Martin from
at Reboot and spent time Twingly.com and Martin from
working with Adam to The school of Architecture
generate ideas for Ole Høegh in Aarhus. The two Martins
Hansen who is developing came to generate ideas on
web based concepts aimed how to build an iPhone app
at improving work flow, to encourage silence. We
motivation and achieving goals suggested to that we go back
within a work place. During to the root question and
the session they facilitated brainstorm that. We asked
a brainstorming session and ‘how might we encourage
came up with some practical people to be more silent?’
solutions, as well as some and held a one minute silence
rather more crazy ones! together before engaging in
a rapid brainstorming session
with ideas around silence
booths, social contracts, silent
areas in airports and lots of
other ideas. We left them
with a big bunch of ideas and
challenged them to take action
by creating a silent experiment
later in the day. Four hours
later, the students went to find
Martin from Twingly to ask if
he’d done anything (he hadn’t
;) so they helped him create
some silence there and then.
They gathered 20 people for a
spontaneous silence which was
signified by the participants
touching a wall.
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Thursday 25th June 2009
DAY 1: CIID Open Lab
Designers for Action!
Text and photos by Ujjval Panchal, Alie Rose and Eilidh Dickson
Adam & Mimi worked with mapme (a pilot year project To sum up...day one at
Andreas Lloyd who has a from the industry workshop Reboot has been fantastic. It
food co-op called KFAX. with DSB) and physical has been great how willing
Andreas wanted to find ways magnet tools that Erlend and open people are with
to communicate his concept. has developed for his final their ideas and the number
Video prototyping was the project. The outcome for and variety of projects we
focus of interest and they Mikkel was to divide his worked on was amazing.
demonstrated how video can plan in to two phases 1) Everyone has shown so much
be a excellent tool to express explanation phase to be respect for the Open Lab
service design concepts. sketched on paper & 2) a and people have been really
Andreas was concerned that prototype which the team enthusiastic about the results
his editing skills were not up would help with on day two. of the short, sharp, effective
to making a film - but even if sessions.
this is too complex for some The final session for day one
non-interaction designers, of Reboot was run by Nina,
making a storyboard really Siddharth and Eilidh. They
helps work out what the worked with Søren Ejlersen
important aspects of the from Aarsriderne.com to
service are. visualise the core value of an
idea he was presenting to the
Elfried Klarenbeek from Climate and Energy Ministry
Plain spoke to Ane Eline the next day. The core of the
at great length regarding idea was to demonstrate the
methods for developing values of train travel. After
service design concepts. creating a series of diagrams
for Søren to present, the team
Mikkel from Openproject went armed with a video
wanted to launch a business camera to do live voxpops
reporting company including and asked the question “what
designers
data harvesting for new qualities would you like to
markets. The team worked experience when travelling
with him on how to by train”. This provided
communicate the key values additional material to support
of an abstract concept. They
boiled it down to the core
of what should be conveyed
for action
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and showed examples of
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Friday 26th June 2009
DAY 2: CIID Open Lab
Designers for Action!
Text and photos by Ujjval Panchal, Alie Rose and Eilidh Dickson
Day two started slightly more Erlend, Tobias, Francesco While all of this was going
slowly but by and Sid were asked to make on, Mellis gave a talk
mid-morning we hit the Ami from TwitterJobSearch’s about making money from
ground running with nametag the biggest attention open-source hardware.
Olf, a German product grabber at Reboot 11. The CIID students turned out
manager in a large tech students equipped the tag to support him, and a few
company and also a father with bigger text and two red, other people showed up,
of 3. He is interested in pulsating, ultrabright leds to too. The talk discussed
building a platform to make sure that nobody could Mellis’s experience from
help communication in his miss it. Arduino: who makes money
childrens’ kindergarten. on it, how, and how much.
They often use email Two ladies from a publishing He also suggested some
haphazardly to organise company approached us with alternative business models
things like BBQs and the challenge of how to scale and posed some broader
events and he thinks this their their writerclub website questions about open-source
can be improved. Tobias into something that could hardware. There was good
& Kevin went through a support building a writer discussion throughout
brain storming session with community, connecting and lots of interesting
him, discussing current users, finding texts and suggestions.
collaboration tools, social personalising profiles. Erlend,
decision making processes Sid and Francesco took up While all of this was going
and how to test ideas the gauntlet and the first on, Kevin was working on a
iteratively. Later on, he came part of the brainstorm was secret assignment to produce
back to chat to Marcin to used to find the core “selling posters for the Reboot grant
learn a little bit about Ruby points” and values. Then award nominees.
on Rails to gain some more we discussed sites that are
technical information about already doing something
building a system himself. within the same domain
as the “writes club”. The
designers
session ended with a look
through the current writer
clubs while the students gave
them tips and directions on
what to change.
for action
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33. ACTION
Friday 26th June 2009
DAY 2: CIID Open Lab
Designers for Action!
Text and photos by Ujjval Panchal, Alie Rose and Eilidh Dickson
Tobias and Sid were asked Adam, Nina and Ashwin’s One of the last sessions of
to take a look at Expono big session involved working the day was with Martston
and advise Belinda (www. with guy, a childrens science Alfred, the founder of
belinda.no) on how she can author. He was interested SugarStats.com, a site
make her new photosharing in exploring how video for diabetics’ sugar levels
website look more might work as a medium to met Kevin to discuss
userfriendly. At Reboot do what hes alredy doing how he might use data
expono.com was touted in books (Q&A learning). visualisation techniques to
as a possible flickr killer. They did some experience present information to his
They promised to send her prototyping by getting users. Kevin showed him
some simple wireframes for children to ask questions lots of examples of data
the banner and header in on video and he responded visualisation techniques,
exchange for free access to on video and observed the discussed how to use it to tell
Expono beta! Sid and Tobias children’s reactions. This was stories and provide effective
think Expono beta has some an exploration that could information to users. He
super awesome functionality well continue beyond the also showed Marston the
and love what it can do. conference. data visualisation work
done at CIID with Shawn
Eline, Francesco, Nunzia, Allen from Stamen Design.
and Erlend’s adventure with Together they came up with
Frederik and Nadia, involved a few ideas for visualisations
designing graphics to explain that would be interesting to
what their project Wikicrats sugarstats.com users.
can do. They created a
document that will be
emailed out to potential users
as a kind of ‘sign-up’.
designers
for action
at Reboot 11
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