This document discusses various ways of using time to one's advantage. It discusses (1) pacing layers to balance short and long term priorities, (2) using tools like scenarios, timelines and calendars to plan for uncertainty over different time horizons, and (3) the ability to mentally travel through time to the past and future to imagine various scenarios. The document advocates archiving ideas over time so they can be rediscovered later, and using design fiction to envision potential futures.

1. Using time to your
advantage
Sjors Timmer, UXCampBrighton 2013

2. Load time

3. Sprint planning

4. We’ve rapidly increased our grip on miliseconds, but what about the decades?

5. 1. Pace layers
2. Tools of
uncertainty
3. Mental
time travel

6. Pace layers

7. Every form of civilisation is a wise
equilibrium between firm substructure
and roaring liberty
!
- Eugen Rosenstock-Huessey
!
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The Clock of the Long Now - Stewart Brand

8. Pace layering
in Stewart Brand - The Clock of the Long Now -

9. Information architecture
Peter Morville - The Speed of Information Architecture

10. User Experience
Jesse James Garett - The elements of user experience

11. User Experience
Time
Jesse James Garett - The elements of user experience

12. Pace layering
in Stewart Brand - The Clock of the Long Now -

13. Tools of uncertainty

14. The further we look into the
future
Time
Present
Future

15. The higher the degree of
uncertainty
Degree of
uncertainty
Time
Present
Future

16. Cone of uncertainty
Degree of
uncertainty
Present
Time
Future

19. We build “designer environments” in which
human reason is able to far outstrip the
computational ambit of the unaugmented
biological brain.
!
- Andy Clark
in Being There

20. After 4000 years of hard work
we wound up with a neat system of
seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks,
months and years to break the infinity of
time into manageable chunks.

21. And
a matching set of artefacts, like clocks,
calendars and timelines to make the
system tangible

22. A set of tools and design
patterns
Scenarios
Degree of
uncertainty
Timeline
Planner
Present
Calendar
Future

23. Life planner

24. We’d all be better off if the Earth would
round the sun in five years instead of
one

25. Orbit
Orbit on iOS7 paper edition

26. Mental time travel

27. Mental time travel comprises the mental
reconstruction of personal events from the
past and the mental construction of possible
events in the future.
!
- Thomas Suddendorf and Michael
Corballis
in Mental time travel and the evolution of the human
mind, Genetic, Social, and General Psychology
Monographs, 1997

28. Procedural Semantic
Edinburgh is
the capital of
Scotland
Episodic

29. Scenarios of futures (and pasts)

30. And now a bit of a leap

31. Archiving the models allowed architects to
keep the traces of creativity […]; dearchiving them meant they could rediscover
those traces of design invention that time
had left intact.
!
- Albena Yaneva
Made by the Office for Metropolitan Architecture: an ethnography of design, 2009, page 65

32. http://www.archined.nl/en/reviews/2010/engels/blue-foam/

33. The biggest part of our work [...] disappears
automatically. [...] But you can't look at
these designs as waste. They're ideas; they
will survive in books.
!
- Rem Koolhaas
We're Building Assembly-Line Cities and Buildings, Der Spiegel 2011

34. OMA book machine
http://www.dezeen.com/2010/05/05/oma-bookmachine-at-the-architectural-association/

35. What are our archives?

41. Archive
Now
Fiction

42. The now is a forwards moving point
between archive and fiction

43. Design fiction

44. Design fiction
Design fiction
http://www.urbanixdsummerschool.eu/resources/projects/fabrika-split/

45. Summary

46. Pace layering
in Stewart Brand - The Clock of the Long Now -

47. Tools of uncertainty
Scenarios
Degree of
uncertainty
Timeline
Planner
Present
Calendar
Future

48. Mental time travel
Archive
Now
Fiction

49. Thank you
Sjors Timmer, UXCampBrighton 2013