Something Interesting Is Afoot
September 21, 2010 Reading an interesting interview with Odopod's Tim Barber prompted me to eject some thoughts from my head that have been percolating for way too long. When asked how the SF creative scene is doing these days Tim talks about the walls breaking down between a few different domains and the resulting "tumultuous, inventive energy." Excuse the ven…
When you look at the rhetoric coming out of these camps over the last 10 years its fascinating to think about what falls at the intersection.
- Product Design - Design Thinking + Design Strategy + Design Management etc
- Lean Startups - Agile + Customer Development + Open Frameworks etc
- Digital Agencies - Social Media + Augmented Reality + Viral etc
The sun at center of this universe is The Internet of Things and the concept of information as material that Mark Kuniavsky writes about in his new book Smart Things: Ubiquitous Computing User Experience Design. What better concept to draw together these domains than a world where it is impossible to separate them? One thing I am missing from the macro view is the role of Hollywood / Game industry and Transmedia Storytelling.
If I was in school right now I wouldn't know which way was up or where to focus. Interesting times.
Reader Comments (1)
I am so happy we are not in school right now.