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There is now a lull in work until the edited transcripts of the interviews I carried out in the UK come back, and excitingly enough, the publishers now have a picture of the book on their website. The title translates into English as “Permanent Exhibitions: Potential and challenges of a museological form” and yours truly has submitted six interviews with curators from Kelvingrove, Imperial War Museum North, Wellcome Centre, Het Dolhuys (Dutch National Museum of Psychiatry), the new Museum of Liverpool and Pitt Rivers.  In celebration, I am testing out how the google docs forms work and putting together a short questionnaire to ask you wonderful people what you think and to get to know you a little better. There will be a bit at the end where you are welcome to add general suggestions for me and this blog. Link to follow! 

There is now a lull in work until the edited transcripts of the interviews I carried out in the UK come back, and excitingly enough, the publishers now have a picture of the book on their website.

The title translates into English as “Permanent Exhibitions: Potential and challenges of a museological form” and yours truly has submitted six interviews with curators from Kelvingrove, Imperial War Museum North, Wellcome Centre, Het Dolhuys (Dutch National Museum of Psychiatry), the new Museum of Liverpool and Pitt Rivers. 

In celebration, I am testing out how the google docs forms work and putting together a short questionnaire to ask you wonderful people what you think and to get to know you a little better. There will be a bit at the end where you are welcome to add general suggestions for me and this blog. Link to follow! 

Would you like a free book? Let this link to Bill Moggridge’s “Designing Interaction” book be an early Christmas present. Here’s the blurb: Digital Technology has changed the way we interact with everything from the games we play to the tools we use at work. Designers of digital technology products no longer regard their job as designing a physical object—beautiful or utilitarian—but as designing our interactions with it. In Designing Interactions, Bill Moggridge, designer of the first laptop computer (the GRiD Compass, 1981) and a founder of the design firm IDEO, tells us stories from an industry insider’s viewpoint, tracing the evolution of ideas from inspiration to outcome. Moggridge and his interviewees discuss why a personal computers have windows in desktops, what made Palm’s handheld organizers so successful, what turns a game into a hobby, why Google is the search engine of choice, and why 30 million people in Japan choose the i-mode service for their cell phones. And Moggridge tells the story of his own design process and explains the focus on people and prototypes that has been successful at IDEO—how the needs and desires of people can inspire innovative designs and how prototyping methods are evolving for the design of digital technology.

Would you like a free book? Let this link to Bill Moggridge’s “Designing Interaction” book be an early Christmas present.

Here’s the blurb:

Digital Technology has changed the way we interact with everything from the games we play to the tools we use at work.

Designers of digital technology products no longer regard their job as designing a physical object—beautiful or utilitarian—but as designing our interactions with it. In Designing Interactions, Bill Moggridge, designer of the first laptop computer (the GRiD Compass, 1981) and a founder of the design firm IDEO, tells us stories from an industry insider’s viewpoint, tracing the evolution of ideas from inspiration to outcome.

Moggridge and his interviewees discuss why a personal computers have windows in desktops, what made Palm’s handheld organizers so successful, what turns a game into a hobby, why Google is the search engine of choice, and why 30 million people in Japan choose the i-mode service for their cell phones. And Moggridge tells the story of his own design process and explains the focus on people and prototypes that has been successful at IDEO—how the needs and desires of people can inspire innovative designs and how prototyping methods are evolving for the design of digital technology.