dConstruct Notes – Frank Chimero, Oh God, It’s Full of Stars
These are my notes of key points from the session at Friday’s dConstruct conference…
Delightful design – The nature of the offering is the experience and the memory (experience and recollection).
Analog vs Digital
Analog is viable/digital products allow us to forget (ie. bills). Analog we find/digital we search. We own analog/it feels like we lease (pay for) digital.
Analog = OR / digital = AND
There’s an infinite with digital. Analog is a palpable stack like flipping through CD racks. The digital space doesn’t have an order (phantom file) …it’s a random collection of stuff.
The random stuff has potential.
To keep a blog or collection of stuff is not a new idea… eg. Commonplace book
Curation as authorship.
Architecture of arrangement – Finds stuff. Collects stuff. Arranges it.
Arrangement require a second pass… you have to step back and think about what you have.
Digital services are optimised for getting stuff in – not necessarily gettin stuff out.
Revisting:
Richard Saul Wurman – concept of LATCH (Location, Alphabetical, Time, Category, Hierarchy) Location
Alphabet
Time
Category
Heirarcy
(+ Location)
Arrangement:
How we move through time… Instapaper… Let’s you defer/re-surfacing content.
Old content should be able to resurface…
Biblion – New York public library
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