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CHI design competition 2010

Our design paper has been accepted to CHI 2010 Student Design Competition, Atlanta, Georgia. The competition received close to 90 submissions from around the world, our team submitted one of the top 12 papers. Selected as Top 4 entries for second round poster presentation on 14th of April  and also awarded as one of Top 3rd place finalist in the final round on 15th of April 2010.

13rd, April- Second round Judging of the 12 teams- Select Top 4 for third round (no ranking).

 

 

 

14th, April Public viewing of team posters and Student design competition Spotlight

 

 

15th, April Third round( Final presentation by four finalists and announcement of winners and ranking)2 minutes to set-up, 15 minutes to present and 5 minutes for questions.

 

 

More information:

FootPal- Build social rivalries around maintainable walking habits

www.chi2010.org/attending/CHI-2010-final-program.pdf

Welcome to the world without facebook- China

I got a funny yet creative comment from a friend of mine from Jiang Xi, China after i posted a video’s link to the wall.

I guess It is true that many Chinese in China have no idea what Facebook is since they have the Chinese’s Facebook Ren Ren and other similar services like KaiXin, Peng You, Weibo & Jie Pang  a lot of people still do not bother to buy VPNs to circumvent the ‘Great Firewall.

According to Mashable, another creepy thing recently is the unborn baby photo and FB page, it might be good for parent to keep track on the children life and for people interact with a new life.

I wonder in the future will it be even a dead person’s fb? I do have a friend died in a horrible accident who is dead and all of sudden her FB just hang it there and sometime appeared when i try to browse my friend list, until now I am not sure should i keep it or delete it.

Besides using VPNs in China to log in FB, I also collected some interesting video link about FB & Social Media.

References: Photo from Mashable

BarCamp Shanghai 2012

It is always fun to attend event organized by Techyizu, this is another tech event I love in Shanghai after UX day Designing Shanghai. There is no doubt you definitely meet a lot of Techies, Entrepreneurs, Social Innovators and Like-Minded Geeks, local or expat.

There is many talk in BarCamp Shanghai 2012, a lot of people gathered in Markup room out of six different room just for Frog Asia’s talk and workshop, presented by Brandon Edwards (Creative Director and Co-founder: frog Asia) and Kajal Vatsa (Senior Design Researcher: frog Asia).

Same like UX day, they have weibo for people in the event interact with each other, you can send your weibo message to communicate with other. Another interactive way is scan your QR code to see the event and talk topic detail information, people using their phone and search for the talk they like.

3d printing

3d printing

3d printing

I like this speech the most, the American Chinese speaker interestingly shared the UX related case studies and got my full attention for entire speech and jot down lot of note regarding his sharing tips. May be one of the reason is he is also a former banker and current Apple retail owner, so I assumed his talk should be related to my interest in retail, visual merchandising and UX.

It is always good to use title like 6 lessons or  principle kinda headline to attract audience, you will instantly know this is a shortcut learning tips. Of course, his headline attract a lot people fully occupied the room.

Lesson 1 is about simple, navigator before arrive, not to get lost, and user experience in a space. bad UX like point & shoot, too complex, too many steps to get into menu. Good easy sharing photo UX like Instagram is growing up. Angry bird’s carton graphical yet simple UI, the conclusion is more visual and less ad.

Lesson 2 is create stickiness. He indicated DAT and Groupon bad UX, UI is not sticky to customer. Good example like Amazon is good for shipping, more you spend more you ship tactic drive sales to product. Also, like BBM, the more people in a network the harder to leave the community. Apparently, FB also strong in making log in user based to stick in.

Lesson 3 discussed about bad Barbie Doll’s store shopping experience compare to American doll from Chicago, which is more personalize, have a story behind, 14 years in US and it flagship in NYC.

Lesson 4 is about user exploration, he use Disneyland as example. Even people lost  in Disney land , they can always find the way back, and you will always notice where the castle is. The space planning with decent guide is the key. And IKEA, always a common case for comparison even in other talk. Always easy to find a way moving to the same direction and lead the user well. For the bad space planning such as Vegas Casino, bad in making user have no sense of time in a dark lighting space and get hang over; ATM  is everywhere may be just good for the owner.

For social media networking site Facebook, you can do everything in FB, with forum, News, Photo, Farm games, mutual friend and likes then always see the home button to go back. The booming Pinterest, the freedom of sharing and keep a photo, always get you back in a second.

Lesson 5 explained fashion brand like Zara have a good “Limited Pieces” strategy, user come back after 2 weeks might not see the same pieces display and always back with surprises. Gilt luxury label created the sense of season product, invitation only deal. Finally Microsoft VS Apple, Microsoft’s future vision strategy always release the next interaction or product VS Apple never announce early before product launch in the market, created the curiosity for Apple fans and make them wait and wait and urged for the new i-product.

Lesson 6 transcend the physical using Amazon selling e-book compare to physical content as good example and how wikipedia using the certain amount of interaction.

6 UX principle

Anything related to Objective C will draw my attention too, his talk is based on the *Sh*t Coder never say” concept.

Another one of the interesting talk by Toine Rooijmans, in his talk also attracted the crowd and he shared some interesting fact about Chinese housewives, and SEO optimization , everybody collecting point for no reason, 95% user return daily and only 5 % actually collecting rewards page.

His strategy is using small fee delivery, landing page for big UI button, colorful interface and weibo style and people using DianPing link and how housewives helped to promote by giving them some reward, even RMB 1 or 2 can leverage Chinese user to do anything according to the system generated task.

One of the awesome kid present his thought in the event and teach you how to build a robot, I like when he asking around with his English accent :” Anybody have any question?”

The use of game design technique and mechanics to solve problem.

After party

After party

Word press log in problem

After tried out many different blog service before, finally paid and fully engaged with wordpress use it services. The only disappointed thing so far is the log in problem. You will never find a log in every time when you type the domain address and it only show follow but never show a log in button. Isn’t LOG IN an important function for blogger?

It will create frustration for user like me if every time i need to google “word press log in” and spend a few second to search the right site to log in, sometime even need to click on a few site then i can only log in to my blog.

Thanks god after watching the how to find a log in tutorial, which is a easier way to log in by typing wp-login.php. Still, I’d prefer just add a button for me to log in.

12hr Mobile App Hackathon workshop 2011

When I received the FB invitation from Jackie and thinks: ” Gosh, this is awesome! Hackathon in 12 hour?” Is it possible?

Yes, this is possible! After attended my first ever the home-style workshop at Taipei, just like The Social Network movie, the only different is we are not in dormitory but a house.

Final work of the day

Original Idea

Global Service Design Jam 2012 : Cookies Pirates 1_Design thinking Part

I thought the most crazy workshop I’ve tried in the past event is 12hr Mobile App Hackathon but this one is 48 hours for a brand new service design workshop. Compare to the 27 hour real life company I organized before in Taiwan. 48 hour is really a bit long for service design, 48 hour should be enough for 2 workshop in a company. Since this is a global event which is globally 2,061 jammers participated from 85 cities in almost 40 countries.Nearly 350 brand new service designs and published them for the world.

36 dedicated jammers with 11 nationalities split into 5 teams

One man’s trash is another man’s treasure

We have a cool talented B-boy musician/rapper Filosopher who is also got a moniker Mr.Ikea came out the topic and bring all of us together to form a group, the original group name is something like trashy treasure, but then we all agree to changed group name to Cookies Pirates.

Day 1 is mainly Service design introduction & group announcement, topic announcement and group brainstorming. I was suppose to join the Dream team but realized too many people in that group, after walked around different other group, My instinct tell me this is the group I should join, after mingle around with other trash treasure member, I decided to stick with the trash related group.

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Once the group member is decided, we all started the brainstorming section and quickly throw out a lot of idea and topic based on “One man’s trash is another man’s treasure” orignal idea. At the beginning, everyone briefly introduce and share what we are good at, this section is good for us have an idea what is the final outcome we can produce.

And then we all have to come out at least 10 ideas without thinking too long, total of 70 ideas is created at the first stage and we all talked about own idea and group the similar ideas together.

Total 70 ideas from each team member.

We used Group Ideation, Brain Writing, Trigger Method (1)and 3 type of way for nurturant ideas phase (2).

After filtered all the potential ideas, we selected 3 main ideas and decided stop discussion and vote for our favorite, each people  have only 1 vote.

The final ideas is below:

1. Travel

2. Home/ Homeless

3. Changing people behavior 

The final 3 main ideas.

Even my home ideas got 4 point, we continued discussion the next day based on this result.

Everyone talked about a big long run thought about environmental friendly and back to nature, we decided to focus this final service in Shanghai. It seems a bit too hard to continued with this topic with 48 hour, in the end this topic is rejected. It will good if this is a week workshop so it might be a good impact to talk about environment protection issue in China.

Rejected ideas

References:

1. http://personalexcellence.co/blog/25-brainstorming-techniques/

2. http://www.usabilitynet.org/tools/brainstorming.htm

China’s First Anual Party of the Creative Community

There is a lot creative event recently named China first…event, after first UX day in China, this is another social event which I think is a lot better and bigger than other regular social networking event. They creatively decorated the event with illustration card board, and make people who attend the event look fabulous like a celebrity event, nice food, exhibition and lucky draw which is a lot of fun! Definitely worth to go again for second time.

You can drop your name card for lucky draw and get your badge which represent you the most.

Draw at least once a week

One of my new year resolution is draw at least once a week and blog about it.

I recall back in graduate school in my animation class and illustration class, my teacher always wanted us to draw everyday and every time take 4 hours a day to draw in a class, no matter in studio drawing, sketching, marker pen, water color or computer drawing class. Once you stopped you just feel like can’t draw anymore, that is why it is in one of my new year resolution list, and I just have to draw again.

I told my teacher I want to focus on more character design and I think i just have to start focus on this part again as my drawing direction. I started to collect more human figure and style in Pinterest as my inspiration, until now after 2 weeks I’ve quite a good collection already to move forward.

Why learn French or more languages?

Why learn French?

Here is some personal reason why I should learn French first:

1. I've met too many French or people around me who speaks French since 2008.
2. I've too many university mate who is French.
3. I've some French client past 5 years and they appreciated my design and concept.
4. French is a lovely language make me feel like speaking singing at the same time and it is romantic. 
5. Since 2009, my uni-mate Antoine give me lot of French movie in the university, and I promised him I'll learn French.

And I posted some fact I found below, get some interesting feedback from my friend:

Je parle un peu français..

French distinguishes between tu (familiar) and vous (formal/plural). French is the largest donor of foreign words in English, it is spoken as a native language in more than two dozen countries on five continents.

It is the second most commonly taught second language in the world (after English), making it a real possibility that speaking French will come in handy.

In 2003, the United States was France’s leading investor, accounting for 25% of the new jobs created in France from foreign investment. There are 2,400 US companies in France generating 240,000 jobs. American companies with offices in France include IBM, Microsoft, Mattel, Dow Chemical, SaraLee, Ford, Coca-Cola, AT&T, Motorola, Johnson & Johnson, Ford, and Hewlett Packard.

France is the second leading investor in the United States: more than 3,000 French companies have subsidiaries in the US and generate some 700,000 jobs, including Mack Trucks, Zenith, RCA-Thomson, Bic, and Dannon.

French is the 3rd most frequently spoken non-English language in US homes  and the second most commonly taught foreign language in the United States (after Spanish).

French is ranked the 2nd most influential language in the world.

http://french.about.com/od/francophonie/a/whylearnfrench_2.htm

Also, these are the creative video to learn a foreign language which i think is worth to check it out.

Why learn more languages?

Started from 2007, I spent my time in TamKang University to learn Mandarin and it was a fun experience to learn Chinese with foreign student, my classmate from German, America, Canada, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia and Japan. It is definitely a culture shock for me and it was one of my fun experience in life!

I think 2008 is my most international year ever, after become a full time student in National Chiao Tung University.

2008 New NCTU international student

Sometime I appreciated other people who record and write about something you don’t realize or care about, recently I find these people pretty inspiring and worth to check out how they respect the culture and foreign languages. And so far i think this guy did a pretty good job!

http://www.fluentin3months.com/about/

http://www.fluentin3months.com/

Benny Lewis – Fluent in Three Months – Rapid Language Hacking

Polyglot tour of flat in 8 languages and 6 dialects

Some other interesting people worth to check it out.

Mark Powers

A fun channel about westerner VS oriental

Gangway
Caboose
a la mode
Five finger discourt
beater
visit the can
pacifier
douche
rag baby
blacktop
horse sense
butterface- this is the most funniest.

Aubergine- eggplant

Bogey

Chav- a young lower-class person who behaves badly and wears designer clothes (usually fake).

Chuffed- Pleased, delighted. I am chuffed!

Flapjack-

Faff- to muck about, wasting time doing something not necessary. (I’ve been faffing about all day with my car)

Numpty- Stupid person

Humpty Dumpty

Spiffing- Very posh and dated word meaning excellent, especially as used by upper-class toffs and rugger buggers. (He’s a spiffing bloke)

Slash

Nosh- There was lots of nosh at the party

Fit- Sexy

Winkle- An alternative word for penis mainly used by parents when talking to their children.”Andrew, stop touching your winkle!”

So what i will do is start from French! Understand the culture and speak everyday! Although i still have many languages need to pick up and the 3 months 1 language is good idea to learn a new language.

 

This could be good start channel to learn

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The 1st UX-conference in Shanghai

It was exciting to be part of it in the 1st UX-conference in Shanghai, I arrived early morning at 7.30a.m. but the event started at 9.a.m. May be we are too exciting for the event and helped to set up a bit to welcome other visitor to the event.

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Examples of products/sites that used personas

*Personas tied to specific projects:*

* Critical Mass provided QVC.com [1] with personas

* Whittmanhart helped St. Jude with fundraising [2] (not sure which campaign
though) with personas
* Etrade [3] used personas for its IVR
* Staples built personas for their website [4]

* Discover Financial Services used personas for their website [5]
* Avenue A/Razorfish created personas for a Slimfast [6] email campaign
* Quarry helped Nortel [7] create personas for Sales Reps
* Organic built personas for Daimler [8] Chrysler [9] marketing plans

*Have used Personas, but unknown project/product: *

* Molecular built personas for Keybank [10]

* Iron Mountain [11] built personas
* Best Buy [12] built personas for a project that had something to do with
“customers who were thinking about buying flat screen TVS & cameras etc”
* Wells Fargo [13] built personas – project unknown
* Microsoft Dynamics [14] group used (60-ish!) personas for unknown
project/use
* Fidelity [15] built personas
* UPS [16] built personas

[1] http://www.qvc.com
[2] http://www.stjude.org/fundraising
[3] https://us.etrade.com/e/t/home
[4] http://www.staples.com/
[5] http://www.discovercard.com/
[6] http://www.slim-fast.com/
[7] http://www.nortel.com/
[8] http://www.daimler.com/
[9] http://www.chrysler.com/
[10] http://www.key.com/
[11] http://www.ironmountain.com
[12] http://www.bestbuy.com
[13] http://www.wellsfargo.com/
[14] http://www.microsoft.com/canada/businesssolutions/
[15] https://www.fidelity.com/
[16] http://www.ups.com

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Reference from IXDA forum

創意辦公室空間參考

為了創造更有活力和設計感的辦公環境,一下蒐集了一些還不錯的範例做case study,如果大家有喜歡的那幾張,歡迎拿出來討論看看如何適當的作為創意部門空間的改善。

Cool Hunter 里表示目前企業真正開始注重設計他們的辦公環境,裡面有介紹的這個辦公環境來自ANZ Centre in Melbourne’s Docklands
每一層樓都利用一種槍眼的顏色混搭暗沈的顏色,可以參考在公司裡面每個空間來點不一樣的新鮮感,有些鮮艷的顏色讓設計工作上也有更多的特色。

 

 

dtac House 為了在他們多變化環境地下加強公司的員工的溝通,有共同的目標,增加創意啓發,而利用了“玩樂+學習”的概念區設計他們自己的辦公室。

公司裡面還賽跑道和足球和不同的運動空間提高樂趣。

 

Macquarie Investment Bank – Sydney銀行的辦公空間利用了設計成為變化多端的主要元素去鼓勵人們工作。他們採用了一種新的概念叫Activity-Based Working (ABW),員工有彈性的選擇自己喜歡的工作環境。他們成功減少利用50%的電梯,而且一半以上的員工每天更換自己的工作環境,77%的員工喜歡這種自由有彈性的空間。

*可考慮這種做法讓各位對於煩人乏味的工作有新鮮感,創造不同的辦公位置,讓他們每天自己選擇自己喜歡的空間去完成任務,而更對自己的工作更有興趣。

 

Maurice Mentjens Design, based in Holtum, the Netherlands。一家設計和動畫公司。這家公司也陸續創作各種好評佳作。

他們利用燈管玩了一些特別的照明

 

Syzygy Agency, Hamburg 這家為了讓員工有在同一條船上的概念特別訂造了辦公位置給員工,位置也可以隨意轉過頭來討論

 

他們也是一家專門在做互動創意的公司服務,服務的客戶有Chanel, Mercedes-Benz, Mazda and Fujitsu

 

Ogilvy & Mather Guangzhou Office – A Carnival of Ideas 這絕對是讓人期待的辦公環境,並得到Most Successful Design Award 2008

他們指出在中國利用辦公環境的這個新概念策略是讓員工幫助完成結案的目標。

 

Smart employers are realizing that a creative workspace inspires greater productivity and…you guessed it, creativity.

Blog for Faya

References: http://www.thecoolhunter.net/offices

 

Why i love UX Design

 

iluvuxdesign.com/​ A fun video and website, they sell i love UX t-shirt

 

UX Company’s showcase    http://www.xplane.com/portfolio/

 

Hugh Dubberly

  • A lot of concept map info on his site
  • Case study of a site redesign

http://www.dubberly.com/articles/using-concept-maps-in-product-development.html

mind map software, often just whiteboarding or doing affinity mapping with post-its first.

swimlane diagram — different users or applications are horizontal rows (or vertical if it works better) with the taskflow for each user/grouping in its own lane, but showing the connector arrow where it interacts with a different group in another lane.

http://iainstitute.org/documents/tools/ExperienceDesignFlow_bw.pdf

 

Reference from: http://www.ixda.org/node/29736

 

Mobile interaction

http://mll.csie.ntu.edu.tw/projects.php

i pad related link

电子书下载网站

PDF/DOC格式电子书下载网站:
1、 www.docin.com
2、 wenku.baidu.com
3、 ishare.iask.sina.com.cn
EPUB格式电子书下载网站:
1、 http://www.shucang.com/
2、 http://www.cnepub.com/index/
3、 http://www.coay.com/
4、 http://bbs.weiphone.com/thread-htm-fid-224.html

List of Photographer

This is the list of photographer in the video : The Adventure Of Photography

NIÉPCE, Joseph Nicephore-

is universally credited with producing the first successful photograph in June/July 1827.

This is the first known photograph

Reference from : http://www.rleggat.com/photohistory/history/niepce.htm


DAGUERRE, Louis Jacques Mande-

the most famous of several people who invented photography.

Taken in 1839, this picture of a boulevard gives the impression of empty streets, because with long exposures moving objects would not register.

Reference from:  http://www.rleggat.com/photohistory/history/daguerr.htm

Daguerrian Society’s web-sitehttp://www.daguerre.org/resource/texts.html

Hippolyte Bayard-

(20 January 1807 – 14 May 1887) was one of the earliest photographers in the history of photography, inventing his own photography process known as direct positive printing and presenting the world’s first public exhibition of photographs on 24 June 1839.

Drownedman

Reference from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippolyte_Bayard

William-Henry Fox Talbot

A British inventor, born on February 11, 1800 and died on September 17, 1877. He was the inventor of calotype process, the precursor to most photographic processes of the 19th and 20th centuries. He was also a noted photographer who made major contributions to the development of photography as an artistic medium. His work in the 1840s on photo-mechanical reproduction led to the creation of the photoglyphic engraving process, the precursor to photogravure. Talbot is also remembered as the holder of a patent which, some say, affected the early development of commercial photography in Britain. Additionally, he made some important early photographs of OxfordParis, and York.[1]

Reference from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Fox_Talbot

Gustave LE GRAY

Timothy H.O’SULLIVAN

Eadweard CURTIS- Catured Tndiana for more than 30 years

WEEGEE- Juwish born child

Auguste Salzmann

Felix Teynard

Edouard- Denis Baldus

Bisson Brothers

Gabriel De Rumine

Constain

Jules

Itier

Samuel Bourne

Marc Ferrez

4. EXlife in N41°- Primary School in Hakodate

日本涵館工作坊4:涵館弥生小學校-五十年後的涵館規劃

工作坊涵館研究記錄4

他們把我們帶到校長室,校長也親切的出來和我們打招呼歡迎我們的參觀
小學的老師也跟我們解釋小學的事故。

小學裡的牆上到處可看到以小學為主題的

我們去到最高那一樓,也是歷史物收藏最多的地方,據導覽員而言,涵館市早在50年前已經規劃50年後的城市規劃而且也把模型給見出來,當我看到50年前的模型感受特別強,尤其看到他們把細節都做得相當詳細。

古董琴

我們看到這桌子就聯想到以前小學的桌椅也和他們的一樣,不論馬來西亞,台灣或日本原來也是一樣的。

古董電話系列






For more information:

Paper of the workshop

www.scenariolab.com.tw/blog

http://www2.hcu.edu.tw/scenario

2008 交換劇本計畫 Scenario exchange 2008/ EXlife in N41°

主辦單位:

台灣:國立交通大學、工研院創意中心、應用劇本實驗室

日本:公立未來大學、國立山梨大學

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