SMART goals for this week
- Look at examples
- Structure for literature review
- Prototyping and mockup
What I did this week
Supervisor Meeting Notes
Project considerations
- On current design
- Too on the nose
- more metaphorical
- Break down more
- what do I mean by optimisation and spatialisation
- Is their obvious representation
- connection order of spatial design linked in to optimisation
- Look at the exhibition next week
- Go in without reading the description and the look at description
- Difference between eras of digital video
- less control and more control.TV vs Youtube
- summarising other video media
- time optimisation
- Examples
- How I experience the web today
- not specific
- abstract
- How I experience the web today
Thesis Questions
- How it sits in the area of creative computing
- Make obvious you’re taking the computing to show the computing
- Do the justifications after the fact
- Introduction
- prime for the project
- little about the project
- Literature Review
- What is already there
- connect research and idea
- Take ideas to make idea a+idea b+idea c = mine or idea a -> idea b -> idea c-> = mine
- Challenge
- Clear connection between research and project
- Ideation
- conceptually
- layout argument
- Practically
- If possible add all iterations
- highlight important ones
- conceptually
I really like How I Experience the Web Today it’s a very clear piece that shows how web articles work. As an exercise and thought process I tried to mimic this piece with what I’m looking at.
Ideas
Sci fi human computer hybrid symbiote. Showing the evolution of human if we continue to “improve” time optimisation, spatial design and control. How would this domesticated creature exist on earth without technology. Digital isn’t forever it could be gone there’s many places around the world that have to load shed. Even now I’ve seen lockers that use keycards break and trap people’s belongings and people struggle to open it.
How could this be shown
- D&D boardgame make it computational digital
- A punch and judy play with robotic puppets with interaction
- Parody Star Trek or Doctor Who
I realised that I was trying to make the project interesting for me to make and not actually focusing on the fact that what I’m saying is essentially time optimisation, spatial design and control make life short, boring and stressful. So, making it interesting goes against that
- Surround audience with tasks that they can complete and will autocomplete after every few clicks the installation will ask what will you do with your free time? This would make people think about how even with all this optimisation and efficiency the free time technology promises is very rarely achieved
- sliders https://londondesignbiennale.com/pavilions/2023/mudac
- Three sliders time optimise, spatial design and control. Use these controls to show animation that shows what life looks like with different levels.
- This is gonna be difficult as I don’t have much experience with animation so to animate multiple different possibilities would probably be out of my time and skill scope. It’s a good idea but not worth it for a poor execution. I mean I could limit the options
How I experience the web Exercise
I haven’t finished the exercise yet but it made me think that maybe I could expand on this format. As I realise that the previous ideas were missing the implication that time optimisation, spatial design and control is a computer design not computers themselves. So in order to show that is just a design I could design a bunch of diegetic prototypes they don’t have to be better than what we currently have they just have to show that there’s so many different ways we could explore. It also shows the influence a design can have especially with products that are ingrained in our lives in multiple ways rather than a tool for 1 or a couple of things.
This concept I really like, I show time optimisation, spatial design and control; I show that these things are just a design and not the computer; The audience can interact with it closely and immerse themselves without me having to try and personalise it to them.
This also feels very doable, I’m the most confident in HTML and javascript. It’s interesting for me to make. I could even add more to the immersion and installation part I could set it up like tech departments in stores where they have all the different types of computers everywhere but instead of marketing different hardware I’m marketing different OS.
https://uxdesign.cc/the-worst-volume-control-ui-in-the-world-60713dc86950