How do you transform a 1990s-era website into a photo-rich, community-supported, content-rich discovery portal? Break it down to its component parts and rebuild to showcase crowdsourced images accessible through simple, persistent navigation. This week: Site analysis, concept sketch, and flow diagram. Next week: Wireframes.
Category Archives: Concepts
Disruptive Thinking ~ Recollecting the Muse: The Literary Reading, Redesigned (A Manifesto)
In spite of innovation in performance, publishing and technology, literary readings are presented much the same as they were when, in 1922, James Joyce read from his freshly-printed copy of Ulysses at a podium in Paris’s packed Shakespeare & Co. bookstore. The reading is a … Read More →
The Fountain of Memory ~ Re-Visioning the Fontaine Saint-Michel
Built between 1858 and 1860, the Fontaine Saint-Michel presides over the entrance to Paris’s Latin Quarter. Known both as meeting place and wishing well, crowds gather at the fountain in all weather. One might see someone turn their back and toss a coin over their … Read More →
Core Experience & UX Design: Remind my future self…
The busy semester’s concurrent deadlines make it difficult for me to remember to do the little things that keep life at home running smoothly. Whether it’s picking up shampoo from the pharmacy or buying milk on the way home, when life gets busy these activities … Read More →
The Fun Theory ~ Young people save for retirement, buy stuff AND accrue nestegg
I started saving for retirement two years after starting my first post-college job, but the weekly deductions felt abstract. Incentives like “tax savings” and “capitalized interest” and “future security” weren’t as powerful as the urge to splurge on dinner at WD-50, or add a new … Read More →
Postbox ~ Design Brief for a Content-Centric Conversational Space
Designing Conversational Spaces Professor Clay Shirky Collaborators: Brittany Binowski, Naliaka Wakhisi, Yonatan Ben-Simhon Decision : Idea Three ~ Postbox We decided to design a conversational space that facilitates sending and receiving physical mail. Clay asked us to send him an email detailing our project concept … Read More →
Creating Content-Centric Conversational Spaces
Creating Conversational Spaces Professor Clay Shirky Collaborators: Brittany Binowski, Naliaka Wakhisi, Yonatan Ben-Simhon Assignment Develop three ideas that are conversational spaces attached to specific content. Presentation as PDF IDEA ONE Virtual Curator: Gallery Conversations Virtual Curator transforms art lovers into curators through a unique conversational … Read More →
Human Enhancement, fashionably ~ Final Presentation ~ Cloak : Digital Camouflage
Fashioning Technology: Installation + Intervention Professor Amanda Parkes Cloak is fashion textile and mobile application that helps you regain and retain control of your digital identity.
MoMA Gallery Talks Go Online?
Cabinets of Wonder Professor Nancy Hechinger Collaborators: Ji Hyun Lee, Luisa Pereira Hors, Rose Schlossberg Assignment/Challenge “Think about the challenge posed by Beth Harris, Director of Digital Learning: ‘How to translate the magic of what happens on a great gallery talk to the online experience. … Read More →
Human enhancement, fashionably…
Fashioning Technology: Installation + Intervention Professor Amanda Parkes Inspiration Octopuses and cuttlefish. These animals change their skin color and, in some cases, skin texture to blend into their environment, hiding themselves from predators. Some species also use skin color to communicate. Scenario Documentation is ubiquitous. … Read More →
Transitional Collaborative Space ~ Notes Toward a Recontextualization of the Bobst Library Lobby
Fashioning Technology: Installation + Intervention Professor Amanda Parkes Assigned to document a social situation in an NYU environment, then “sketch and describe an alternative to [the] documented situation that reflects an augmentation, intervention, or recontextualization of the social paradigm,” I decided to visit the Elmer … Read More →
Discover Great Buildings ~ Wireframes
My wireframes for the proposed new Great Buildings homepage and content page are inspired by the Bing search landing page and Flickr’s photo pages. On the homepage, I imagine users arriving to find a refreshed image of a building pulled from the Great Buildings collection. … Read More →