How can digital interfaces help people meet and collaborate – Heresay & Little Printer – Literature Interests



How can digital interfaces help people meet and collaborate – Heresay & Little Printer – Literature Interests

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How can digital interfaces help people meet and collaborate

Systems that:

  • Build or reinforce social ties
  • Go beyond screen-based interfaces
  • Place information found on the web in new contexts

Interfaces designed for collaboration

Vitamin Design Lego Calendar

Heresay & Little Printer

With Mark Simpkins at Central Saint Martins

Mapping hyperlocal forums

Social Mirror

RSA / Civic Media Centre

Process

Wonkbook.io

  • Open brief
  • Many iterations
  • Creatively responding to the data
  • Database design intrinsically linked to visual design

Wikipedia book of the dead

Dolan index Hybrid measure Pope John Paul II Michael Jackson Michael Jackson Jesus John F. Kennedy Ronald Reagan Gerald Ford Jimi Hendrix Mircea Eliade Abraham Lincoln Peter Jennings Adolf Hitler John Lennon Albert Einstein Adolf Hitler William Shakespeare Harry S. Truman Charles Darwin Ronald Reagan Oscar Wilde J. R. R. Tolkien Woodrow Wilson James Brown Isaac Newton
  • Editorialising new tech
  • Graph theory
  • Knowledge of data sources

Literature Interests

  • Graph theory - Albert-László Barabási
  • Sociology of the workplace - Richard Sennet
  • Economics of liquid organisations - Yanis Varoufakis
  • Social capital - Pierre Bourdieu (via Mike Savage)
  • Deliberative Democracy - James S. Fishkin

Steam - Yanis Varoufakis

Methodology - examples

  • Hub Westminster Twitter treatment
  • Sonic expression of digital infrastructure in an office space

Timing

  • Why now for me
  • Why now, generally
  • The opportunity I see in current projects