(These are my notes from Rick’s talk at the Intel HCPI 2 conference.)
Rick Robinson – Sapient
Worries for Algernon
Wrong arguments to have:
1. Focus / Approach
2. Techniques / Methods
3. Concepts
4. Organization
Questions for Rick’s long-term projects:
1. Will he find anything interesting?
2. Will the arc overcome entropy?
(These are my notes from Bill’s talk at the Intel HCPI 2 conference.)
Bill Moggridge – IDEO
I expected more from this presentation. I thought it would be about the IDEO design process, but it was mainly just a review of products IDEO had worked on.
Here are some of videos / products he showcased:
Steelcase Leap Chair
Eyemodule
Steelcase Huddleboard
Amtrak Acela
(These are my notes from Sarah’s talk at the Intel HCPI 2 conference.)
Sarah Susanka – The Not So Big House
The “away room” – a quiet, separated place with a visual connection (glass doors, for example) to where things are happening (the family room, for example).
A place of one’s own – Concept presented in “A Pattern Language” by Christopher Alexander
She described several new principles of design and expressed a need for new language for describing those principles.
(These are my notes from the Student Design Competition at the Intel HCPI 2 conference.)
Student Design CompetitionWork is on-line at Artmuseum.net.
Judges Results:
1. Stanford Product Design Program (USA) – Heart 2 Heart
2. NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program (USA) – Topo.Opticon
3. Tama Art University (Japan) – Mobilogue
Crowd Favorites:
1. NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program (USA) – Topo.Opticon
2. Stanford Product Design Program (USA) – Heart 2 Heart
3. Tama Art University (Japan) – Mobilogue
(These are my notes from Clotaire’s talk at the Intel HCPI 2 conference.)
Dr. Clotaire Rapaille – Archetype Discoveries Worldwide
His book: “7 Secrets of Marketing in a Multicultural World”
He made a lot of statements, but didn’t present enough, or in some cases any, data to support his claims. Some of them were:
1. Many people have data that answers the wrong questions
2. Reptillian products are those that people want, but don’t know why. They are products that are not targeted at a specific market segment.
3. The structure is more important than the content of the message.
4. Homebase – an important concept for Americans
He closed with this request: “Help me to become more human.”
(These are my notes from Scott’s talk at the Intel HCPI 2 conference.)
Scott Mainwaring – Intel Corp.
Types of collections:
1. Pack rats
2. Set collections (stamps, Franklin mint)
3. Obsessive collections – satisfies a craving (Pokémon, N*Sync)
4. Pragmatic collections – put away or discarded after use (music)
5. Sentimental collections – about reminiscence (kids trophies)
Interesting question: What happens when collections are no longer physical, when CD collections become mp3′s on a hard drive, for example?
Hi! I’m back from the conference and have had a day to consider some of the things I heard and saw. I had a really good time and met some super interesting people…Hi Valerie, Trevor, Scott & Debbie!
I’m going to start posting my notes on the speakers who presented. Some of them will be terse documents of the things the speakers said and others will be full of my own commentary. I’ll make individual posts for each speaker, so each will have its own separate set of comments.
(Note from Dec. 2001: The links in this post were no longer valid, so I removed them and italicized the words that used to be linked, for reference.)
While you wait, here are a few pictures from the trip:
