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DesignNotes by Michael Surtees

Why I’m evolving Design Notes to Design Noted

Design Notes is now Design Noted

I’ve decided to stop publishing Design Notes as it currently is.
I’ve wanted to evolve what the blog was for a while now. I’ve been
testing out a couple ideas for the past couple of months. I tried
a new site for Link Drop Today, and recently started asking people
about a name change for Design Notes and my name. What I learned
from those exercises is that I don’t have enough time to publish
two sites and that Design Notes does have some brand equity.
Unfortunately when I started five years ago with that name, I was
the only using both design + notes. I can now think of a handful
of sites that use a similar combination. Believe it or not, the
blog name has evolved every couple years. When I originally
started five years ago it was dnotes and over time it changed to
DesignNotes and Design Notes. With a shift in focus I wanted
Design Notes to be about my own ideas and use Link Drop Today as a
venue to show and discuss other people’s stuff. With Link Drop
Today I was able to experiment with a couple other ways to push
content through posts, pages and rail items. What I learned as I
was working with that site is that it takes a lot of time to
publish two sites.

While that was all going on I also evolved my work environment. I
left Daylife and am now enjoying my time at Behavior. Changing my
pace of work has affected when and how I publish. Because of that
change I’ve been trying to figure out the best way for me to
continue writing and observing.

I’ve decided once again to evolve the name. Design Notes is now
Design Noted. It’s a subtle change in direction that reflects a
maturing of what I want to explore about design, experience and
observation. Design Noted has a new beta site that I will use as
my main outlet to publish now. Over time I will migrate posts from
Design Notes to Design Noted. I will also be implementing a blog
roll this week.

I’ve modified the template that I’m using for Design Noted quite a
bit. I’m aware of a couple elements that aren’t completely lined
up but if anything seems really funky on your browser, please let
me know. I’m also hoping that any RSS issues that have plagued my
old site will be fixed. So if RSS was your main way of visiting my
site, thank you for your patience.

In a couple weeks I’ll throw out a new post asking for feedback.
I’m using a new template and format so things will def. evolve in
this next quarter. I’m not really sure what to expect, but I like
the idea of moving forward in this direction.

Posted on Apr 26.10 to Design  View Comments

iPad as a Quick Testing Tool and Cool Sounding DJ Player

Sobhany Quote

While I am a designer I don’t moonlight as a DJ like a lot of
other designer’s do. With that said I found the above video about
The iPad DJ: @ranajune to be fascinating to watch. Sure the
technical talk made sense but what really got my attention was
when she described how a lot of expansive technology got
compressed to a format that is accessible to anyone that is
interested. While she was talking about DJ apps, there’s a
parallel to other tools that could be used for rapid testing of
products. This quote at 16:50 illustrates what she means… “Now
that you’re able to hold it in your hand as a user I can already
tell you what I’d like to see with these apps, so in that case I
feel like over the next four weeks there will be some real amazing
apps coming out. What I like about this whole concept is that
anybody who has a curiosity doesn’t have to be afraid of the
barriers to entry and they can just come in and just mess around
and learn about ideas about BPM, beat juggling, beat mashing. No
one is going out to buy a huge dj setup to just experiment but the
iPad really does bridge the gap there…” If you exchange the dj
tech words near the end with something a different product uses,
the results to make something better in quick order has a lot of
potential.

Posted on Apr 22.10 to Design  View Comments

Meaningful Data from Old Blue Chips

GE Fit to Perform

GE Fit to Perform

With a lot of attention being paid to those that are converting
data into something meaningful as New York Magazine points out in
Tweet Tweet Boom Boom (which has a couple cool shout outs to Alex
Rainert in the article), I had to wonder about the old blue chip
guys that always had data though maybe have never used it in a
meaningful social way.

Two companies that come to mind are GE and IBM. And by coincidence
of the last two days I’ve come across a couple good examples of
things that they’re doing. GE has an interactive visualization
called Fit to Perform. There’s a number of simple questions posed
where a person can move icons to correspond with how they respond.
The following diagram places their answer into a larger pool of
answers. You can also read a brief statement about what the
designer that worked on the project thought about it at FOUR
INFOGRAPHICAL MORSELS NO. 6.

The example from IBM is an ad, but an ad that I think is actually
quite helpful for anyone interested in understanding what data can
do. Why I’ve included it here is that I think that whether you
work in a large corporation or small start up, data can be turned
into something more than just a visualization.

Posted on Apr 20.10 to Diagrams  View Comments

Checking in with QR Code to See a Film

Fandango Mobile Ticket

Fandango Email

Over the weekend I saw The Secret in Their Eyes (highly recommend
it) at Angelika. Typically like most people that don’t want to be
dissapointed by standing in line I bought my ticket ahead of time.
But unlike other times that I’ve bought my ticket online, I had
the option of having the ticket sent to me via mobile. Having
never used the option before I figured why not try it, especially
with articles from NYT Web Coupons Know Lots About You, and They
Tell and Apply thinking about stuff like this Apple Introduces us
to a New iTunes “Concert Ticket +” System popping up these days.

Having never used a QR code as a ticket I wasn’t exactly sure what
to do. A friend of mine had to buy a ticket so I stood with her
and asked the guy behind the glass. At first he was slightly
confused as to what was on my iPhone screen. After a couple
seconds of thinking he basically said just go inside and they’ll
scan it. As I walked to the entrance I was kind of wondering if
this was actually going to work. Everyone in front of me was using
paper and I just had my iPhone. Once I got to the ticket person I
mentioned that I had the ticket on screen. She was cool with that
and pulled out a scanner and printed off a piece of paper so I
could get back in if I exited.

It was a pretty seamless process and I would use the mobile QR
code again if I had the option. But as a first time experience I
wasn’t really sure what to expect. There’s a couple small things
that any business that want’s to start going paperless should
consider. The designer in me thinks that a simple awareness sign
might do the trick. It could explain the procedure of what steps
are involved while also advertise to those unaware that such an
option is available. Those steps could also be displayed in the
email confirmation mentioning that a mobile ticket is available.
That would have helped alleviated my first time confusion. I’d
also clean up the typography with the actual QR code, I barely
scanned the info that could have been made readable with a couple
line breaks and bold text to highlight things.

Posted on Apr 19.10 to Design, Mobile, QR Code, UX  View Comments

My Small List of Foursquare Improvements on Foursquare Day

foursquare logo

Today being April 16th or 4/16 or four squared there’s a bit of
attention being played out with Foursquare people. People are
having parties among other community building things for
Foursquare Day. It’s been a crazy week for me so I might have to
miss most of it, but the idea is kind of fun. When was the last
time people that were on Facebook declared a Facebook day? But
with that said I have a small list of things that I wish they
would improve on. No doubt that they’ve already considered some of
the options of what I’m about to point out and don’t have to
bandwidth to fix the issues/features, but I think it’s still worth
mentioning.

Badge Management
A couple weeks ago I mentioned how I wish they had a park badge. I
walk through a lot of parks in NYC and thought it would be a good
idea to represent that. A week or two later I noticed a badge that
had a slide on it—it’s the Babysitter badge. I thought how cute,
there’s a badge for all those parents in Brooklyn. I had a good
laugh until I suddenly earned that badge after checking in at
Madison Square Park. I don’t have any kids so that badge feels
kind of creepy. I wish in the settings that I could either hide or
kill any badge that I’ve earned. I hate the fact that I have that
badge and there’s nothing I can do about it. And since I’m
gathering data why not let me know how many more check in’s I have
to do to gain other badges. The data is already there, it just
needs to be visualized.

Update To Do Lists with Places I want to visit
I follow quite a few interesting people that are going to cool
places. I wish I could just save the name and location of the
venue (typically a bar or restaurant in NYC). Right now all I can
do is add To Do’s which is something that I really don’t care or
value. What is valuable is having a directory or list of cool
places that I can view when I want to go somewhere new.

People that I know outside of my city aren’t relevant at the
moment
When a bunch of people that I know in NYC went to Austin for SXSW,
they feel off my radar. Currently for the iPhone version of
Foursquare it shows the people that have checked into my current
city, followed by older, followed by Friends in other cities. I
almost never scroll that far down. I should either star people
that I’m interested in to stay at the top of my list or make some
sort of distinction between hometown and where they’re currently
situated.

Dead Pages Everywhere
There’s really no motivation on the mobile site to click on a
person’s profile unless A. you want to see a bigger image of the
person or B. see if they’re on Twitter. At that point a person can
click on Twitter which will let them see what the person they’re
interested in is saying. That’s an okay experience except for the
fact that if a person wants to click on the Twitter about button
they have to jump to Safari. There’s a ton of opportunities to
make a better profile page. Sure people are concerned about
privacy—but if they’re linking outside to Twitter already they’re
sharing a lot of private info. I also don’t understand the value
of the homepage of Foursquare even after I’ve logged in. It should
be aggregating data that is interesting. I don’t really care about
who’s become a mayor of places in NYC. I want to see trending
data. I want to see trend for the hour, day, week and month. I
also think the profile page isn’t adding much value. At this point
I go there to view some of the minor data that has been recorded
showing how many times a day that I’m checking in etc.

Posted on Apr 16.10 to Design  View Comments

My Parsons Design IV Presentation is Up

Parsons Design IV Talk

Parson's Design IV Presentation: Unexpected Narratives and
Creating the Right ConditionsView more presentations from
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I’ve posted my presentation that I prepared for Parson’s Design IV
class. It’s quite similar to the talk that I did in Dallas for the
AIGA in February though I shuffled the order up for a more
appropriate context for the class. On Monday night James A. Reeves
asked if I’d like to come in to his Wednesday class to talk about
Design Notes and Agile Design. What is interesting today is that a
lot of people that are now in school have grown up through
Facebook and don’t even consider the potential of publishing
online and how that communication can help them.

The first section is about publishing, why I do it, the type of
content that I write about and the benefits of keeping an active
mind. The second section which was somewhat titled differently
from my previous talk was called Repeat, Repeat, Repeat. In that
space I talked about a couple projects that I continued day after
day for a lengthy period of time. By trying something day in and
day out it has allowed my to experiment, edit and take the
pressure of trying to be perfect. By taking a step back over time
it’s helped my to see patterns emerge that I wouldn’t have seen
and in turn allowed me to self analyze to improve. The last part
of the talk was a high level idea about Agile Design and using my
experience at the successful start up Daylife as my case study.

Through all my examples I hopped that they remembered to:
· Learn through experimentation
· Experiment with technology
· Repeat and edit

Afterwards we as a class talked about their projects that were
using a bodega as a starting point to gather data and visualize
information in a meaningful way. It was a fun conversation and I
appreciated the chance that James gave me to share some of what
I’ve been working at.

Posted on Apr 15.10 to Design, Event, Presentations from Michael
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My #PSFK NY Conference Notes

PSFK

A couple of days have passed since I attended the latest PSFK NY
conference to gather my thoughts. Overall I enjoyed myself and
didn’t look at my watch wondering how much longer any of the
speakers had to talk. I also didn’t think they should have done
anything differently in terms of how it was organized or the order
of speakers. A common trend of conferences now is to tweet it,
sometimes it works other times it annoys people. My rule of thumb
is to limit the number of tweets of any one speaker to two max
with the idea of keeping it to one per speaker. Below are the
sound bytes that stood out for me that I posted live on Twitter.

psfk01
I’ve heard Rob Walker talk about this project a couple times on
podcasts and through the interwebs. I was slightly concerned that
it wasn’t going to be interesting to hear in person—thankfully it
wasn’t an issue. It was interesting to hear what object was the
most desired in terms of money spent.

psfk02
I wasn’t aware of Steve Powers before his talk. I liked how he
talked about uncontested spaces and finding new things to do with
his art.

psfk03
Of all the talks, I though Ouigi Theodore’s was one of the most
personal of the stories told on stage. Talking about his
education, being a graphic artist and turning into a graphic
designer that created a successful brand for himself.

psfk04

psfk05
To be honest I was surprised when Nick Felton mentioned the
percentage of people that filled in his survey after receiving a
card from him. I thought it would have been much higher consider
how well known his reports are.

psfk06
Andy Spade & Anthony Sperduti put on some crazy energy talking
about their projects. When do these guys sleep?

psfk07
I’ve seen friend Tina Roth Eisenberg give a couple talks now, and
to her credit she’s kept it fresh each time. I was also amazed to
hear how she’s helped people continue their livelihood by
mentioning their designs to her audience.

psfk08
Over lunch PSFK screened the film Lemonade by Erik Proulx. It’s a
film that not only people in the creative industry should watch,
but those that want to explore what really interests they have
inside.

psfk09
Adam Wells dropped an interesting comment about the TSA mentioning
that they’re starting to work with designer to make the airport
screening process better—if we’ll ever experience a more humane
way to go through the screening process is something design should
be used for.

psfk10
Of all those that took the stage, Shantell Martin owned the stage.
But her talk wasn’t about what was going on outside, but getting
in touch with an inner dialogue about knowing when to say yes or
no.

psfk11
Colin Beavan shared some of the experiences of his family dealing
with his environmental experiment.

psfk12
Andrew Hoppin in a short period of time has done an amazing job
getting the New York Senate working within digital communications.
The number of initiatives is impressive.

psfk13
John Dimatos gave an impassioned speech about UNICEF and the
projects at ITP that are helping the organization.

psfk14
This was the second time listening to Zach Lieberman speak, the
first time being at Creative Mornings. His talk was one of my
favs. from last year.

psfk15
I’m a designer so I thought Grant McCracken talking about the
number of whites available today to be quite interesting.

psfk17
I really enjoyed hearing the future of the tv industry logic from
Avner Ronen. In practical terms he mentioned why things will fail
and how they could be improved.

psfknotes
Naveen Selvadurai kept things going posing some interesting
questions about what data can do to improve people interacting
with their cities.

psfk18
So my iPhone battery died for the talk that I got the most out of
from the day. Steven Grasse talked about how he turned his skills
as a creative into a very smart, fun and profitable venture for
himself. He talked about the farm he bought, the tools to make his
own alcohol, the print shop to make his own labels to his own
store to sell the fruits of his labors. While I’m probably not
going to be making and selling gin anytime soon, making a name for
yourself through passion and branding was something I’ll be
thinking about for a long time to come.

Posted on Apr 12.10 to Design  View Comments

Exit Through The Gift Shop – A Banksy Film

Chet & me on Facebook about the film

Exit Through the Gift Shop – Banksy Film

Traditional art is meant to last centuries – cast iron, oil on canvas. Street art has a short life span, needs documenting.

For those smart enough to have checked out the PSFK NY Conference
Friday, they were treated with an early screening of Exit Through
The Gift Shop – A Banksy Film. Here’s a couple quick notes about
what I saw and why fans of street art should view it. First off
it’s a film, not a documentary so all aspects of truth have to be
viewed with those expectations in mind. What wasn’t faked was
actually seeing stuff being made and placed on streets, walls and
with Shepard Fairey in a Kinkos shop. Other blue chip street
artists seen in the film include Space Invader and Mr Brainwash
among a couple other familiar faces.

For better or in my pov worse, most of the film takes place in LA.
While the film shows a lot of coverage of Banksy’s show in LA with
the pink elephant, there’s no mention of his Village Pet Store And
Charcoal Grill in NY nor his main stage show in Bristol. The film
focuses in a lot of areas so I wondered why the omissions? Car
culture is okay but street art makes more impact when seen via
feet then sitting down.

Now that I’ve seen Exit Through the Gift Shop, I visited 415 W.
13th Street to see Mr. Brainwash ICONS. There’s some great detail
of the show from Tokyohanna when she saw it last month. The show
is still up though I’m not sure how long it will be up. I’m
guessing a couple more weeks at least.

And since we’re talking about street art, have you seen anything
new lately? I haven’t for quite some time. I asked this question
to Beyond the Street The 100 Leading Figures in Urban Art editor
Patrick Nguyen (a book I’m really interested in reading once it
comes out) about the trend. His email response was this “Regarding
new street art, much of it in London was based in the East End,
especially the Shoreditch, Hoxton and Brick Lane areas. It’s still
going on, but it’s less dynamic than it used to be. This seems to
be due to a variety of reasons, including the economic downturn
and drop in art prices — which has meant there are fewer people
putting stuff up primarily for the purpose of advertising upcoming
shows and releases of artwork for sale. Buffing is also happening
more quickly now, but that’s been the case ever since London was
awarded the 2012 Olympics. One thing I can see becoming popular
here again is tagging — a more back-to-basics approach, and a
reaction to both the gentrification of the streets and the
crossover many street artists have made to the gallery scene.”

Just some things to consider as you see the film. And until you
see it in a theater there’s always the Banksy YouTube channel…

Posted on Apr 10.10 to Design, Street Art  View Comments

Bitmap & ASCII Art streaming through Twitter

http://twitter.com/#list/danielrehn/twitter-art

I have a love/hate relationship with Twitter lists. They help me
filter people that I follow but they don’t really mean much. I
can’t get any stat data from them so it’s not as useful as they
could be. And I don’t really follow that many lists because I
could essentially do the same plus it’s there’s effort click that
isn’t really worth the time. However with all that mentioned
there’s one list that I think you should check out if you’re into
bitmap or ascii art. @danielrehn has put together a list of those
that are making Twitter-art. There’s all sorts of experimental
digital stuff being streamed in via Twitter.

Posted on Apr 10.10 to Design, twitter  View Comments

Pixels by Patrick Jean

Music Version Above

Non Music Version

Found the above video Pixels by Patrick Jean via friend
@jollysonali. If you’re a fan of NYC, Space Invader and Tetris
you’ll like this…

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Posted on Apr 08.10 to Design  View Comments

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