Frank Chimero, Oh God, It’s Full of Stars
These are my notes from Frank’s talk at dConstruct 2011:
Delightful design
The nature of the offering is the experience and the memory (experience and recollection).
Analog vs Digital
Digital products allow us to forget (ie. bills). Analog we find/digital we search. We own analog/it feels like we lease (pay for) digital.
Analog = OR / digital = AND
There’s an infinite with digital. Analog is a palpable stack like flipping through CD racks. The digital space doesn’t have an order (phantom file) …it’s a random collection of stuff. This random stuff has potential.
To keep a blog or collection of stuff is not a new idea… eg. Commonplace book
Architecture of Arrangement
Find stuff. Collect stuff. Arrange it. Arrangement requires a second pass… you have to step back and think about what you have.
Digital services are optimised for getting stuff in but not necessarily getting stuff out.
Revisting
Richard Saul Wurman – concept of LATCH (Location, Alphabetical, Time, Category, Hierarchy) Location.
Arrangement
How we move through time… Instapaper… Let’s you defer/re-surfacing content.
Old content should be able to resurface…
Biblion – New York public library
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