Sketching interaction

The question of how to sketch the behavior of interaction designs is one that I keep returning to, together with my students.

Sketching interaction design is a set of annotated slides from a talk I gave in Nov 2008 at TAIK in Helsinki.

Designing with moving images is a web compendium from 2007 on the various uses of video as interaction design sketches.

Sketching interaction design is a set of web lecture notes from 2004, now rather obsolete or at least superseded by the Helsinki talk (above).

Hacker cultures

Ever since I was a wannabe hacker in a computer science department in the mid-80s, I have had an interest in understanding and communicating the values and practices of hacker cultures. It seems that this niche interest is now becoming more in-demand with the mainstream adoption of concepts such as open source and creative commons.

Sju punkter om hackerkulturen is an invited paper in Swedish for a 2003 conference on youth cultures and the Internet.

Hackerkultur och kunskapssyn is my notes for an invited talk in Swedish at a 2001 conference.

Hacker culture(s) is a set of web lecture notes from all the way back in 2000.

Participatory media

The »new media«, whatever that means, are marked by participation. They are all about creation and sharing rather than individual interaction and consumption. As I see it, this is one of the key areas for interaction design in the near future.

Designing for collaborative crossmedia creation is a set of annotated slides from a keynote talk in Sep 2008 at the Dream conference in Odense.

Varför deltar folk i deltagande medier? is a set of annotated slides from a talk in Swedish that I gave in May 2008 at a trade seminar in Malmö.

Mashing the digital materials: A case study of Call On Me videos is a set of web lecture notes from 2007 on creative appropriation.

Our News and Sports is a 2007 video demonstrating a concept for tribe-based »future TV.«

Interactive visualization

The field of interactive visualization is growing in importance as the amounts of available data grow. I try to keep up a coherent stream of design and teaching in this area and here are some of the teaching materials coming out of that work.

A visualization catalogue is a collection of examples in information visualization that I find interesting. The catalogue takes the form of a deck of cards which makes it useful in a range of learning and design settings.

Pinpoint is an innovative visualization concept from 2008 aiming to help find people in large organizations, based on their competences and interests.

Data on your fingertips: Designing captivating interactive visualizations. Annotated slides from a 2007 talk at the trade conference Øredev. The talk is also archived on video.

Slidespace is a personal information management tool I made in 2005 to explore the use of the Sens-A-Patch spatial interaction technique.

Managing information overflow. Lecture notes from 1999 that now seem ancient and prescient at the same time, so to speak.