Wednesday

P3, W7, Rough, A Moment

In order to find a searchlight in my dilemma, I would like to describe a moment earlier to be stuck in between darkness and cooking. It must be a moment earlier. It might be a second before happening. It should be a part of a spot of an edge of a cliff.

P3, W7, Rough, Cooking without Seeing

An idea from cooking in the dark, I try to describe a cooking moment in terms of sensory experience without seeing/tasting.

> the smell of cooking (or kitchen):
spicy, sweet, hot, smoky, flowery, fresh, alcoholic/fermented, green, citrus, savory, buttery, earthy, sour, fruity, burnt, acrid, pungent, garlicy, clean, rotten


> the texture of cooking (or kitchen):
smooth, rough, creamy, chewy, crunchy, soft, fibrous, tender, tough, pasty, sticky, oily, slimy, fluffy, jelly, crisp, hard, liquid, rotten or rotted, wet, dry, flaky, cold, hot, frozen, stuffy, stifle, crumble, rub


> the sound of cooking (or kitchen):
chopping, grinding, dishes, smoke alarm, sizzling, scraping, stirring, cabinets, opening/closing, pots and pans clanking, gas stove makes a sound when you turn it on, timer, microwave, water running, water boiling, steam from kettle or through the lid of a pot (hiss), crackle, fizz, splatter, clang of spoon on pot, clamp of lid on pot, sounds of refrigerator or ice maker in freezer, whisk, cracking an egg, simmering sound of a stew or something thick (different from water boiling), pouring liquid ingredients

Questions:
How can I visualize a behavior of experience of cooking without seeing?
recall:
blur a boundary of things, fuzzy edge, pixelation, finger tip senses, sound, atmosphere, spatial depth, trials, flow of slow motion, breathe slowly, survival game (have a fun in desperate condition), increase complexity (humidity/heat/ingredients mixing)
forget:
worrying, time, people, logic, speed, distractions, perfection, success/failure, good/bad, knowledge, information

Friday

W6, Supporting Project, Style

Explore extreme writing style
1. Non-designer (general)
2. Designer (specific)
3. Poet (subjective)
4. Scientist (objective)

P2, W6, Crit, Interface of Taxonomy






Lesson:
I have whole lotta of lessons from the class criticism yesterday include ambiguity of nature of “interface.” What is mean by “interest,” “surprise,” ”good, bad or weird,” “notion of wrong in the world of nothing is right?”

Monday

W6, Grobal News, Current Media

기사입력 2009-02-10 11:37
1. Cellular Phone and Youth
official surveys of 6,000 youths by KTF, GSMA, MSRI in Korea, Japan, China, India, Mexico
- 87.7% of 12-years-old youths in K uses a mobile phone.
- Parents and child share a mobile phone in I.
- High peer pressure to have a mobile phone rises in M.
- Girls are more into getting a mobile phone than boys except C.
- Mobile phone symbolizes parents’ educational expectation.
- 60% of Parents in all countries concerns children in usage of mobile phone.
- 10% of Parents in K concerns children in usage of mobile phone because they consider it as a necessity in life.
- Distinction in interests is function and design in K, connection quality in C, battery life in I, design in M, not a manufacturer or a service provider in J.

기사입력 2009-02-10 11:18
2. “2090 Virus” in Windows
- symptom: fixed time, date, year as “10am/01/01/2090”
- cause: autorun.inf from USB disk driver
- effect: infinite active files such as 12343.exe, 842.exe eat a memory up in a computer. infinite log on and off crash a system in a computer and infinite “Ping” infect other computers in network.
- no vaccine developed

기사입력 2009-02-10 07:42
3. Nintendo
- 12 times smaller company profit than Toyota. 8 times greater employee profit than Toyota
- History: playing card and toy company since 1889, users like a complex game in 80’s but get tired of it in 90’s
- Strategies: market for female and family rather than male. theme for pet, brain work out, cooking, learning language. interactivity in family through entertainment and communication in different generations and cultures
- Value: software for people who need it.
- Future: open interactivity, tools in daily life, facilitator in family communication

기사입력 2009-02-10 15:05
4. Minimum-speed-guarantee
- Instead of unrealistic maximum-speed-internet connectivity service, internet service providers such as KT, SK Broadband, LG Powercom start to produce 30 Mbps to 50 Mbps in premium and 5Mbps in regular in the minimum speed guarantee service.
- User test a minimum speed via an inspection site.
- User can cancel the service if 3 of 5 are under the minimum speed without obligations.

Lesson:
Regardless reports from current News, I notice a growth of teenage market, a anxiety of invisible disease, a potential of small interaction, and an importance of reliability in contemporary and future media. How can design play a role in youth, insecure condition, small talk, worthy trust?

P2, W6, Rough, Taxonomy



a current process