{"id":725,"date":"2010-07-14T00:00:52","date_gmt":"2010-07-13T23:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mayonissen.com\/blog\/?p=725"},"modified":"2010-07-14T00:00:52","modified_gmt":"2010-07-13T23:00:52","slug":"weeknotes-08-09-pause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mayonissen.com\/blog\/?p=725","title":{"rendered":"Thesis Weeknotes 08, 09 [Pause]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-732\" title=\"xerox_400\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mayonissen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/xerox_400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"80\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Weeks 8 and 9 were scheduled pauses: we had an industrial project planned, our last &#8220;class&#8221; &#8211; half of us worked with Nokia, the other half with Lego. We were also very lucky to have that project bookended by two open lectures &#8211; the first by IDEO co-founder and now director of the Cooper Hewitt in NY, Bill Moggridge, and the second by the wonderful metaphor-sketching Bill Verplank.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I can&#8217;t say much about the Nokia project &#8211; it&#8217;s currently under the wraps of an NDA. It felt like a distraction from our theses (and it was, obviously), but I think that in the end we did some really strong work, which hopefully we&#8217;ll be able to show properly in due course. Each of our projects was very different &#8211; in scope, in style, in approach &#8211; which was really nice to see come together in the final presentations. I was working with David, and we battled to do the smallest possible thing &#8211; and I think just about pulled it off, even if we made our lives difficult by choosing to work on something invisible and was focused on people&#8217;s subconscious!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-728\" title=\"moggridge_400\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mayonissen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/moggridge_400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-729\" title=\"verplank_400\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mayonissen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/verplank_400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But it was really humbling to have the two Bills come to speak: together they coined the term Interaction Design; Moggridge helped design the first laptop and founded what is now one of the world&#8217;s biggest and most respected design firms; Verplank worked on the first real GUI at Xerox and spoke casually about having discussed and argued over things that now seem completely normal (the desktop metaphor; files going in folders; what happens when you send something to the printer; etc ) -not to mention his amazing style of drawing while speaking, resulting in a wall-long roll of paper being covered in notes and sketches over the course of his lecture.<\/p>\n<p>So these couple of week were a complete pause, thesis-wise, but with a good excuse.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe some thoughts fermented in the back of my mind, without me noticing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weeks 8 and 9 were scheduled pauses: we had an industrial project planned, our last &#8220;class&#8221; &#8211; half of us worked with Nokia, the other half with Lego. We were also very lucky to have that project bookended by two open lectures &#8211; the first by IDEO co-founder and now director of the Cooper Hewitt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,6,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mayonissen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mayonissen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mayonissen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayonissen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayonissen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayonissen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mayonissen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayonissen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayonissen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}