David Roedl

This week in Design Theory there was some interesting reading and discussion about the relationship between design and craft. Here are a couple open-ended questions that were brought to my mind:
1) In his book, Design Methods, John Chris Jones describes how in traditional craftsmanship, small incremental changes are made over long periods of time based […]

This was written for and originally posted on the Interaction Culture class blog
As Gillian Smith points out (in her forward to Designing Interactions), Interaction Design has drawn heavily on the ‘existing expressive languages’ of non-digital mediums. She breaks these traditional languages down into 4 ‘dimensions’: 1 - words and literature, 2 - painting, graphic design, […]

I recently came across this link for Resondr, which I think is a very creative and engaging interactive experience. While I’m not that interested in branding and marketing myself, I think the tangible immediacy of camera-based user control offers potential for a wide variety of delightful and expressive applications. What’s even more interesting to me is that this exact concept was explored by my team during our theme park design