Leaving GDS; WXG conference; GovCamp Cymru; ‘type well used is invisible as type’.
Author: alyfielding
Week notes: 20 September 2015
User stories as comics; customer contact centres; physicists and engineers; what happens when we have the Earth’s entire biocode?
Week notes: 13 September 2015
I’m experimenting with publishing weekly notes on what I’m working on, what I’ve been reading, and what’s captured my interest.
Pair working: why it should be used more across digital projects
By Fiona Roberto and Alyson Fielding
Pair working is common in certain disciplines, such as development and increasingly in content teams, but it’s not as common in other areas of digital work.
Remaking the LightBook: Fairy Tales
This is the latest iteration of the LightBook, made as a present for a friend.
Moving of the book controls the tiny lights on the front cover. When the book is picked up, the blue lights on the cover fade up to full. When the book lies flat, the lights turn out.
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A handful of tiny projects
I’m working on a few tiny projects at the moment.
Stand Clear of Doors is a collection of signs and instructions.
Words on Pavements is a collection of messages found scribbled underfoot.
Both are ongoing projects.
Over summer 2014, I ran a small project in response to a pack of prompt cards created by Giles Turnbull. Write it on a Train is collection of 50 responses to 50 randomly-shuffled prompt cards, played out over 50 days.
GOTO Amsterdam 2014: Lego, music & the Internet of Things
For the past couple of days, I’ve been in the city of Amsterdam, for the GOTO Amsterdam Conference, at the beautiful Beurs van Berlage building.
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Agent in a Box: concept film
Here’s a concept film from the Black Tonic CATH project I’ve been working on with Katie and John. It’s got a working title of Agent in a Box, and was filmed by Chris Keenan.
The film brings together everything we’ve worked on so far on this project. We’ve also been able to test the first few minutes of the experience – Katie took the early work to a Pilot Sites event in May.
We’re now exploring what might happen next.
You can see the early stages of the project when we started thinking about digital adventures in theatre from autumn last year.
QCon London 2014 Conference: True Mobile & Beyond
In March, I’ll be on speaking in the True Mobile & Beyond track at QCon London 2014. It’s an exciting opportunity to take part, and I’m hugely looking forward to hearing and learning from the other speakers on the track: Halle Winkler; Mo Ramezanpoor; Jaimee Newberry; and Hannah Dee.
Black Tonic: collaboration, funding and opening the box
In the past couple of sessions for our CATH project, we’ve refined ideas further, talked lots and sketched and drawn. We’ve now come up with a core idea we’re working on for the remainder of the time on the project.
