Paper bound books: remade and recommendations; a real-time Instagram choose your own adventure
Author: alyfielding
Week notes: 18 October 2015
Week notes: 4 October 2015
Code for America summit; digital nations need new institutions; physical books as raw souvenirs.
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Week notes: 27 September 2015
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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