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=Week 2= David talked a bit about award-winning Design and Systems work from previous years (Springboard, iPhone application). Taxonomy vs. Folksonomy steve museum: http://www.archimuse.com/research/steve.html

Folksonomy

 * allows for overlapping interests (i.e. Delicious, [|citeulike]) - patterns start to develop
 * social tagging and access to collection "What we say doesn't match what visitors see" ([|pdf])
 * tags for easier searching (what the person knows, how they experienced it) vs. metadata (very textbook)
 * opportunity for casual user

Wikitalk

 * sharing your research / analyses to the CCCA site analysis common page instead of burying it in your own little page; this way, everybody benefits.

Critique of CCCA site discussed

 * text heavy
 * too much information
 * site index on homepage doesn't make sense (normally indexes are placed at the back, not cover)
 * very specific (not friendly for casual users; set up for people who are assumed to already know stuff)
 * not fluid flow of presenting information
 * labeling is difficult(?)
 * content: too technical and dry; opportunity for adding more interesting information (i.e. influences, mentors, descendants) = connections across database vs. isolation
 * timeline has potential (comparisons)
 * looks very Web 1.0
 * orientation missing
 * contextual information often missing (eg. geopolitically, influences - art/design history)

Information Visualization

 * API (Application Programming Interface) from Flickr - opened it up to public so people can customize / develop widgets / mini applications that almost make them a platform
 * allows to take Flickr photos and arrange visual lengths based on parameters (i.e. popularity, tags)
 * 3D modeling through overlapping / shared photos
 * i.e. Amazon - everything related to Type (takes type to imitate formal qualities of the book?)
 * [|New York Times Data Information Lab]
 * [|infosthetics.com]

Plug for next year's Interactive Spaces(?) class
...He mentioned something about programmable blocks that has sensors, etc.

Benchmarks

 * MoMA's exhibit [|Eye on Europe] (antithesis of CCCA right now) - really not about the MoMA, whose logo is just shoved up in a corner; very visual and engaging
 * Fluxus movement (taking art out of the museum movement) e.g. Yoko Ono
 * MoMA's [|Georges Seurat]
 * [|SeedMagazine Universe in 2009]

We presented

Flowcharts / System Maps

 * [|jjg.net] for more on flowchart vocabulary
 * He talked about functions (think Requirements) and coming up with a list of verbs
 * Flowchart/ site map: overview of how the system would work (the flow)
 * Scenarios: one route/action like storyboard
 * Create PACT Analysis, perhaps, for your own focus