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Timo Arnall is a designer working with interactive products and media. Timo leads an international research project on mobile technology, collaborates on interaction design work and lectures in design, physical computing and design methodology. More...
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Recent links
- Social doing
"The verbiness of this question is it's genius. Where are you? provokes no poetry, what are you doing? is profound and playful." - Why the delay with NFC phones?
"East Asians will continue to show the way, not because of differences in consumer wants but because their governments and industry make sure the inter-industry haggling stops and projects that benefit the nation go ahead." - The future of money
"I designed devices for different spending behaviors, imagining new parasitical services sitting on top of bank accounts that create feedback mechanisms and a new relationship to our bank-account as an extension of ourselves." - Magnetic Movie
"Natural magnetic fields are revealed as chaotic, ever-changing geometries… Are we observing a series of scientific experiments, the universe in flux, or a documentary of a fictional world?" - Imageability and seams in fare systems
"but enabling perception of the basic ambit, structure, joints, seams, influences, and so on. It certainly enables that form of engagement known as adaptation or even hacking..." - Providence in the FAIL of a Sparrow
"I know it’s just a mockup, but we’re already in trouble if one of the UI alerts actually says “RFID detected.” I mean, you know I’m all in favor of seamful design, but that’s ridiculous." - The battle for the cloud
" The Cloud. The desktop computer isn't going away. But as bandwidth speeds increase, more and more computing can be done in the network of computers sitting in data centers - aka the "cloud."... The Edge. The cloud is nothing without devices..." - Mainstreaming mobile payments
"The mainstreaming of mobile payments - bus tickets in Akadake above, parking meters in London below." - Olinda (Schulze & Webb)
"Olinda is a prototype digital radio that has your social network built in, showing you the stations your friends are listening to. It’s customisable with modular hardware, and aims to provoke discussion on the future and design of radios for the home." - Spectrum atlas
Visualisation of the radio spectrum. - Nokia Remade
"In remade, recycled materials from metal cans, plastic bottles, and car tyres are used beautifully; whilst helping reduce landfill and preserving natural resources." - Conversation with matt jones
"For the next few years it’ll be all 16:9 touchscreens, I guess. And then… hopefully someone will Wii on their parade and breakthrough with something as different as the iPhone" - Tory Orzeck: sneaker genius
Includes the genius (for the time) Footscape ad. "The great thing about Nike is just that there are lots of great ideas behind the berm, but it is sometimes a question of the right timing or alchemy in the air that kicks something out." - What have we learnt about NFC recently?
"Customers like NFC (a lot), operators aren't sure how to cash in and banks aren't sure whether the operators are on their side or not. One thing they all agree on though is that handset availability shapes the critical path." - Dr Nova, leaving academia
"...their needs were less about building theories and laws about behavior but more situated account of how their technologies or environment were used, understood, appropriated."
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