Service Design
I just found a new wiki dedicated to Service Design at the aptly chosen domain of ServiceDesign.org. It’s been set up by the nice guys at live|work and will hopefully turn into a great repository for service design related information.
I’ve also been reading a compilation of articles with a service-design focus that was put together by the professors from our service design course. It’s making for some compelling reading—I want to talk about it, but I’m a little too tired right now to form complete thoughts.
In other news, today we received a brief to create a screen-based video game with physical inputs by this coming Wednesday. No small task, to be sure, but our experience with the physical computing class last fall and our recent introduction to instantSOUP (an IDII special project) should see us through.
We’re also starting to firm up thesis concepts around this time, beginning to develop our Mattel project concepts, and (in my case) continuing to look for summer internships. I’ve got my new portfolio up and running—let me know if you have any problems with it. I’m actually pretty happy I managed to get the PHP working, as the menuing system would have been a pain to maintain any other way.
As for an internship: I am particularly interested in service design and interaction design internships, but I am also interested in design firms that focus on the general themes of sustainability and experiences. I am interested in working with physical objects and experiences, and the systems within which they exist. I am also interested in the visualization of data and systems.
My thesis topics and concepts are a bit broad and vague at this point, but hopefully I can get some help from the professors with focusing/narrowing them. And the team I’m in for the Mattel project looks to be focusing on service-design concepts, which is cool.
That’s about it for now. My parents are visiting Italy for the week, and will be arriving in Milan in a couple of hours. I should probably catch some sleep before they arrive, so that I can show them all Ivrea has to offer once they arrive. This should take about 30 minutes, and then we’ll grab a coffee.
This was a long week: Tuesday felt like Friday, which is never a good sign.