On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 5:10 AM, Will Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> <http://www.core77.com/hack2school/portigal.asp> > Put your observations on the Internet. Maybe no one will see them, but the > discipline of taking your observations out of your own head and publishing > them in a sharable form will force you into telling a story. As much as > design research is about observing others, there's something very personal > about how and what we see, and developing that voice will serve you well. > Collect stories and retell them in your own way, emphasizing the > perspective > you want others to take away." This topic reminds me a lot of an article on Russel Davies's site: How to be Interesting<http://russelldavies.typepad.com/planning/2006/11/how_to_be_inter.html>. There, he talks about how observing, creating, and sharing are all keys to becoming more interesting people. Does anyone have a 'suitcase' where the stick stuff they find? I know some > of us may use flickr, del.icio.us or other means of collecting > inspiration. > Moleskin? How do you record your observations and remember where you got > inspriration from? I know this is one possible use for @zakiwarfel's > research framework which can of course be used for user research/testing > but > can also be used for book writing and design research. Anyone have a formal > process/framework out there? > <http://www.ixda.org/help> > For myself, I use a combination of things to store ideas. Instead of bookmarking with delicious, I use ma.gnolia. As much as possible, I only bookmark higher level sites than specific individual articles. For those, I send to DEVONthink to catalog and categorize. Flickr I use for photo collections, Tumblr I use for single photos, videos, and snippets of overheard conversations, and I send text messages to Twitter to remember one or two-sentence ideas. For more in-depth brainstorming, I do more stream-of-consciousness capturing into a moleskine. It is certainly a lot of services, but because each one fills a very specific niche, I have no trouble keeping the discipline to use each one. Best, Robert ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
