All Those Adventures: DESIGN • UX • IO • HCD

/ˈalˌdō's - adˈven ch ərs/ : 1)Experience Designer 2)Explorer

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Samsung 360 Camera Ads

This is certainly the weirdest, and maybe the most exciting ad shoot that I’ve ever been a part of. R/GA asked me to shoot a Facebook based campaign using Samsung’s latest 360 camera. Initially, I didn’t grasp the appeal of the technology, but once I actually got shooting with it I learned pretty quickly how to maximize what it did best - and the results were magical.

We’re used to pointing our camera at an isolated view, picturing a person, object or environment, but with a 360 camera you essentially place the camera into the middle of a visually interesting space, so that all around, and above and below can be captured. When this is done well, the appeal is beyond novelty and becomes a game changer!

The creatives had three ideas approved for us to shoot, and thankfully, they were not only curious and visual, but each was distinctly different from each other. As the ads were made to be viewed on Facebook, I invite you to go there and properly experience them (they were posted May 9th, 2017): https://www.facebook.com/SamsungMobile/

So great to work with such a fantastic team on this job, many of the key players are pictured in test shot at the R/GA offices: Left to right: Dan White (senior art director), Ahmer Khan (photo producer), Simon Gibson (senior copywriter), Kristen Walsh (art producer), Aldo Padila (senior experience designer), Matt Wilkins (digital tech), Jared Lawton (prop stylist), and myself.

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Samsung 360 Camera Ads - REBLOG: @thechrisbuck

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A big red button that sends out mass text messages - Because why not? -Randomize text message -Send to multiple people -Includes recipients name in the SMS It uses the Particle Photo to trigger a webhook event speaks to Parse. It then runs an app in Parse. That Parse app tells Twilio to send the text messages. Then your news team assembles. Tutorial on Instructables .

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Sketchfab debut... LEAP // Future Hype :: Stilh Snow Diffuser  - This is what brands will look like during interplanetary exploration Link: https://skfb.ly/I68O 

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XD :: User testing time saver. There are countless ways of doing a single thing, but there is always a fastest more effective way. Finding these ‘ways’ has always been a task I subscribe to. Recently, a user testing exercise found its way to me and I had the opportunity to apply physical rapid prototyping to facilitate the process. The details can’t be shared, but I can tell you that shaving time from research means more time to design. 

More time = More intel = Better products.  // Photo: Particle Photon using webhooks and Parse to distribute notifications to group-sets during user-testing research sprints.

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MAKES - A leather wrist strap for a wearable we're working on. Velcro is a cool alternative, but leather... You know.

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IDEA - Solve conference call issues // A conference call yesterday with important clients was difficult to understand. There was lots of ambient noise and the participants vocal volumes varied a little too much. Misunderstandings waste time, cause mistakes, and cost money.

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Fresh ‘n’ Go // We participated in the IDEO + Acumen Human-Centered Design Workshop to determine ways to provide healthier food options to low-income areas in our town.

HCD PROCESS  :: Our team went through four steps in the human-centered design process: discover, ideate, prototype and evaluate. 

THE LARGER PROBLEM

During the discovery phase, we visited a local food desert and learned transportation wasn’t the only problem for the residents. A grocer we spoke to wants to provide fresh produce but said demand is low because his customers just aren’t accustomed to cooking it.

Synthesizing our findings brought us to a very simple solution.

A BUS STOP MARKET

Located at major bus stops, the pop-up market would sell simple, take-and-cook meals for about $5. The meals would feed a family of four, feature fresh, locally grown produce and require minimum cooking.

With: Kathryn Stern and Max Waldron

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Finalists!!! @ the VCU Venture Capital Competition //  Buying a tiny home is complicated.We created a brand and platform that simplifies the process, and pushes forward the idea of living small.

The concept facilitates Land, Legal, and Loans. A design component lets people begin designing their tiny home, get estimates on it, save it, share it, and build it.

Website: http://begindwelling.com

The team:  Kevin Albrecht, Strategist John Gaglio, Brand Manager Newman Granger, Strategist Mike Grasewicz, Brand Manager Aldo Padilla, Experience Designer Rob Stone, Art Director

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www.Dirtie.co How do you get people interested in composting? You get them interested.

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www.GifSpots.com A commentary on shrinking attention spans and the appropriation of cultural phenomenons. By yours truly... A communicator. Enjoy.

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Ze Clapper // Arduino + ATtiny84 

Finally made a clapper. You know... the on/off switch that is magically controlled by clapping.

It is based off of the schematics and code from here: http://imanoj-tech.blogspot.com/2013/02/arduino-clapper.html I modified the sketch so that it can be transferred into an ATtiny84 micro controller. 

Sketch: https://github.com/AldoPadilla/ArduinoClapper/blob/ZeClapper---ATtiny84/Clapper_ATtiny84

Thank you Manoj Kunthu

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Animation and design in the Pocket app //   I could go into great lengths about everything animations in mobile apps give users, from delight, to navigation clues, to cognitive priming. We’ll do that another day. Today, I just want to give a shout-out to Pocket. I like how Pocket carefully chooses animations throughout their app. They also take hardware affordances to add a layer of simple interaction that sparks delight. It did in me. I found myself playing with the phone as it made the icon parts move around. Having caught myself I decided to shoot the screen capture then and there. Normally these things go unnoticed, only serving invisible design honorably, but it undoubtedly leaves the user with a good feeling. This feeling is visceral design in action and this feeling generates recommendations and word of mouth. Hat tip. Like I was mentioning... Animation affects (just one facet of designing for mobile interaction) are vast and deep and so are the abundance of resources on the subject. Coincidentally, today I came across one resource I liked. The Google design guidelines that has a section on animation. Also check out Pasquale D'Silva's Designing with animation talk.

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Make YOUR own URL Shortener!  Why? So you can share anything with YOUR urls  So you can get the analytics of YOUR urls  So you can make YOUR url more memorable  So just because YOUR url is the best 

This URL shortener gives you all sorts of customization features and options. 

Stats

Bookmarklets

Plugins

App APIs (Shorten from your smartphone)

Complete control

It’s free, open source, and makes you feel awesome!

Download zip file and get more info here http://yourls.org If you’re making your URL shortener private you might want to redirect your chosen domain. Create an index.html file with the code below.

<meta http-equiv=”refresh” content=”0; url=http://aldopadilla.com/” />

addendum Analytics didn’t work, I had to make a .htaccess file (described here: http://aldo.cc/To6ME ) and upload to directory where all the files live. This solved the issue. I am using the android app URL Shortener on my Samsung. Works as a  default sharing option very well!

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Scrapper the web-scraper //  Scrapper - jumps web data and owns it   

This web-scrape JavaScript code lets you: -Pull your data from multiple pages on a site -Narrow the html area from which to pull data from -Extract the data into a txt file 

Running the script demo vid...

var fs = require('fs'); //node-fs var request = require ('request'), cheerio = require('cheerio'), chart = [];

weeks = { "10-May-14":41770, "10-May-14":41770 };

for (week in weeks) { var url = 'http://www.vgchartz.com/weekly/' + weeks[week];

request(url, (function(week) { return function(err, resp, body){ if(!err && resp.statusCode == 200){ $ = cheerio.load(body); $('table.chart tr', '#chart_body').each(function(){ var rank = $(this).text().trim().replace(/\s\s+/g, ';'); chart.push(week + ';' + rank);

fs.writeFile('output.txt', JSON.stringify(chart, null, 4), function(){

console.log(chart);

}); }); } }; })(week)); }

A mash-up of these  resources birthed this little scrapper:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJHpm0J688Y (Great simple explanation ) * http://scotch.io/tutorials/javascript/scraping-the-web-with-node-js  (How to extract the data in to a txt .file) * http://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/easy-web-scraping-with-nodejs/page/2  (Detailed write up and how to pull from multiple pages on a site)

It uses Node.js and the dependencies node-fs, request, and cheerio.

* http://nodejs.org * https://www.npmjs.org/package/node-fs * https://github.com/mikeal/request * https://matthewmueller.github.io/cheerio/ 

*Disclaimers -  Site structures change, so if it worked today it may not work tomorrow. This is for an educational research project. 

Cleaning up the output.txt file with excel and a macro...

Slightly more detailed vid...

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A rendition of the poem The Rose That Grew From Concrete by Tupac Shakur Stop motion experiment inspired by lucid dreams. http://vimeo.com/94119339

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Das Brandomizer // An advertising student's bookbag essential -

If you study advertising you know that you will inevitably comes across the day that you are asked to choose a brand to work on. Figuring out what to work on for your next project is hard. Das Brandomizer is here to offeren you sie das help.

We made Das Brandomizer for you. Get a bit of motivation while you let this tool do the brandomization work for you.

Enjoy.

Aldo and Ryan

Inspired by the WTFEngine

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TEDxRVA meets Brandcenter Creative Technologists // We built this cloud. An interactive cloud that draws in votes from the the audience with a special video booth graces the TEDxRVA event on Friday March 28th at the Virginia Repertory Theater in Richmond, VA. VCU Brandcenter Creative Technologists created this colorful cloud together with the Martin Agency. It was created using close to two hundred LED squares with four RGB diodes each, a couple of Heroic Robotics Pixel Pushers, Temboo API's, spreadsheets, a robust wireless network for remote monitoring, and Processing. Stay tuned... A video case study is in the works. It was an amazing build and experience. I'm proud to say I was part of the team. Thank you TEDxRVA