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Opdracht 2 : Icoon  Bill Verplank

Bill Verplank Interaction design framework

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Interaction Design

Opdracht 2 : Icoon  Bill Verplank

Bill Verplank maakt in dit filmpje duidelijk wat interaction design is voor hem. Hoe werkt het en waarom werkt het op deze manier. Tevens vind ik dat hij een held is als het gaat om functioneel tekenen zoals dit filmpje ook illustreert.

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Enough With The Wobble, Time To Wabble

Tired of hearing the same old sounds? Does the dubstep ‘wobble’ kind of make you wanna vomit? Well then prepare yourself for the latest in wave warbling: the Wablet.

Createdigitalmusic.com reports a new iPad app by developer Robert Tubb allows ‘wabbling’ of sounds. What does that mean exactly? Well, it involves Scanned Synthesis which is basically

“wavetable synthesis – producing new sounds by playing back recorded wavetable content – but navigates those sounds by “scanning” through pitch and timbre independently at slow speeds. By doing so, it simulates slow vibrations in the real world, and it leans heavily on the way human physical control and hearing work.

The technique was developed by Bill Verplank (the legendary interaction designer – who helped coin the term), Rob Shaw, and synthesis giant Max Mathews (who invented – uh, the whole digital synthesis thing). It’s a marvel both of sound design and interaction, accordingly.” 

According to Tubb, the Wablet is

“the first implementation of Scanned Synthesis on a multi-touch screen. A 2D mesh of springs can be, uh, “wabbled” with the fingers, a path is scanned at audio frequencies and hence gestures are turned into sound. It won a prize at the DAFx conference this year.”

If you still can’t quite get your head around it, watching this trippy video should do the trick.

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What is Interaction Design? in 3 minutes by Bill Verplank

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http://www.billverplank.com/Lecture/

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I have a real problem with buttons that are not tangible.

Bill Verplank

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Elegant, classical explanation of "interaction design" by Bill Verplank.

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Bill Verplank

Bill Verplank has an amazing ability to draw at the same time as he talks. If you meet him and ask him a question about interaction design, you can sit at the nearest table or desk and be mesmerized by the fluency of his answer. His words are easy to understand, and as he talks he builds a beautiful diagram that reinforces what he is saying. You can take the drawing with you as a reminder and summary of his ideas about interaction design, which have evolved over many years. His PhD from MIT was in man-machine systems. At Xerox from 1978 to 1986 he participated in testing and refining the Xerox Star graphical user interface. From 1986 to 1992, he worked as a design consultant with the author to bring graphical user interfaces into the product design world. At Interval Research from 1992 to 2000 he directed Research & Design for Collaboration. He has helped to establish the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea and is a visiting scholar in haptics in the Music Department at Stanford University. He explains the context of the history and future of interaction design with paradigms that serve as patterns for the way people think about the subject. He describes the process of designing interactions with a concise diagram, and gives an example to illustrate it.

Here are a few links to Bill and the things he finds interesting...

Bill Verplank

An Interview with Bill Verplank Steve Baty talked with him about interaction design. December 15, 2010