Week 13: Monday Class Notes 4/13/15
Classnotes:
RECAP:
- Speed at which - Thinking about how to create new tech ---> new solutions / new ideas Able to do more ---> collect info - Search bar becoming more intelligent and more powerful - Nest - Try to design things that have more intelligence - Becoming the kind of designers that create-design things that’ll help people in general - Tesla: car can be updated from Internet, can be connected to the web, senses that detect proximity to things - Taking control of your car ---> stopping/braking/etc All Star system
Knappenberger
PAIN ---> abuse of power and convenience
open source issue ---> some guy killed himself trying to make things public that usually aren’t
Think about how to deal with situations where people might steal your things and abuse it
Copyright collision
Creative Commons
Not about a license of speech ---> It’s about giving people power to speak
Rejecting the business world
OpenLibrary.com ---> vast stream of knowledge available to the public
Public access should be free and available to the public domain
PublicResource.org ---> trying to make PACER documents free
FBI Secret Service, labeled modern terrorists
Government freaking out over a small thing and not focusing on more important and dangerous matters; overreacting
The Internet’s Own Boy
Government questions why he downloaded all these JSTOR documents when it’s free in the first place
never meant any harm or re-distributional criminal activity
Government forcing decisions onto people who are completely innocent
Guerilla Open Access Manifesto
JSTOR dropped the case and said they have nothing to do with the crimes/incarceration
MIT never did anything to stop this even though its purpose stands for hacking and experimenting
ended up helping government instead
SOPA Stop Online Piracy Act
allow the blockage of website and its funding without any notices or due process
Division between corporations and individuals and nerds
Popular companies blacked out their sites to turn the side
Federal prosecutors build/create cases rather than find evidence and truth
Hailey Tricycles
Wednesday field trip 5pm 34th and market in front of 7/11
Goals: use design thinking
come up with solutions for problems
Ex. Walking into the Apple store activates a shopping experience app for people checked into wifi ---> all of this happened automatically
Present a problem you perceived in the business, present a web/mobile/tech solution
Show a user flow of the problem and the solution
Wireframe of solution
make prototype if you have time
Possible areas of focus
Front office (sales, client management, marketing, accounting, supply)
Back Office (inventory, manufacturing, employee management, accounting, supply management)
Homework:
Finish the tutorial and do readings
Think of possibilities for Project 3