Living inside my notebookI love postcards. Email and flickr are nice, but paper can be laid out across a much larger display area, for so much less. @blogme - little ideas for blog posts get stuck here, sorted, expanded, written, and posted. "real designers deliver." "If something is hard to use, I just don't use it as much." - Steve Krug, "Don't Make Me Think" Gift cards. Notes - Interface (reading notes from Raskin, Tognazini, usability articles, whatever) Notes - Psych (Reading notes from Norman, other cogsci and neurology stuff) Doodles - one of the neat things about keeping a house full of index cards is that people doodle on them, and I end up with the doodles, which I *love*. Old lists - I've filled and replaced this envelope twice since taking this photograph; I've started saving old lists. Just because something about the texture of the scribbled-out writing looks cool. Digital Ground cards. Some of the side notes in the book Digital Ground are more like koans than illustrations. I've copied some of them onto cards, and go through them regularly whenever I feel like I know what I'm talking about, because it reminds me that I don't. My friend Aaron sent me this card from Rome, years ago. Still have it. More than I can say for the email from that year. index-card sized business cards are more useful when other people carry Hipster PDA's. Less so in the world of sane people. This semacode worked fine on my monitor. When printed, it's too small for the cameraphone to resolve.  This is one of the walls of my studio. See the notes for annotation.
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You may have noticed that all the coin envelopes are binder-clipped in the same corner. That makes them hang at a specific angle off a push-pin, which allows you to cover a wall with them with some nice density, without needing a ruler. This is just one of the bulletin boards covering the walls; I keep my reading notes, scribbles, and other oddments here. Alastair Cockburn calls displays like this "information radiators," and the connotations that conjures up are exactly right. Another wall holds my "Someday/Maybe" list, split into categories like "movies to watch, books to read, places to visit." And another holds my "agenda" envelopes. It's more attractive than the pictures really show, and offers a wonderful information density and overview that I've yet to match. Comments
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ffangs says:
this is so cool, i love looking at stuff like this :)
Posted 47 months ago. ( permalink )