Post on 27-Jan-2015
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Using time to your advantage
Sjors Timmer, UXCampBrighton 2013
Load time
Sprint planning
We’ve rapidly increased our grip on mili-seconds, but what about the decades?
1. Pace layers
2. Tools of uncertainty 3. Mental
time travel
Pace layers
Every form of civilisation is a wise equilibrium between firm substructure and roaring liberty !
- Eugen Rosenstock-Huessey !
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The Clock of the Long Now - Stewart Brand
Pace layering
in Stewart Brand - The Clock of the Long Now -
Peter Morville - The Speed of Information Architecture
Information architecture
Jesse James Garett - The elements of user experience
User Experience
Jesse James Garett - The elements of user experience
Time
User Experience
in Stewart Brand - The Clock of the Long Now -
Pace layering
Tools of uncertainty
The further we look into the future
Present
Time
Future
Degree of uncertainty
The higher the degree of uncertainty
Present
Time
Future
Cone of uncertainty
Present Time
Degree of uncertainty
Future
We build “designer environments” in which human reason is able to far outstrip the computational ambit of the unaugmented biological brain. !
- Andy Clark in Being There
After 4000 years of hard work we wound up with a neat system of seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months and years to break the infinity of time into manageable chunks.
And a matching set of artefacts, like clocks, calendars and timelines to make the system tangible
A set of tools and design patterns
Present
Degree of uncertainty
Future
PlannerCalendar
Timeline
Scenarios
Life planner
We’d all be better off if the Earth would round the sun in five years instead of one
Orbit
Orbit on iOS7 paper edition
Mental time travel
Mental time travel comprises the mental reconstruction of personal events from the past and the mental construction of possible events in the future. !
- Thomas Suddendorf and Michael Corballis in Mental time travel and the evolution of the human mind, Genetic, Social, and General Psychology Monographs, 1997
Procedural Semantic Episodic
Edinburgh is the capital of Scotland
Scenarios of futures (and pasts)
And now a bit of a leap
Archiving the models allowed architects to keep the traces of creativity […]; de-archiving them meant they could rediscover those traces of design invention that time had left intact. !
- Albena Yaneva
Made by the Office for Metropolitan Architecture: an ethnography of design, 2009, page 65
http://www.archined.nl/en/reviews/2010/engels/blue-foam/
The biggest part of our work [...] disappears automatically. [...] But you can't look at these designs as waste. They're ideas; they will survive in books. !
- Rem Koolhaas
We're Building Assembly-Line Cities and Buildings, Der Spiegel 2011
http://www.dezeen.com/2010/05/05/oma-book-machine-at-the-architectural-association/
OMA book machine
What are our archives?
Archive Now Fiction
The now is a forwards moving point between archive and fiction
Design fiction
Design fiction
http://www.urbanixdsummerschool.eu/resources/projects/fabrika-split/
Design fiction
Summary
Pace layering
in Stewart Brand - The Clock of the Long Now -
Tools of uncertainty
Present
Degree of uncertainty
Future
PlannerCalendar
Timeline
Scenarios
Archive Now Fiction
Mental time travel
Thank you
Sjors Timmer, UXCampBrighton 2013