The Post Modern RealityConnecting in a Deconstructed World

User testing!

The Walking Dead Season 2

Communication technologies are the key driver of social change.

Communication technologies have changed the way we:

Process information

Perceive time and space

Understand ourselves in relation to others

The  way  we  currently  expect  people  to  think  and  act  is  in  fact  out of sync with reality..  

TRIBAL ELECTRONICLITERATE

TRIBALCyclical

Time + space involved

Community focused

sound

http://www.hearnet.com/at_risk/risk_aboutloss.shtml

http://www.ourworldtravels.com/czech/orloj.html

http://www.discovermongolia.mn/tours/Cultural_tours_and_events/nomadic_life.htm

http://neveryetmelted.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Piraha.jpg

1300  BC

Alphabet

Dr. C. George Boeree (Shippensburg University)

Lascaux  Caves,  France,  15,000  years  ago Hieroglyphics,  Egypt,  3,000  BC Cuneiform,  30th  Century  BC

http://www.unc.edu/~nielsen/soci111/m2/soci111m2.htm

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

LITERATELinear

Time + space important

Independent

sight

http://www.nei.nih.gov/health/eyediagram/eyeimages3.asp

VISIONARY

POINT OF VIEW

SEEING IS BELIEVING

TIME PERSPECTIVEthe cognitive way that we in Western culture think about time

Once upon a time…

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jan/17/friends-books-rick-gekoski

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Metal_movable_type.jpg

The discovery of the alphabet will create forgetfulness in the learners’ souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust the external written characters and not remember of themselves. They will appear smart but will know nothing.

-Socrates

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ELECTRONICNon-linear

Asynchronous

Re-unified

http://www2.teknat.uu.se/forskning/uu/beskrivning.php?vetenskapsid=&forskomr=51&id=270&lang=en

nervoussystem

http://www.cheswick.com/ches/map/gallery/index.htmlhttp://www2.teknat.uu.se/forskning/uu/beskrivning.php?vetenskapsid=&forskomr=51&id=270&lang=en

18

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Steam

Boat

Autom

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Radio

TV Inte

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3G

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19

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WW

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Telegraph

Steam

Engine

20

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Semantic

Web

Systems Theory

Cybernetics

Semiotics

Pragmatism

Metaphysical Theory

- CHARLES SANDERS PEIRCE

Knowledge is social.

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Kids have become loose about time and place. If you have a phone, you can be late.

-Tomoko Kawamura, Smart Mobs

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73%

Mozy.com

of bosses have a relaxed attitude to time keeping because staffers are working flexible hours.

continuous partial attention

http://mashable.com/2012/06/14/digital-dads-are-plugging-in-getting-social-infographic/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Mashable+%28Mashable%29

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see you later

data classification

pattern recognition

By surpassing writing, we have regained our sensory WHOLENESS, not on a national or cultural plane but on a cosmic plane. We have evoked a super-civilized, sub-primitive man.

-Marshall McLuhan

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Life will be happier for the online individual because the people with whom one interacts most strongly will be selected more by commonality of interests and goals than by accidents of proximity.-JCR Licklider 1968

“Half of those young people polled say the

Internet alone helps them feel happier.

-MTV Study, August 2007

Velvet  RevoluIon1989

ZapaIstas1994

WTO  BaPle  in  SeaPle1999

UFPJ2004

Egypt2010

Occupy2011

age of digital revolutions

Our new environment compels commitment and participation. We have become irrevocably involved with, and responsible for, each other. -Marshall McLuhan

“http://www.firstpost.com

The  way  we  currently  expect  people  to  think  and  act  is  in  fact  out of sync with reality..  

How do we design for a non-linear, asynchronous, re-unified world?Q:

DESIGN

 PRINCIPLES  FOR  A  

POSTMODE

RN  W

ORLD

Asynchronous  Synergy

SensaIonal  Awareness

Inherent  Learning

DESIGN

 PRINCIPLES  FOR  A  

POSTMODE

RN  W

ORLD

Sensational Awareness

1. Don’t be afraid of human experiences.2. Allow for sensational data input—especially

emotional data.3. Integrate sensational data with quantitative

data for deeper context and connections.

DESIGN

 PRINCIPLES  FOR  A  

POSTMODE

RN  W

ORLD

Asynchronous Synergy

1. Assume a social world.2. Design for chronous and/or kairos, as

appropriate.3. Looks for deconstructed ways to sync.

DESIGN

 PRINCIPLES  FOR  A  

POSTMODE

RN  W

ORLD

Inherent Learning

1. Look for data everywhere—from people and from things.

2. Think about a world beyond classification.3. Enable unique realizations and learning

(both user and system) through pattern recognition.

DESIGN

 PRINCIPLES  FOR  A  

POSTMODE

RN  W

ORLD

Asynchronous  Synergy

SensaIonal  Awareness

Inherent  Learning

Ask:As always, focus on the user.

Seek deeper context.

Embrace today’s postmodern reality.

QUESTIONS THOUGHTS COMMENTS?:

THX ;)Laura Porto StockwellVP, Experience Strategy, POPhttp://www.popagency.com@lauraporto

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