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