Daniel’s Newsletter #001
This is the Medium version of my bi-weekly newsletter with interesting things I’ve spotted in design, culture, tech, innovation and play.
Storyboarding in VR
While the world is still figuring how to create meaningful experiences for VR, Artefact Group has taken a step in the right direction with their VR storyboarding tool.
Tools like this will accelerate quality content creation.
Innovating Like a Startup? No.
Why corporate innovation needs to be insight driven and human-centered. Blindly testing hypotheses is not efficient. This article might be an early indicator of an upcoming shift in corporate innovation mindsets.
Hello, Shakespeare — meet AI!
CIID student Grishma Rao has created Ghostkit: A platform that helps bridge the emotional gap between humans and artificial intelligence-based systems. In essence, this allows you to assign custom personalities to Siri, or other conversational interfaces.
LEGO Life
LEGO life just launched — a social platform for kids. One interesting thing to note is the absence of text-based comments, which has been entirely replaced by LEGO-emojis: It’s going to be interesting to follow how kids will adopt and use this as a way of communicating.
Maker Movement Insights
Two-year-old article about the Maker Movement, but a pleasure to re-read: And almost weekly I’m experiencing how museums, municipalities, NGO’s, etc. are putting participatory experiences and maker-like initiatives on the agenda. The Maker Movement is untapped potential and highly relevant.
Inspiring Design-Research
Even if you’re not the slightest bit interested in the growing elderly population in Japan and China, this is a worthwhile read from a design-research perspective (choose the report on the right). Lot’s of methodical insight, process descriptions, and well-communicated findings.
Truth is Now a Relative Construct
Five vectors to help you navigate this new world order:
“Truth has, more than ever, become a relative construct and so we crave simple stories that help us make sense of the world and it no longer matters if they are wrong or right.”
Spoiler: Most of them are deeply tied to design thinking principles.
Random Off-topic Recommendation
I’m really enjoying the “How I build this” podcast these days. Maybe you would too. Start with the episode with Yvon Chouinard founder of Patagonia.
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