If there is one topic that marks our time, I guess it is quite unarguably the human impact on climate change. Whenever I meet with friends for dinner, rare are the evenings where we will not at some point discuss the ecological impact of the products we’re eating. Between choosing local, organic, vegetarian or fair trade products, it’s hard to understand the impact of our daily choices. So what if there was an app that would tell us exactly that: the ecological impact of individual products?
This is the fantasy that I will elaborate in this case study. …
A case study on reinventing a micro event site
The Salon du Livre et de la Presse Jeunese is an annual event that takes place just next to Paris. It’s the event in the industry in France and very well known amongst the in-crowd. It hosts a very large audience, reaching from high brow editors, authors to teachers and librarians — and ultimately: children.
The website AS IS: an insider’s affair
Having visited the event not too long ago myself, I was struck by the difficulty of the website about the event, of which the screens look like the following:
As you can see, they are full of jargon and I had to use the search option to find all the basic information. Moreoever, although pictures are shown of books and authors, it does not convey very clearly what I believe should be its core message: the imaginative playfullness that children’s book convey. This is a shame, as it can have such a strong appeal and possibly reach much wider audiences. …
In a stage where we all follow hundreds if not thousands accounts, maybe it is time to create some organisation in the chaos of following?
It’s been a while since Instagram has been growing. Does this mean it’s heading into the same direction as Facebook, meaning: many people out there but fainting creativity and interaction? It sometimes already feels like that, as within the 700 or so people that I’m following it always seems to be the 20 or so same ones that seem to dominate my feed. I sometimes vaguely remember content that I would like to see, but when it comes down to remembering the name of the author/publisher, I often have to give up.
So as I see it, Instagram is already craving for a new feature to revive it’s original core activity: sharing pictures and finding inspiration. Because really, has anything new happened around that since they started their stories? …
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