Design Journal

A bit more about Metaverse! Also… it’s free! 

A really fun and easy way to make some simple AR! This could be a great tool for classrooms and is serving as a prototyping tool for me for a final project! 

https://blog.marvelapp.com/sketching-will-make-smarter-designer/?utm_campaign=Newsletter&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=80237580&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_q6LXJL86YTVfJ_yxBM-RRBqMpp_kl7A-gQjiYZygHsJgDZfCt1ikBub3ays4m3-OO5DEv1DENey5yYDt5D1gds7s76w&_hsmi=80325811

I think this is a great way to get people to engage with endangered species and hopefully motivate them to care more about conservation… and then I realized that it might be the only way we will be able to engage with this animals pretty soon. 

An interesting look at the how AR can be used in education… and an introduction to the iGeneration. 

I’m really into the idea of seeing something you colored come to life in AR— or more broadly, the idea of the image coming off page to interact with the audience really appeals to me. I’m trying to learn a little bit about this technology and this video offers some insights. I also think it’s kind of cool that its coming from Disney Research! 

A resource for later! 

Time to learn about some AR stuff! 

I’m interested in the way self-care has merged with emerging media— there are so many apps offering digital solutions for services in the self-care/mental health field, and right now many of them are offering big discounts for Black Friday/Cyber Monday. I could see how Talkspace could be really useful for someone living in an area where there aren’t a lot of licensed therapists and the matching tool could be really useful. This site says that users found it 80% as effective as regular face-to-face therapy. 

This was so interesting to watch after reading about it in Creativity, Inc. It’s easy to see it and not appreciate what an accomplishment it was back in 1984, so I’m really glad that I have the contextual background now to understanding how ground breaking it really was. 

I’ve seen this pop up on Facebook a number of times and I’m really confused about the target audience. It’s $500 for this tablet and it’s basically just an e-reader with a note taking app. The ink-based technology intrigues me— I’d love to try it out so I can better judge the writing experience— but I can’t imagine that it’s actually better than writing on my iPad Pro with a matte screen protector and an Apple Pencil. I’m a very paper oriented person— I love the smell of old books and have more notebooks than a normal person should have, so in some sense I think I’d be part of the target audience group, but I honestly can’t imagine wanting a single function tablet like this when you can buy an iPad for less ($329). There are tons of fantastic note-taking apps available: GoodNotes, Notability, ZoomNotes (my favorite), Apple Notes and others. I guess with an iPad you risk getting distracted by social media, email, and pop-up notifications, but I’m pretty sure that if someone is prone to those types of distractions they will still find ways to check their phone or hop on their laptop while jotting down notes in ReMarkable. So for me this product feels like a big miss— subpart technology at too high a price point. I’d be curious to hear what others think! 

I’ve been trying to figure out if my BookShare app would actually work with Kindle and came across Libby last week. Libby lets you borrow audiobooks and e-books from your library and read them on any device. If I decide to pursue BookShare as a capstone project, Libby could end up providing an alternate solution to trying to create something for Kindle. 

Here’s a link to the XD file: https://xd.adobe.com/view/320c2951-9243-4c3d-7e00-8672b33e9321-443d/

This is the same couple who also made the pop-up book that I posted— so beautiful!

This is really one of the coolest things ever— merging AR and books makes me beyond excited, but this is BEAUTIFUL as well. Seriously, watch the video— you’ll forget that its in French in about two seconds.