Me wearing the prototype Abstract This is a jacket that will start conversations for you if you are too shy to do it yourself. Get to know more people, make friends, meet that special someone or simply break down your social walls! This is NOT a Google AD…but the plain function of the parafunctional concept we’ve presented this week. We’ve been working on the parafunctionality theme for about two weeks. I’m sad...

The term parafunctionality was coined by A. Dunne in his PhD Thesis. Since I like Art as a way of human expression with almost no boundaries, it’s always interesting and exciting to work on the line that separates interaction design and arts. Parafunctionality is a peculiar use quality that in my opinion is a step further the other ones I wrote about (pliability, fluency, social actability). I think that a design product that has not...

Project by: Pietro Desiato, Festim Zuta and Daniel KarlssonThis concept has been developed on the theme of fluency that means “the degree in which your able to move between media streams” (J. Lowgren). We’ve focused on the shopping activity because it is a very complex experience that involves a lot of media streams, first of all the city. In this project we’ve tried to be fluent and not only useful. That means that...

According to Jonas Löwgren, Fluency is “the degree in which your able to move between media streams”. I think it’s a pretty useful quality that all designers should consider in their process. The idea of moving between streams is valueable if you think of the contemporary lifestyles and of the everyday filtering we do to select and organise the huge amount of information we receive. “Media streams are around us...

A scenario for the music mailbox This project is about young musicians and band that would like to show their talent but cannot. It is hard to find social visibility until you are unknown. But if you are not visible you won’t be known. It is a vicious circle and it is not simple to break it. Music Mailbox originates from the idea of creating a channel between the musicians and their everyday context. It is pretty simple to design your...