Guest Post: Adam Greenfield of Nokia on Urban Systems Design

My name is Adam Greenfield, and I currently work for Nokia in Helsinki, Finland, as head of design direction for service and user interface design. For the past ten years, I’ve worked in the field of user experience – which is to say, at the intersection between ordinary, everyday people, their perceptions, expectations and desires, and the information-technological artifacts that increasingly populate their lives.

At first, this meant discrete things like Web sites and mobile devices, but as early as 2001 I began to develop an interest in ubiquitous computing: what happens when information-processing power begins to evaporate from these discrete boxes we think of as “computers,” and instead takes... Read More

Unpresenting, with Heather Gold

By, the way, good-friend-of-Supernova Heather Gold will be holding a workshop on “Unpresenting” on November 30 December 4. Here are the details:

For the first time, comedian Heather Gold (npr, SXSWi veteran, Apple) is teaching her unique interactive performance approach to a limited number of participants in a day-long, hands-on workshop.

You’ll learn the emotional mechanics that let you create quick intimacy. Go from talking TO a large group of people to talking WITH them. You already know how to have a great conversation with one person. Learn how to transform your presentations into conversations.

Participants will structure and lead a conversation and receive critique and guidance from Heather.

Who... Read More