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Read the column for student concepts and insight from faculty Chris Fahey for the NYC BigApps project. Find out more about this assignment in our new projects page created by Katie Koch.

Clint Beharry created NY Loves U based on Richard Layard‘s Big Seven factors of happiness.

The business cards have already been with students to Interaction10, and will be sure to make more cameos at conferences, events, and presentations to propel students forward. We want to extend our gratitude to the designer, and will be honored if we could end up as “just another statistic” in his next Annual Report for “kind deeds performed.”

Liz Danzico: Public speaking is thought of as one of the worst human fears, right up there with sickness, death, and fear of heights. What’s to be scared of?
Scott Berkun: The bar is very low for public speaking. It’s a tragedy here in 2010 that people still regularly fight to stay awake in meetings and conferences all over the world. Technology has not saved us from boring people. Or, perhaps more accurately, from interesting people who become boring when standing in front of a group.

Part of the problem is people worry about the wrong things. They fear they’ll be laughed at or they’ll say something embarrassing, but as I explain in the book those things rarely happen. The most common mistake is not preparing wisely. Most speakers bore their audiences to death by rambling and stumbling through their lazy thinking, problems easy to avoid if you frame the challenges correctly, which was the goal of the book. It’s not that hard to speak well if you think about the challenges in the right way.

Liz Danzico: When you watch other people give talks, what’s your biggest pet peeve about others’ public speaking baggage?
Scott Berkun: I’m extremely sensitive to having my time wasted. If I feel I’d be better served reading their blog, or their book, I’ll get up and leave. If I feel the speaker hasn’t thought hard about their topic, and hasn’t practiced their material at least once, I will get up and leave. People who “ummm” every sentence, use jargon (or invent their own), cowardly hide behind complexity, talk about themselves and their accomplishments endlessly, or who seem to have no idea why the audience is there, also piss me off. Anyone who earnestly shows they care and has clearly put the effort in to be useful keeps my ass in my seat. The surprise is nearly everyone can do this, but few do. Again, the bar is really quite low.

Read the full article at A List Apart

Fall faculty Khoi Vinh, Design Director of NYTimes.com, will play against summer faculty Nicholas Felton of the Feltron Annual Reports in tomorrow’s Coudal Partners’ Layer Tennis match. Additional commentary will be provided by Adobe blogger John Nack.

Tune in to this live design exhibition tomorrow at 3PM/EST for 10 volleys worth of frenetic visuals made using video, animation, sound, photos, type and lots more.

In their latest stage of research and exploration, the team met with Katherine Schulten, editor of the Times Learning Network for some advice. Katherine recommended the team to begin their study in a K-12 classroom, and start by observing the teachers and how they engage students. She shared her own “secrets” of engagement including “hands-on” activities, as well as finding ways to make classroom materials relevant for students to connect on an emotional level.

To follow this project from development to implementation, visit the Interaction Design Education project blog. Find out more about the inspiration behind the initiative, and why it’s important for the design industry at Derek Chan’s blog.

The new SVA program Impact! Design for Social Change launches with the help of Interaction Design student Colleen Miller, who designed its website. Co-founded by Steven Heller, Co-chair of MFA Design as Author and Mark Randall of Worldstudio, the program is a six-week summer intensive that will “introduce participants to a growing field of design for social advocacy.”

Impact! invites professionals, educators and students in the disciplines of graphic design, product design, information design, interactive design, fashion design, photography, and illustration to participate. Applications are being accepted now until April 31.

For more information, visit the Impact! website.

What was your favorite session at the conference?

My favorite session was Ben Fullerton’s talk on Designing for Solitude. At the session Marc Rettig asked “We’re blazing into overconnectedness that was created by us. How do we protect the people who we affect with our design decisions? - Gene Lu

I loved Greg Vassalo’s talk, 10 Things I Learned About Being a Design Consultant While Living in the Hospital For a Year. The relationship he created between our family lives and our work drove home the value of empathy in interaction design. - Katie Koch

Jon Kolko enthusiastically and clearly explaining the pillars of IxD as they relate to social change, which brought together many of the concepts we have learned at SVA so far. - Colleen Miller

My favorite session was Richard Banks with his talk about how memories will be passed down through the generations and how that media will change over the course of time. - Evinn Quinn

Co-chairs of the conference Bill DeRouchey and Jennifer Bove introduce Interaction 10.

What was the most interesting idea you learned about at the conference?

Consumerism isn’t dead, but it needs to be so we can move on to a path that is innovative, sustainable, and profitable. (Nathan Shedroff) - Stephanie Aaron

That we should be designing our products to reflect human behavior, not mimic it. (Chris Fahey) - Derek Chan

Design something meaningful. - Angela Huang

Interaction design manifests itself in ways beyond websites. - John Finley

Thinking about designing objects not to be quickly turned over, or even just sustainably replaced, but to attempt to design for longevity — to make electronics that get better with time, not just more out-of-date. - Jeff Kirsch

Your work will change culture, so do work that is meaningful” (Jon Kolko) - Beatriz Vizcaino

What was the best thing you did in Savannah?

Arriving exhausted after 14 hours of driving and then heading to a ghost tour pub crawl with a hilarious tour guide was the best welcome to Savannah I could have hoped for. - Clint Beharry

Meeting a lot of amazing people who I plan on begging internships from in the near future. - Russ Maschmeyer

I had an amazing meal at Mrs. Wilkes’ Dining Room. I think I’ve finally had authentic southern food! - Eric St. Onge

The historic Trustees Theater at SCAD

I started on the third and final day of Interaction 10 with a presentation from Jeff Blaise, who talked about designing interfaces for mobile devices. He was able to use some of his experiences as a designer at Sapient to give some helpful advice on the process of designing and developing mobile apps.

After that, I went to see Peter Morville discuss the Future of Search. Peter recently published a new book called Search Patterns, and he used examples from his book to demonstrate some of the behavioral and design patterns that have appeared in user interfaces for searching. He also talked about how he thinks that we’re going to see more multisensory forms of searching in the future, including better visualizations for search, audio search, and image (and video) searching. He ended his talk by describing his idea that search should to act as a microscope, a telescope, and a kaleidoscope.

Next, I went to see Rob Nero demonstrate his TRKBRD project. In the process of developing an idea for his thesis project at Malmo University, he used Arduino to develop a trackpad that sits on top of his laptop’s keyboard: a “trackboard.” The project was a good reminder of the Physical Computing course I took last semester, but it was also fascinating to see the social effects of what can happen when you publish your work in progress. I look forward to seeing his thesis work on stacked input devices.

After a lunch break, I went to see Gretchen Anderson of Lunar talk about the importance of facial features when designing products. She demonstrated how the first things you notice about an object can strongly communicate what you think the potential of that object can be. You can design these “facial features” into products to create a good first (and continuing) impression.

Finally, the last keynote speaker of the conference was Dan Hill. Dan writes the blog City of Sound and works as a designer at Arup in Sydney, Australia. He spent much of his talk sharing some of the “civic-scale” visualizations he’s designed, which hope to move some of the private data about infrastructure and city usage out into the public. He showed many examples, including graphics showing water usage, wi-fi in libraries, public transit systems, and responsive architecture, among many others. I found the talk very inspiring for thinking about ways to make invisible data visible, and ways to improve the design for public spaces.

And that was the end of the conference. After three days of big ideas, fried chicken, and sweet tea, I was on my way back to New York, and on my way back to homework. After the amazing experience this year, I definitely hope to attend Interaction 11 next year in Boulder, Colorado.

Thanks to the students for covering the conference! We’ll see you again in Boulder.

Today kicked off interaction 10 Day Two. There were even more things to do, and the weather cleared up. Today we started off with the opening keynote by Enzio Manzini, and then swiftly moved to Shelly Evenson. I was interested in the talk that she gave.  I was preempted, by my cybernetics teacher Paul Pangaro, to observe her talk. She spoke about systems and the conversation, which is a very interesting and relevant concept that is involved with our studies.

Tom Igoe again sparked thoughts of interaction design through the use of physical computing. Speaking on intellectual property and how product manufacturing is a combination of multiple lines of intellectual property and how it is becoming dispensable. He views this as a problem, suggesting that because things are privatized and copyrighted, there is more development and waste of things that accomplish similar goals. He views this as a primary reason that the landfills are progressively getting bigger.

I was also very interested in the student competition. The students were to apply with a concept that was to be judge upon entry. The second phase of competition was to attend a design charette, which is a design competition, focused on a specific topic. The topic for this challenge was social networking. The students had 8 hours to come up with a concept. Social networking can mean many things.

In the context of these projects it could be as physical as a concert or as literal as this conference were attending. The content was great and the presentations were awesome. Followed by the presentations was the final speaker for the evening Paola Antonelli, curator for the Museum of Modern Art, in our very own New York City spoke about design and interactive art can communicate with us in various ways and the roles that designers play in that space.  It was a good talk to end the evening. Now, on to the Microsoft-sponsored event!