Workshop: “Intro to Designing and Prototyping with NFC and RFID”
This workshop is for:
Graduate students in any design discipline who are familiar with concepting techniques such as brainstorming and prototyping. Workshop participants should also be comfortable with digital design tools such as Photoshop, and Illustrator. Experience with Flash timeline and AS3 is preferred but not required.
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTORS
In the recent past, interaction design was mostly confined to screens, but the proliferation of digital technology has created a landscape in which physical and virtual forms are constantly interchanged with one another. This new combination of factors has empowered designers to craft product behaviors that have not previously existed. Carla Diana and Jeff Hoefs are two such designers. In their practice, they face the challenges of navigating an ever-evolving spectrum of new product behaviors that combine the physical objects with dynamic information. In this workshop, they will identify the opportunities and challenges involved in crafting hybrid physical/digital projects and discuss case studies for hybrid approaches that led to deeper solutions than those attained through traditional processes alone.
Carla Diana
Jeff Hoefs
WORKSHOP AGENDA
Hands-on intro to RFID
10-10:30AM Demonstration
10:30-11AM Participant setup
Break
11:15AM-12:45PM Working with Flash & Phidgets
Group assignments
1-2PM Lunch
Concept Creation
2-3PM Brainstorm/bodystorming exercise
Physical Prototyping
3-4PM Mockup creation
4-5PM Iterations and refinement
5-6PM Presentation and critique
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Saturday, January 14
10AM - 6PM
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Location
MFA Interaction Design Department
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136 West 21st Street
Between 6th and 7th Avenues
3rd Floor
New York, New York 10011
