Amazon Shop window
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008A pretty amazing multimedia interface…has been developed by Amazon. Its called Amazon window shop. Try it out here
Archive for the ‘DES 506 Major Project’ Category
Vimeo maybe better than youtube
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008allows you to upload video’s in cinema widescreen format.
It may be better than youtube for high quality project work. Check it out.
Polya - solving problems - a good way of thinking about problems
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007Terry Love, Design Research Thinker has listed a simple and clear variation of George Polya’s method of thinking about problems - pitched more as life coaching:
What you know (e.g. day to day reality)
What you don’t know (e.g. knowledge held by others)
What you know you know (e.g. Science, good information, reflection)
What you don’t know you know (e.g. intuition, tacit knowledge)
What you know you don’t know (e.g. emerging issues, scenarios, knowledge from asking questions)
What you don’t know you don’t know (outside your paradigms and ways of thinking)
Check out Polya’s original How to Solve Problems here:
http://www.math.wichita.edu/history/men/polya.html
Not to be outdone, Donald Rumsfeld also had a go at something like this in his (in)famous known, known speech
“Reports that say that something hasn’t happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns — the ones we don’t know we don’t know.”
When Rumsfeld came out with this (about Iraq) it sounded so funny in a 1984 sort of way but actually, its word perfect and makes total sense. Try using it when thinking about Final Year Major Projects.
the degree show
Tuesday, June 5th, 2007Here are some snaps from the degree show
BSc and BDes students
Media Studies
Micheal Campbell, BSc Multimedia, Anthony Hutton and Clare Mulrone (Science shop)
Draft designs for invites to show
Thursday, April 26th, 2007
Design by Jay Lucas, Image by Pete Smith. Send comments to a.hutton at ulster dot ac dot ac
Mobile show
Thursday, April 26th, 2007Please upload your images to Dualta Wilsons Mobile show page.
Visitors to the show will be asked to vote for the best project…using their mobile. The winner will get a prize of £50
Upload your project details here: http://www.mobileshow.mobi/
You can also visit this project on your mobile by visiting http://www.mobileshow.mobi/ using your mobile web browser.
Web and mobile group projects
Wednesday, March 14th, 2007Dualta Wilson - Mobile show
View an exhibition on your mobile
Patrica O Donnell - Aileach Youth Club
www.infm.ac.uk/~mdf4odp/aileachyouth
Manage members and accounts online
Micheala Campbell - Feile
Dave McLaughlin - Vote for yourself
Your vote is in your hand
Ciaran McLernon - Sports hall booking system
www.infm.ulst.ac.uk/~mdf3mlc/webandmobile
Book Magee sports hall online
Conal O Hartgaile - Music in Coleraine
Home of music on the North Antrim Coast
Robert Fyffe - Globe
View the globe we live on
Chris Hetherington - Substance Licence database
Jason Harkin - McCauley Properties website
www.infm.ulst.ac.uk/~mdf3haj/jasonssite2
North West Property appointment booking system
David Kemmy
Letterkenny Cinema
www.infm.ulst.ac.uk/~mdf3ked/lkcinema.com
Book a ticket for Letterkenny Cinema
Chris Miskelly - Cross Community website
NI Political and Social education
Richard Hall
Piping and Drumming multimedia sharing website
Claire Harkin
Inishowen Oil
Order home heating oil online
Idea for web show
Monday, March 5th, 2007Maybe we could use this to make a web show
Lee Cadieux on radio
Friday, March 2nd, 2007School of Creative Arts Lecturer Lee Cadieux talks about his experience in the animation industry on Radio 4. (Paul Moore does the interview)
Click hear 
Scroll forward about 30 minutes on the piece which follows the 8:00am news.
Well worth a listen!
Thought for the day
Thursday, February 8th, 2007Provoking thoughts about the web and us. It reminds me of a conversation a long time ago with Julius Guzy about the “Conversation Computer”.
If you are in my web and mobile major project group…you really should view this video