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Launching a weather revolution
I’m excited to announce the project that I’ve quit my job for: WeathAR. With WeathAR, all you have to do it point your camera at the sky and the on-board AI chip in your phone will analyze it and tell you what the conditions are. Together with a ground-breaking new freemium business model, seeing the…
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Why anyone can become a UX designer
đź‘€ This article originally appeared on Concordia University’s blog. Are you interested in becoming a user experience (UX) designer? Or are you thinking about pivoting your career towards this field? As someone who studied marketing and started working in UX without any formal training, I can tell you that this is one of the most…
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My Experience in Designing a Course in UX
đź‘€ This article originally appeared on Concordia University’s blog. This past summer, I worked closely with Concordia Continuing Education (CCE) as a subject matter expert to develop a user experience (UX) design program. As someone who is passionate about finding patterns, I immediately started looking for parallels between designing courses and designing products. To give…
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Introducing Projects by Charlie
I created this space on Medium because of the ease of access to publishing, and because writing is something of a rare pleasure in today’s hectic times. Feel free to browse through, comment on, and share any of the projects that struck you in any way, positive or negative. Find me online I’m on LinkedIn,…
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Charlie’s IDP Final Project Journey
This project journey keeps track of the thinking around the final project and offers my mentors, and various interested parties, updated. Scroll to the bottom of this entry to see the changelog. Friday September 9th, 2016, marked the beginning of our final projects at this year’s Interaction Design Program at CIID. This journey is an…
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Ascetic Aesthetic
As we welcome artificial intelligence into our homes, we will not only have to make it adapt to our lifestyle, their designs will make us change as well. Objects will become increasingly aware of us and companies will design proprietary ecosystems in the name of user benefit. These technologies are promising a better life and…
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Fabulous Total Security Kit
In the future, the authorities’ data collection will cover not just visual and audible media, but through advances in technology will allow them to collect biometric data on sight, smell and touch. To protect themselves, citizens will need ways to remain anonymous to avoid rampant identity theft and pre-crime. The FTS Kit contains a comprehensive…
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Doliio
In an announcement blog post on blog.doli.io, we unveiled this project as an actual product that will be coming soon back in May 2013. This is not another Chatbot Hello everyone. Today we are delighted to introduce Doliio, a new species of artificial intelligence capable of… As designers who work with technology, part of our…
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Negotiation is Messy
Negotiation is messy. We talk over each other at times, we shout, we wait in silence to come up with a counter offer and we try to get the most out of our opponent. When the brief asked us to create a musical machine, our team came up with the idea of creating a conversation,…
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Designing for Community at a Sports Park
Københavns Kommune partnered with CIID students, to try to understand what role Valby Idrætspark can play for the residents of Valby and greater Copenhagen, and how it can become a melting pot for sports and culture. Our goal was to discover opportunities for interactions, interventions and services that could transform the Valby Idraetspark buildings, facilities…
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News Globus
News Globus has a physical interface that piques the curiosity of people and asks them to explore the world not by news of a single place, but by the relationships between places. The shape of the globe is an interesting artifact from the past which was combined with modern technologies and online services. Instead of…
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Ultimatums That Will Never Be Fulfilled
It’s that moment, right after midnight — or right before… In fact it’s both at once. You came to marvel at the infinite beauty of the rising sun on a cool night, but silently wish it sleeps forever because its first peek over the horizon will remind you that time is crawling slowly towards the end of…