February 8, 2005
Links of the day
Orange Cone:
I've come across this blog multiple times now during my research into prototyping tools and other HCI topics. The article on Sketching and Protoyping is especially relevant. Webmaster Mike Kuniavsky is also the authors of the book "Observing the User Experience."
A comment on the site pointed me towards Hernando Barragan from Ivrea (the Italian interaction design school Bill Verplank is involved with). His Wiring project is "a programming environment and electronics i/o board for exploring the electronic arts, tangible media, teaching and learning computer programming and prototyping with electronics" and is based on the Processing language.
Looking for a history of prototyping, I found the following pages:
http://archive.cpsr.net/program/workplace/PD-readings.html
Castle Island's Worldwide Guide to Rapid Prototyping: http://home.att.net/~castleisland/home.htm