Sjors Timmer – thoughts on design, technology and society

Month: August, 2009

Design for the difficult

This is my tiny wrap up of uxcamplondon talk that I held at the Ebay Headquarters down in Richmond. My talk had the inspiring title “designing for the difficult – because some things just aren’t simple”. Before I had my talk I had only a vague understanding of the concept. But I think I understand it a bit better now, so i decided to give you a rough outline of the concept.

Design of Flow

There are a few topics, that I want to write about the next times, I’ve already mentioned them in my previous post, but I’ll define them once more. Goal based design Flow design Emotional / experience design Play and fun as a way to achieve goals They are all part of the same process, and [...]

Social Networks, who are they

Lately I’ve spent some time in trying to map the ‘true essence’ of social networks, as always with true essence they refuse to be mapped. Here is my attempt though There are (should be) three mayor components in any social network Users – this might be members, visitors, creators, editors, (who knows even spambots), someone [...]