Module Suggestions 211106

Working with People
(Emphasis on Creative Differentiation)
Understand that Different People Know Different Things

Market Research
Qualitative and Quantitative
Monitoring and Replication
Verification of Concepts

Introducing Yourself to the Unknown
Niche Markets
Creative Differentiation
User Research
Inspirational People
Thinking about People
Working about People

Working with People
Case Studies
Cultural Probes
Hanging Out

Interaction Research Studio Work
Plane Tracker
Local Barometer
Drift Table
History Table Cloth

Project
Produce a piece of Documentary Inspirational User Research

Product as Service
(Emphasis on Software)
Understanding Products as part of an Ecology of Service

History of the Internet
The Internet as Technical Infrastructure
The World Wide Web
The Interface of Includes
Some Modern Exemplifiers

Service Design
Analysing Systems
Out/In/Home Sourcing
Service Infrastructure
Service Providers

Describing Systems
Data Flow Diagrams
Prototyping Systems
Machine Poetry

Workshop
Machine Poetry Processing (Simplified Java) http://processing.org/

Project
Design and Prototype an Online Service

Product as Supply Chain Interface
(Emphasis on Hardware)
Understanding Products as part of a Brand controlled Production and Distribution Chain

History of Production
Craft and Commission
Mechanised Production and the Concept of Mass Markets
Cellular Design and Manufacturing Techniques
Some Modern Exemplifiers

History of Distribution
Trade
Supply Chains, Material Lists and Product Ranges
Some Modern Exemplifiers

Orchestrating Supply Chains
Common Interest Groups
Faking it with UPS and FedEx

Supply Chain Interfaces
The Internet is (in) Everything
Supply Chain Success is Invisible
Some Modern Exemplifiers

Prototyping Systems
Keyboard Hacking or Arduino http://www.arduino.cc/

Project
Design and Prototype a Supply Chain Interface Product

Licensing the Future
(Emphasis on Copyleft)
Basic Licensing Concepts, Trade Secrets, Trademarks and Ownership

The History of Copyright
Exercising Automatic Copyright
Copyright in Photography
Music and Motion Pictures
The End of Innovation

The History of Patents
Public Interest Open Letters for Temporary Monopolies
The Patent Concept of Ideas
Patent Exemplifiers

The Patent Debate
The Extension of Patents
The Public Domain

Copyleft
The Copyleft Concept
Creative Commons
Software Success
Participatory Motivation
Academic Publishing and Stock Photography
Global Local Ideology

Project
Design, Prototype and Publish an Extension to the Public Domain