Alex Wright interviewed Jake about Make History, the site Local Projects created for the National September 11 Memorial and Museum, a leader in the bottom-up museum collections movement.
“The key is to use constraints,” said Jake Barton, the lead designer for Make History. “Just giving visitors an open mike is the least kind thing you can do. We are asking for people’s experiences, but that doesn’t relieve us of the responsibility to share a narrative with the visitor.” Read full article here
Join seasoned Senior Interaction Designer Ian Curry of Local Projects this Wednesday as he discusses designing our recent “Make History” storytelling web initiative for the National September 11 Memorial Museum at Galapagos Art Space. The talk is entitled “The Storytellers” and is part of the Dot Dot Dot MFA Interaction Design Lecture Series. Here’s how they describe it:
“The Storytellers”
People are natural storytellers, and as interaction designers, it’s our job to navigate the relationship between people and the objects they use every day. Is there a story that is unfolding between people and their products? Are stories organic? How do they emerge? Do interfaces tell a story? Should we be designing with a narrative in mind? Join us to hear short lectures from four very different perspectives on the story and our role in it.
6:30-8:30pm, $6
Galapagos Art Space
16 Main Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Recently Jake presented at GOOD Design NYC, presented by GOOD at Nau, a showcase for ways design can serve New York. Local Projects took on the question of “How can we get more people to ride their bikes?” from Rick Bell and Sherida Paulsen of AIA NY. Local Projects proposed BIKE IT! a super-charged iPhone app that calculates time and money saved as well as calories burned plus locations of other cyclists through interactive bus shelters.
Watch Poptech’s video of the talk here:
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