Major Studio 1: Final Presentation

This was my final presentation for work done in the Major Studio 1, taught by David Carroll, in my first semester of work towards my MFA in Design & Technology at Parsons The New School for Design.

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1. Final Presentation Justin Charles Major Studio 1 December 13, 2012
2. In my midterm presentation, I talked about a couple ideas I wanted to explore for my final project.
3. 1) Annotating Everything & The Personal Digital Library
4. Delicious
5. Delicious
6. Pinboard
7. YouTube
8. Vimeo
9. Gimme Bar
10. Lookwork
11. These are all great tools for bookmarking. I just wish I didn’t have to use so many to capture all the media I consume.
12. 2) Exploring the Memex
13. Vannevar Bush
14. “As We May Think”
15. Memex
16. “And his trails do not fade. Several years later, his talk with a friend turns to…. He has an example.… In fact he has a trail on it. A touch brings up the code book.… So he sets a reproducer in action, photographs the whole trail out, and passes it to his friend for insertion in his own memex, there to be linked into the more general trail.” Vannevar Bush, “As We May Think”
17. Trails = Bookmarks
18. Bringing it back to bookmarking tools, they are great for archiving & retrieval.
19. Bush’s trails, however, emphasize association.
20. “First he runs through an encyclopedia, finds an interesting but sketchy article, leaves it projected. Next, in a history, he finds another pertinent item, and ties the two together. Thus he goes, building a trail of many items. Occasionally he inserts a comment of his own, either linking it into the main trail or joining it by a side trail to a particular item.” Vannevar Bush, “As We May Think”
21. I want that!
22. What does a more associative tool look like?
23. Mind map
24. Bookmarking + Mind Mapping = Visual Associative Trails
32. Next Steps?
33. UX Research & Competitive Analysis
34. Implementation Prototyping
35. The ultimate goal is for connections to be able to be created manually by the user and/or automatically by the system.
36. Thank you! @justincharles charj949@newschool.edu Bookmarking + Mind Mapping = Visual Associative Trails