Wine as an informational object
5433 is coming up fast, and relevant material is coming at me from all directions. For example, I was looking at a potential addition to the suggested reading list: Brenda Laurel’s terrific book Utopian Entrepreneur, which is about her experiences as CEO and founder of the Purple Moon software company, which led me to her website which led me to her book about design research, which led me to a complementary book on user observation suggested by a reviewer on Amazon, which led me to the author’s (Mike Kuniavsky’s) blog posting on wine on an informational object, which brought me back to Morville’s concept of ambient findability, which brought me back to the class.
I’m doing a little conceptual piece on relevance in my spare time, fortunately: otherwise all this would probably make me need a little glass of wine right about now.
