Lounge Ruminator

Lounge Ruminator

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Lounge Ruminator episodes

  • 3. It’s the Principle of the Thing

    Design is all around us, whether in the physical products that we handle or the digital interfaces that we scroll, swipe and press. Martin ruminates on the importance of transparency and honesty in the design of interfaces, drawing on the work of Scolari and Mumford, along with Rams’s design principles.

    Notes
    • Second Law of the Interface: Interfaces are not transparent by Carlos. A Scolari
    • Rams by Gary Hustwit
    • Dieter Rams’s 10 Principles for Good Design
    • Technics and Civilization by Lewis Mumford on Wikipedia
    • Skeuomorph on Wikipedia
    • Apple’s leather Calendar app and retro Podcasts app (the latter of which was interestingly based on Dieter Rams’s design for the TG 60 player/recorder at Braun—digital, functionalist skeuomorphism!)
      • 12 min
    • 2. It’s Complicated

      As an avid Apple Watch user since its release in 2015, Martin discusses how the device has changed both his behaviour and the way that he thinks about time. It’s a powerful, personal device that’s supposed to make things easier, yet many wish for custom faces and even more complications… but at what cost? Looking at the Apple Watch through the lens of media ecology—a field that investigates how media, technology and communication affect human environments—it’s time to ruminate on how we can make our digital devices serve us.

      Notes
      • For those who haven’t used an Apple Watch, this page explains what it means to customise your watch face.
      • An example of the many Apple-centric articles that call for custom watch faces (and yet more complications as a consequence)
      • Martin’s Apple Watch and preferred minimalist ‘Simple’ watch face
      • Martin’s mechanical Mondaine watch
      • More information about media ecology

        • 13 min
      • 1. Indexed Five Ways!

        In this first episode of the Lounge Ruminator podcast, Martin is inspired by a recent blog post by John Siracusa to discuss the lost art of super-short, printed film reviews and how they can help us to improve our digital communication today.

        Notes

        • Top Gun by John Siracusa on Hypercritical
        • Video Movie Guide 1994 by Mick Martin and Marsha Porter

          • 9 min

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