Recently my blog has been very quite, mostly because I can’t blog about the TRIL centre and secondly because I have been very busy doing the below. This post will show the growth of the IxDA community as we prepare for our one year anniversary.

I moved to Ireland one year ago to start my first graduate job as an interaction designer. I had just graduated a product design degree at Middlesex university, and was luckily to get the a job at the TRIL centre. My degree had prepared me well, but as I was the only interaction designer I wanted to get in touch with the IxDA community.

My first port of call to getting in touch was to contact the IxDA forums, I happened to stumble upon Seamus Byrne posting. I got in touch, and within a week we had our first meeting at The South William. One of the many great pub venues in Dublin.

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This is a second update.. I’m aware that things around here have been pretty quite for a while.  I have a bunch of content that i’m looking to update on the site.

I’m planning to make the blog more focused on Interaction Design.  I’m currently doing a lot of work that covers a broad range of interaction design issues.

Most of my current work has a certain amount of IP. Although at TRIL I’m currently working on..

• Designing a design process for the TRIL environment.  TRIL is unique because product creation is closely linked to academic research. You may see this written into a paper soon.
• Developing an interactive product using Flash (Actionscript 3) and External interface to interact with a C app.
• Doing data logging with the products I create.  I can’t say too much, but its getting some interesting feedback on product usage.
• Organizing and working with ethnographers to help develop the TRIL future.
• Working with Lawyers to help find lucrative iP in products that we create.

So I plan in the coming months, I plan to

• Update the existing content.
• Back post some news that has happened.
• Focus primarily on IP-Free case studies from work.
• Post small AS3 code snippets,
• … and generally give back to the interaction design community.

I would also like to thank all the visitors to the site.. I’m busy to update and fix all of my design conent.

Phidget Starter Kit #1

PhidgetInterfaceKit Package #1 – A PhidgetInterfaceKit 8/8/8 with an assortment of sensors:

I found this today from www.active-robots.com This will be the ultimate kit to start anyone with any interaction design project, I hope to get my hands on one and will be doing some writeups soon.