Ever Notice?: Gain: AIGA Journal of Business and Design: Design & Business: AIGA - The Diigo Meta page

• 26 Oct 09
  

  Sam Joseph
• 10 Sep 08
  

  Garrett Pendergraft

  noticing observation

  • I’ve assigned students to routinely maintain a noticing log, either a blog (words with pictures) or a Flickr account (pictures with words). The exercise helps sharpen noticing skills by giving people permission to simply observe and document.
• 28 Aug 08
  

  Todd Suomela

  observation pattern design psychology import-delicious

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  Joan Vinall-Cox

  What you see is what you get! (Or hear, or smell, or feel, or sense) Interesting disussion. via Stephen Downes

  pattern visual_literacy observation

• 27 Aug 08
  

  perception pattern photo photography design creativity

  • saying, “Yes, and...,” guides us to notice and act in response to what the rest of the team is doing. It becomes this collaborative problem-solving activity that happens to generate a performance, rather than the typical “stuff from the inside comes out” model of performance.
  • Me and You and Everyone We Know, but there was something deeply compelling about how that film took the observation of details and made them dramatic plot points (the tension as we watched a goldfish forgotten on top of a moving vehicle) or character traits (a child who passionately accumulates housewares) or symbolic elements (the clarion call of a wind-blown signpost). There was a lot that made that film engaging, but so much of what kept the viewer moving through the narrative seemed to be in the way July elevated those details.
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  • • Noticing definitely draws on a set of skills that these kinds of characters embody and amplify, but at the heart of it you have to genuinely be interested in the world around you and in other people.
    • giving yourself permission to “just be,” to receive without transmitting, makes it possible to really drink in sensory data and to really listen to other people with an incredible kind of unforced compassion.
    • the activity of noticing the first one, and documenting it, meant that I was ready to notice and document the second, and beyond. So when we saw the concert crowd and the vans, we were able to connect it: “Oh, this is the performer that we’ve been seeing all the ads for.” This process of trying to figure out what’s going on in a new place, of finding and understanding patterns and themes
    • what comes out of that is not just that she exists, but what her existence means
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  Clarence Smith, Jr.

  "People are always surprised when they realize how many things they are actually experiencing but not really noticing".

  super-noticing observation lifehacks

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