Archive for the “Thoughts” category
We know the world is lost.
by Dries De Roeck on January 6, 2016
Out of all ‘2015 year ending’ posts, the closing paragraph in the tale of tales one stuck with me most. I can totally relate to this, and really look forward to their work in the days, months and weeks to (…)
#thingsconAMS notes
by Dries De Roeck on December 5, 2015
Thingscon is turning out a very nice place for me to reflect on IoT in a non technical and business dominated mindset. I took some quick notes during the talks. Not intending to be coherent, but pointers that stuck with (…)
Braided products and wickerwork.
by Dries De Roeck on November 24, 2015
Suppose that you’d put 10 knowledgable people in a room, chances are high they all have a different understanding of ‘the Internet of Things’. Someone working for a startup company will think totally different on this compared to someone working (…)
Living with a GoodNightLamp
by Dries De Roeck on September 16, 2015
Ever since Alexandra announced the GoodNightLamp as something that was going to happen ‘for real’, I have been a #lampfan. Since the beginning of summer I’ve been living with an actual, functioning, GoodNightLamp and I wanted to share some insights (…)
The work of tomorrow.
by Dries De Roeck on August 17, 2015
There are too many good quotes in this Medium answer by Esko Kilp on this post by Tim O’Reilly. I suggest that you just read the whole thing. Yes, platforms are the most modern iteration of the firm but the impact (…)
The long tail of internet of things things #thingscon
by Dries De Roeck on May 11, 2015
During #thingscon 2015 I talked about meaningful connected products. I wrote about some central concepts of meaning on this blog before, but consolidated some of that thinking in a new model : the long tail of internet of things things. Note (…)
Designers and Engineers
by Dries De Roeck on September 26, 2014
Excellently put by John Maeda. This statement has quite a lot of links to my earlier post. Exciting times. For designers, elegance equals empathy; for engineers, elegance equals efficiency. We need both. — John Maeda (@johnmaeda) September 26, 2014
A neo-luddite internet of things
by Dries De Roeck on September 24, 2014
Over the last weeks I have been wondering what my (personal?) issue is related to all the internet of things, connected products, networked objects, etc… I see popping up allover the place. Very little connected products seem to be able to (…)
Research framing
by Dries De Roeck on July 2, 2014
I had previously written about the outline of my thesis on this blog. Within this thesis, I plan/planned to have a couple of central references to frame the research done. For now, these have been divided in three ‘clusters’ which (…)
Meaningful connected products
by Dries De Roeck on June 26, 2014
Over a period of a few weeks, I have been or will be giving a couple of talks on meaningful connected products (here, here and here). Although that the talks are all different, I wanted to introduce some of the (…)