Durrell Bishop ,co-founder of LuckyBite and the only person to have graduated from both Industrial and Interaction Design at the Royal College of Art in London (read as ‘really knows his stuff’), gave a very interesting talk to us today in the studio. He primarily talked us through his previous work but also spoke about physical interaction, skills and visualising systems/services; all subjects I am very interested in.

After the talk Graham Pullin brought Durrell round us individually to offer some professional critique. I feel that my talk with him was very informative and brought to the surface many issues which hadn’t even slightly crossed my mind; for example does the iPhone work with gloves (apparently there is a brand which does work).

Durrell definitely gave me a lot of food for thought but I got a very strong impression that he was offering his advice as a designer who will see this project from concept to completion; whilst invaluable I think my situation is slightly different in that I am developing user experience prototype and not a product with a definite end.

If I were to take two of his statements from the talk it’d be these:

“Interactive stuff in museum is sad as we are losing our ‘real’ things. Real stuff has a history/story behind it which a curator cannot build into it.”

and

“…changing an interaction to make it fluid completely changes what you can do with things.”

I realise I sound awfully depressive here, which I don’t mean to. I am still very optimistic about the outcome of this project but have just got some more material to mull over and potentially make this project even better.