flâneur

Performances, Everyone's talented | #28 · Weiwei Xu

weiwei.place · 388 words · saved by 1 readers

I’ve been thinking about the idea of performing. Something one of my teacher from college said, that left a deep impression with me, was along the line of :”If I can start a major, I would call it [Performing Arts] and we can just experiment with different ideas on stage or in real life.” I’ve always loved that idea of the process and outcomes of interaction design are performances. Whether you are pitching an idea, showing your best friends around your city, or rallying a team to accomplish a milestone, you are putting on a show. This thinking proved to work well when I presented my senior thesis by acting out as a computer. Although I didn’t translate those content for other platforms, I think creating content online (or even running a company) would also benefit from thinking about theatrical performances. Perhaps this is why Ted Nelson said computers are a branch of filmmaking. This thinking also aligns with how Disney structure their organization. They call all of their customers,

Performances, Everyone's talented | #28 · Weiwei Xu Written while drinking smoothie during the week of June 23, 2019 Performances, Everyone's talented | #28 I’ve been thinking about the idea of performing. Something one of my teacher from college said, that left a deep impression with me, was along the line of :”If I can start a major, I would call it [Performing Arts] and we can just experiment with different ideas on stage or in real life.” I’ve always loved that idea of the process and outcomes of interaction design are performances. Whether you are pitching an idea, showing your bes

related reading