This week marked the launch of the website OpenIDEO. The site allows anyone to participate in design challenges posed by IDEO and their clients. There are loads of open innovation sites out there, but what’s nice about OpenIDEO is that it makes the process feel much more accessible and inviting. Their four timed phases, inspriation, concepting, refinement, and evaluation, give the challenges a easy-to-follow flow, and a clear way to let the user know how to…
 
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Back in 1998, when I first saw The Lair of the Marrow Monkey I was totally taken in. In an era of CD-ROMs which sequenced the user through mostly static screens, or of experimental works with seemingly random or chaotic interactions, Lair‘s merger of storytelling with focused interactivity was really special. And then, three years later, along came Chroma (2001), which took those ideas and advanced them to new heights. The work connected the interactive…
 
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