Understanding farm tourism

Part 1 of 8 in the series Deliverables.

This is the first in a series of posts about methods and deliverables from projects I have been part of.

In the little video I discuss how I and my sister Åsa took a theoretical approach to understanding farm tourism and rural tourism in general. We gained three insight that informed our communication strategy and also influenced the actual product – a vacation apartment on our family farm Smultronboda. I was a bit nervous in the beginning when recording, but bare with me – I say “hhhmmm” a lot less towards the end ;)

Errata: about 8 minutes into the video I incorrectly state that we used the same perspectives for “degrees of importance” and “valuable conflicts”. What I should have said is that the perspectives are similar, not identical.

NISO conference talk: From somewhat awful to pretty great for librarians, a new e-commerce tool

We started building an e-commerce tool for librarians to license individual eBooks. The first version was partly good, partly awful. It is getting better, a little at a time.

Interaction design: The Bolibompa dragon

Part 13 of 13 in the series Some of my skills.

All adults know that dragons giggle when they are tickled. But many kids have not found that out yet. So we in the Bolibompa team set out to build a digital dragon who kids relate to and whom they want to tickle! A Ticklish Mission.

Design research: How we 3 to 5 year olds behave

Part 12 of 13 in the series Some of my skills.

Sure, we are individuals. But when we are given an iPad many of us behave quite predictably. We always relax ... and are always active.

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