Hopper Analytical - Projects

ShareBoard 1.2.1

Sun, 25 Dec 2005 16:58:43 -0500

ShareBoard is a software experiment I began in multi-level collaboration. The software is a simple utility I wrote as a Konfabulator widget that allows a work team member to post a short message to be displayed simultaneously on all workteam computer desktops. The goal is to enable a creative group to collaborate and contribute simultaneously on (at least) three fronts:
1. Submit content to be shared
2. Submit feature requests as part of an integrated request forum
3. Submit code candidates as part of an integrated opensource project for the widget itself.

The primary goal of the project is to see how an overtly simple tool may inspire contributions on different fronts. After collecting initial feedback, I was inspired to make comments on complexity.

Stay tuned for version updates and more commentary from our learnings.

Wi-Lo

Fri, 4 Nov 2005 23:58:42 -0500

Wi-Lo (Wireless Location-Space) combines NetStumbler's scripting API with Konfabulator's design widgets to visually monitor your wireless multi access point location-space in realtime on your PC/Mac desktop.

Like most of my personal projects, this tries to explore multiple concepts. Wi-Lo combines the design simplicity required for desktop info-visualization with the barrier-lowering creative capacity of two scripting engines that target end-user development. This project is in progress.

AIGA Boston Book Group

Thu, 3 Nov 2005 12:37:22 -0500

While I was Director of Community Development for AIGA Boston, my energetic and disciplined design co-conspirator Cyndy proposed a local design-oriented book group with the goal of stimulating thinking on design. Discussing design is not only great fun, but serves the additional purpose of helping me identify topics and environments that successfully engage professional designers. Together we launched the group and Cyndy went on to chair the program. She has successfully kept it going for two years and about a dozen books and counting.

The project has grown to have two groups and 20+ local design professionals. We've held our first public event at the The Institute of Contemporary Art presenting a guest lecture by Nicholas Blechman, author of Empire: Nozone IX.

Publications

Wed, 2 Nov 2005 23:13:43 -0500

Aside from my blog on innovation and community, I’ve published an article on Innovation (pdf) in the CEO Refresher and Effective Executive and have been reviewed by Manyworlds.com and The Innoversity Network. I’ve also been covered by The Boston Business Journal on strategic business research.

Check out the Published reviews.