Device Design Day 2012: Six Questions for Andrew Milmoe
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In anticipation of Device Design Day (D3) 2012, we’re partnering with Kicker Studio for a preview of this year’s conference by asking Andrew Milmoe to reflect on six questions about design and his practice. For those of you who might be unfamiliar with D3, the 3rd annual conference brings together visual, interaction and industrial designers for a multi-disciplinary conversation about the design of consumer electronics and objects with embedded technology.
Andrew’s goal is to express thought leadership in using technology to enhance the customer experience with a brand across all touch points…from web to iPhones, iPads, video touch walls, kiosks, toys, and future emerging channels. His background includes rapid prototyping and testing, information architecture, art curation, interactive public art, and industrial design. He earned a B.F.A. from Carnegie Mellon and an M.P.S. from New York University’s ITP.
As a champion of interactive and public art he seeks to teach people with diverse backgrounds how to expand their vocabulary of expression by incorporating sensors, actuators and microcontroller based systems in to their artworks. He is still proud of making a LEGO car with front wheel drive when he was 11 years old.
We’re excited to be a media partner for Device Design Day and as a thank you to Core77 readers, we’re offering a 10% discount to the conference. Just enter the code: Core77 under “Promotional Code” on the Eventbrite Ticketing page.
Device Design Day 2012
Friday, August 3rd
9:30AM – 5PM
San Francisco Art Institute
800 Chestnut Street
San Francisco CA 94133
See our coverage of the first two years here (2010) and here (2011) and don’t forget to register today!
Kicker Studio: What is your most cherished product, and why?
Andrew Milmoe: I consider our mid-century modern Eichler home my most cherished product. Our home is a product as it was designed in the ’60s as one of 11,000 tract homes mass produced in California. Ours being one of the later models, it is the result of iteration and testing that resulted in an efficient, affordable, and stylish home.
What’s the one product you wish you had created/built/designed, and why?
The telegraph…perhaps it’s more of an invention than a product. It had a tremendous impact on people’s lives. It must have been magical to suddenly be able to nearly instantaneously transmit communication across great distances without moving physical atoms through space. It created the first “network of networks” and had a lasting global impact on nearly every aspect of life.
A class in signalling and wireless telegraphy at the Melbourne Technical College. See page for author, via Wikimedia Commons
What excites you about today’s tools and technology?
Not only are tools becoming faster and cheaper, but they are getting in to the hands of younger and more culturally diverse people. (The future will not be designed by old white western males.) Products and services are being developed, vetted, crowd sourced, and shared, shipped, or 3D printed worldwide. Consumers will be able to chose between highly mediated experiences (Apple) and DIY/Crafted experiences (Etsy).
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