Comments on: Open Source Product Design http://www.genomicon.com/2009/01/open-source-product-design/ The Crowd-Sourcing of Intelligent-Design Wed, 08 Feb 2012 01:08:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: admin http://www.genomicon.com/2009/01/open-source-product-design/comment-page-1/#comment-1354 admin Thu, 28 Oct 2010 11:06:07 +0000 http://www.genomicon.com/?p=466#comment-1354 Hiya - thanks for getting in touch... I think your calendar thing has potential to be combined with this http://lifehacker.com/281626/jerry-seinfelds-productivity-secret Which is a fairly effective habit-keeping device. Hiya – thanks for getting in touch…

I think your calendar thing has potential to be combined with this

http://lifehacker.com/281626/jerry-seinfelds-productivity-secret

Which is a fairly effective habit-keeping device.

]]> By: Cefn Hoile http://www.genomicon.com/2009/01/open-source-product-design/comment-page-1/#comment-1352 Cefn Hoile Wed, 27 Oct 2010 21:43:48 +0000 http://www.genomicon.com/?p=466#comment-1352 I'd really love to see the rich collaboration you get on Open Source Software transferred into the design process for physical products, but I don't see much going on. It's a real missed opportunity. To experiment in this space, I'm running a live open design project at http://tacticalendar.co.uk . It's a design for a laser-cut plywood perpetual-horizon erasable calendar. Hand-finished Tacticalendars are available for mail order, whilst the laser-cutter files are published under the creative commons for people to experiment making their own derived works. There's an instructable available if you're not sure how to fabricate. Consistent with the open source model, there's even a github issue tracker! This means feature suggestions and bugs can be recorded, triaged and incorporated into the design as it is iterated. The product is released through beta versions, release candidates and finally stable versions appear after much user testing. Betas and release candidates are for sale at cost price for people who want to save money and work with us to perfect the ideas. The v0.1 design was canned early - the first physical prototype immediately suggested a better approach. We're now at v0.2 release candidate 3, and there's only one non-functional modification before v0.2 is declared stable and serious shipping will begin. Version 0.3 beta will follow, incorporating fiduciary markers to synchronize the calendar with Google from a camera phone. Tacticalendar is the first project to be taken to market from the pool of ideas published as part of the public domain invention-a-week project at http://enigmaker.org . I'm hoping someone else will beat me to market with the second :) I’d really love to see the rich collaboration you get on Open Source Software transferred into the design process for physical products, but I don’t see much going on. It’s a real missed opportunity.

To experiment in this space, I’m running a live open design project at http://tacticalendar.co.uk . It’s a design for a laser-cut plywood perpetual-horizon erasable calendar.

Hand-finished Tacticalendars are available for mail order, whilst the laser-cutter files are published under the creative commons for people to experiment making their own derived works. There’s an instructable available if you’re not sure how to fabricate.

Consistent with the open source model, there’s even a github issue tracker! This means feature suggestions and bugs can be recorded, triaged and incorporated into the design as it is iterated.

The product is released through beta versions, release candidates and finally stable versions appear after much user testing. Betas and release candidates are for sale at cost price for people who want to save money and work with us to perfect the ideas.

The v0.1 design was canned early – the first physical prototype immediately suggested a better approach. We’re now at v0.2 release candidate 3, and there’s only one non-functional modification before v0.2 is declared stable and serious shipping will begin. Version 0.3 beta will follow, incorporating fiduciary markers to synchronize the calendar with Google from a camera phone.

Tacticalendar is the first project to be taken to market from the pool of ideas published as part of the public domain invention-a-week project at http://enigmaker.org . I’m hoping someone else will beat me to market with the second :)

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