A historical blog note, 17 October 2005
Email, Mobile Phones and Attention: A 2005 Blog Note
While working on an email-visualisation project, Anjali Arora posted a short note about two news stories she had been reading. Published on 17 October 2005, it connected her design work with questions about the habits surrounding email and mobile messaging.
Communication as a daily habit
The post linked to contemporary BBC reports about office email and intensive text messaging. Those references locate the discussion in the communications culture of 2005: email was both a design problem to organise and an everyday activity attracting public attention.
The value of the note is in that connection. It records what a designer was noticing alongside her work, rather than providing a technical specification for the visualisation project.
Continue the design thread
Artbrush's later FoundIt pages address finding files and email, while the ArchChive testing notes explore visual ways of presenting information. Read those project guides alongside the archived post to follow this strand of the site.