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From concept to video prototype: the early form of the Pen
It was in late 2012 that the concept for the Pen was pitched to the museum by Local Projects, working then as subcontractors to Diller Scofidio & Renfro. The concept portrayed the Pen as an...
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Exporting your visits
Starting today you can export the items you have collected or created during your visits to the museum. When you export a visit we will bundle up all the objects you’ve collected and all the items...
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Collect all the things – shoeboxes, shop items and the Pen
You can now collect any object in the collection, or on display, from the collections website itself. Just like in the galleries there is a small “collect” icon on the top right-hand side of every...
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Object concordances – what is the simplest thing to match like with like?
Do you notice anything special about this screenshot of Charles Eames’ famous No. 670 Chair? It might be hard to see because it’s a tall screenshot and this is a small thumbnail. Have a look at the...
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100 days
Today marks the 100th day since the Pen started being distributed to visitors. Its been a wild ride and the latest figures are far beyond our estimations. As of today, Pens have been handed out to...
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“Visual Consistency”– tweaking the online collection
The multi–award winning alpha version of our site launched in 2012 and in the following three years it has grown very quickly. New data was imported, new pages were made, new API methods went public,...
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Iterating the “Post-Visit Experience”
The final phase of a visitor’s experience at Cooper Hewitt, after they’ve left the museum, is what we call the “post-visit experience.” Introduced along with the Pen in March, it is a personalized...
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The Emoji Timeline
We made an emoji timeline. You can see it on any object page — it looks like this: I want to frame the work we did on the timeline around web accessibility. Web accessibility — the idea that something...
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On Exhibitions and Iterations
Since reopening in December 2014, we’ve found that the coming opening of an exhibition is a big driver of iteration. The work involved in preparing an exhibition involves the whole museum and is one of...
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A Very Happy & Open Birthday for the Pen
Today marks the first birthday of our beloved Pen. It’s been an amazing year, filled will many iterations, updates, and above all, visits! Today is a celebration of the Pen, but also of all of our...
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