So with all of the feeds that focus on designing compelling technology, why one more stream of thoughts and resources?

The designer Bruce Mau has said “The word ‘studio’ is derives from ‘study’. Our object is not to know the answers before we do the work. It’s to know them after we do it.”

Looking back across the @FlashbulbUX feed, it’s been a great way to formalize ongoing learning, continue to evolve a point of view, and pull together disparate ideas that may be useful for anyone who defines or designs workplace tools. It’s also been an excellent way to start conversations with colleagues and clients about emerging trends.

It’s interesting to scan some of the most popular tweets from the last year, tracing the interests of people who have “paid attention” to Flashbulb Interaction’s updates:

• Overstated but relevant – If biz tech doesn’t catch up with UX we’re used to at home, workers may ditch corp network http://bit.ly/aYbT6u
• Concern that current usability research methods are inadequate for evaluating complex, domain-specific tools http://bit.ly/9Jr6h5
• A POV on app requirements “the collection of constraints that must be honored, or thoughtfully traversed” http://bit.ly/98IeIM
• An emerging area of knowledge work – synthesizing and making sense of a there’s “data for that” world http://bit.ly/aQZVOg
• To be successful, outputs of knowledge work must evoke knowledge in a recipient http://bit.ly/cZBzDm
• Building Info Modeling “lets you discover ways of construction and sequencing and optimizing shapes for cost” http://bit.ly/aQZVOg
• Case Management is the coordination of multiple tasks, planned or unplanned towards a concrete goal http://bit.ly/9aFSTc
• Another POV on what UX strategy work can include http://bit.ly/a7Gx6X @inspireUX — Also thinking about opportunities http://bit.ly/aLnRde
• One individual’s graph of own knowledge work, by outputs – reminiscent of Licklider’s formative introspection http://bit.ly/9GG8rg
• Concept video on emergency response w/ apps for large displays. Familiar futurism + work rationalization http://bit.ly/baukj5

In 2011, look for more 140 character, “bite size” updates about the studio’s projects, including some broad-stroke learnings from our client work.

Also, watch for ten different trend names attached to many FlashbulbUX tweets (instead of the “Resource” identifier). Updates on these trends will also be a fixture on this blog:

• Display Expansion
• Interaction Options
• Personal Assemblies
• Connective Hubs
• Collaborative Everyday
• Unobtrusive Guidance
• Informated Choices
• Cacooned Concentration
• Delightful Narratives
• Data Deepend

Each of these macro trends for the emerging workplace may grow sub-trends over time…

@J_Burghardt