Espen Klem

Doing things, telling people!
Drawing of peoples' faces, bodyparts, body-sizes and -shapes and different people, young and old.

Human beings and interaction — Get your people to interact

Stick figures can work for a lot of scenarios, but several of them interacting isn’t one of them. They tend to look very alike, not letting you differentiate them when you need to. Key takeaway: How to draw people. How to make them interact. Emotions, middle aged, young, old, different looks and body shapes. Workshop setup — part of Drawing to communicate workshop series. 1. Draw a human being (2 minutes) Tell your participants to draw as many humans they can....

April 2, 2020 · 2 min
Personal search information model so far.

Personal search information model

Things are actually going according to plan. Automatic indexing is up and running, and search is working, so now it’s time for a search information model. A search information model is kind of the information architecture of a search solution. The difference is that a good search engine revolves around the user more than a web page structure. You mold your information architecture to best fit your user, even if this doesn’t match the underlying architecture fully....

March 10, 2015 · 4 min
IFTTT recipes storing data from Youtube, Instagram, Twitter and GitHub to a Google Drive Spreadsheet.

Idea: Your life, searchable through Norch — NOde seaRCH

What if you could index your whole life and make this lifeindex available through search? What would that look like, and how could it help you? Refinding information is obviously one of the use case for this type of search. I’m guessing there’s a lot more, and I’m curious to figure them out. Actions and reactions instead of web pages I had the lifeindex idea for a little while now. Originally the idea was to index everything I browsed....

November 25, 2014 · 5 min