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  Thought this was a great find from LifeHacker, about the 2003 keynote by the author Neal Stephenson at USENIX. When he wrote his first novel it was on a "modern" typewriter with a plastic ribbon that would start jamming in Iowa’s July heat... Posted Aug 07 2008, 09:12 AM by rb.work Filed under: Design, Heroes, Intersting or Strange

• Microsoft Design Expo 2008

  I’ve been really impressed by the student output from the design courses at Dundee University in Scotland. I saw work from the Innovative Product Design (IPD) course at New Designers a couple of years ago and was really struck by the fact that they... Posted Jul 30 2008, 11:16 AM by rb.work Filed under: Design, Interaction, Events

• Putting the craft into technology

  Radios made in Indonesia by local craftsmen from sustainable sources of wood. Really like this idea of hand-crafted technology objects Read More... Posted Jun 16 2008, 09:02 AM by rb.work Filed under: Design, Technology, Intersting or Strange

• THE ECO ZOO

  I’m really blown away by the Eco Zoo as the first very compelling example of the use of 3D in a Flash website. The art style is lovely, very reminiscent of the shots I’ve seen of the forthcoming Playstation 3 game, Little Big Planet. Read... Posted Jun 12 2008, 06:45 AM by rb.work Filed under: Design, Interaction

• Tag Galaxy

  I’m a bit of a 3D UI sceptic. I just have some history in the area, and it’s left me thinking that 3D interactions are often cumbersome and rarely have a life beyond what their cool factor gives them. Case in point is this Tag Galaxy search... Posted May 28 2008, 03:50 AM by rb.work Filed under: Design, visualization, Interaction

• LEBBEUS WOODS on Lines

  Poetic entry on drawing from Lebbeus Woods. “Even though I am best known for my drawings, and have spent many years as a teacher of architects, I have never taught drawing. The reason is that each person who wants to draw should devise his or her... Posted May 06 2008, 05:21 PM by rb.work Filed under: Design, Heroes, visualization

• News visualizations

  A couple of really nice, back to back posts on visualizing the news from Visualcomplexity.com. The first is a visualization by Dave Bowker of a week of news from the Guardian newspaper. Dave attempts to connect the dots between sets of articles. The second... Posted Apr 30 2008, 04:21 AM by rb.work Filed under: Design, visualization

• Green objects

  There’s an irony in green product design that we may just never get passed since you need to purchase new stuff, and creatively recycle/throw out the thing you’re replacing, in order to follow your ethics. Sometimes it just feels better to... Posted Mar 13 2008, 01:23 PM by rb.work Filed under: Design, Interaction

• Design and the Elastic Mind

  I wish I could make it to New York to see the Design and the Elastic Mind exhibition at MOMA. It sounds like it allows you to see or experience many of the objects and interfaces that I’ve blogged about over the last few years, and many that I haven’t... Posted Mar 06 2008, 10:25 AM by rb.work Filed under: Design, Research, Projects, Microsoft, Press

• Forcing ideas

  I’m a big admirer of the 100 Chairs in 100 days project as an example of forcing ideas, and doing more with less. Read More... Posted Jan 27 2008, 11:23 AM by rb.work Filed under: Design

• Ask E.T.: Interface design and the iPhone

  Edward Tufte has posted a video that extols and criticises the iPhone UI design. He’s clearly a fan, and having played with the device I can understand why. I thought his critique on the Stock widget was particularly interesting, though, calling... Posted Jan 24 2008, 06:40 AM by rb.work Filed under: Design, Interaction

• Braun vs. Apple - a little respect

  I have no problem with this article drawing some close comparisons between the work of Dieter Rams and the work of Jonathan Ive at Apple. It’s not blatant plagiarism, and the calculator in the iPhone already demonstrated that the respect was there... Posted Jan 18 2008, 06:56 AM by rb.work Filed under: Design, Heroes

• Visualization overview

  Feeling like a cross between a Tufte lecture and a flick through any recent book on Processing or Flash masters, this article presents a good overview of the job and direction of ancient and modern data visualization. “In his introductory text Read... Posted Jan 18 2008, 05:46 AM by rb.work Filed under: Design, visualization

• NonObjects

  Some thoughts about prototyping, particularly the creation of product fictions using visualization tools, rapid prototyping and the internet to disseminate ideas. “At a site called Idealist, designers upload images of fictional products that they... Posted Jan 10 2008, 09:52 AM by rb.work Filed under: Design

• Getting the most out of ancient software

  Who said you have to have all the high-tech toys to be creative. More often then not it’s better not to. A little constraint can go a long way… “Staake once told me that he still draws with a mouse and an ancient copy of Adobe Photoshop... Posted Jan 10 2008, 09:41 AM by rb.work Filed under: Design