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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...
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08-07-2008 9:12 AM
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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...
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07-30-2008 11:16 AM
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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...
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06-16-2008 9:02 AM
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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...
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06-12-2008 6:45 AM
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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...
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05-28-2008 3:50 AM
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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...
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05-06-2008 5:21 PM
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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...
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04-30-2008 4:21 AM
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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...
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03-13-2008 1:23 PM
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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...
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03-06-2008 10:25 AM
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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...
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01-27-2008 11:23 AM
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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...
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01-24-2008 6:40 AM
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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...
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01-18-2008 6:56 AM
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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...
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01-18-2008 5:46 AM
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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...
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01-10-2008 9:52 AM
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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...
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01-10-2008 9:41 AM
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