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3 blogs down to two

I’m finding it hard to separate the design/architecture items I want to blog on my main blog from the design items I want to blog here, so I’ve decided that it’s fine to post Microsoft related stuff to my main blog. I’ve moved...

Published 08-07-2008 1:28 PM by rb.work

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Design streams

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...

Published 08-07-2008 9:12 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...

Published 07-30-2008 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...

Published 06-16-2008 9:02 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...

Published 06-12-2008 6:45 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...

Published 05-28-2008 3:50 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...

Published 05-06-2008 5:21 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...

Published 04-30-2008 4:21 AM by rb.work

Filed under: Design, visualization

Microsoft: Touchscreens Old and Busted; Force Sensitivity Is New Hotness

Great bit of coverage on Gizmodo for some force-sensing work coming out of our team in Cambridge. Microsoft: Touchscreens Old and Busted; Force Sensitivity Is New Hotness“Researchers have come up with a prototype of their force-sensing tech that’ll...

Published 04-24-2008 1:21 AM by rb.work

Filed under: Research, Microsoft, Press, Interaction

The snaps of strangers

One of the articles in Issue 28 of The Plug shows the results of tying a disposable camera to a bench in Atlanta, leaving it to strangers to fill the roll. The results show the street life around, friends, strangers, dogs. All kinds of stuff. I don’t...

Published 04-13-2008 3:59 AM by rb.work

Filed under: Intersting or Strange

HCI 2020 report on the radio

A little bit of coverage of the HCI 2020 report launch on the World Service’s “Digital Planet” radio show. Here’s the points during the show where our coverage begins: 14:10 - Being Human segment begins 14:49 - Interview with Gary...

Published 04-11-2008 9:18 AM by rb.work

Filed under: Microsoft, Press, Events

HCI 2020 report launched

A year ago Abi and Richard helped organize a gathering of 40+ “luminaries” from the field of Human-Computer Interaction to debate how the relationship between people and technology might change in the next decade. That event has resulted in...

Published 04-02-2008 2:47 PM by rb.work

Filed under: Microsoft, Press, Interaction, Events

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...

Published 03-13-2008 1:23 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...

Published 03-06-2008 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...

Published 01-27-2008 11:23 AM by rb.work

Filed under: Design

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