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 Read More...
Posted to
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on 08-07-2008
Filed under: Design, Heroes, Intersting or Strange
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 Read More...
Posted to
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on 07-30-2008
Filed under: Design, Interaction, Events
Radios made in Indonesia by local craftsmen from sustainable sources of wood. Really like this idea of hand-crafted technology objects Read More...
Posted to
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on 06-16-2008
Filed under: Design, Technology, Intersting or Strange
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 More...
Posted to
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on 06-12-2008
Filed under: Design, Interaction
GottaBeMobile.com forum member JasonJ is a prolific inker. He’s been at the avant-garde of InkSeine for some time now. He’s offered us lots of great feedback and has a flair for illustrating his points. For example, he’d like us to add a sizing tab to make it easier to resize the InkSeine application...
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 Read More...
Posted to
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on 05-28-2008
Filed under: Design, visualization, Interaction
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 Read More...
Posted to
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on 05-06-2008
Filed under: Design, Heroes, visualization