- A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design
This is utterly brilliant. It very neatly skewers several big flaws in that Microsoft vision-of-the-future thing, and actually suggests several interesting possibilities for transformative technologies, if anyone can figure out how to do them. It also makes me think of a whole new spectrum of problems for people with certain disabilities that will need solving. If you give even a little shit about how you interact with the technology around you, this is a must read.
- Custom input types for edit in place
I think I'm about to fall down a JS hole. This, specific, JS hole. Lucky me.
Tag: interaction
Bookmarks for January 24, 2011
- Lost Bomber – Techbelly
Mentally link this with the story of the woman the other week who was looking to put her disabled daughter into care, because she couldn't cope with the cuts. Futher thoughts: anecdote != data, but anecdote is useful to understand and connect with data.
- Ben Bashford – Notebook of Things – Emoticomp
Interesting idea to bear in mind when designing apps/systems – how to give it an emotional face, that it is consistent, and ideally, compelling.
Bookmarks for February 18, 2009
- Elizabeth Gilbert on nurturing creativity | Video on TED.com
Interesting talk on models for a relationship with creativity. It's a bit hippy dippy in places, but then, her big book is called "Eat, Pray, Love" so what d'you expect? Still, it's worth thinking about for a few interesting lines of argument.
- Exporting the past into the future, or, “The Possibility Jelly lives on the hypersurface of the present” « Magical Nihilism
Matt Jones takes a look at some of the issues surrounding running geolocation based services, and the opportunities they offer us for the future. Particularly pertinent: "location is a matter of routine. We're in work, college, at home, at our corner shop, at our favourite pub. These patterns are worn into our personal maps of the city, and usually it's the exceptions to it that we record, or share – a special excursion, or perhaps a unexpected diversion – pleasant or otherwise that we want to broadcast for companionship, or assistance."
Bookmarks for September 7, 2008
- Welcome to The Shady Old Lady's Guide to London
Ugly as fuck, but this might be a useful site for reference/pocking around odd bits of Londonalia.
- MultiTouch – Modular MultiTouch LCD
Why yes, I do want this quite badly. Even just to use as a monitor/interface – I've gotten so used to slinging windows between virtual desktops that I would absolutely love to be able to do it by hand.
- Pulse Laser: OFF=ON, or, Whatever happened to Availabot?
This is one of those products that I simultaneously thing is quite a cool little representative thing, a genuinely nice idea in human computer interaction, and yet, I cannot see a practical use for. I either have multiple chat windows open, or I'm not using IM. And I just don't see how it'd work for multiple chat windows…
- List of London Gang names
OK, just two links on the subject, then.
- Category:Gangs in London – Wikipedia
Probably a few of these today
Bookmarks for Monday September 1st 2008 through Wednesday September 3rd 2008
- MultiTouch – Modular MultiTouch LCD
Why yes, I do want this quite badly. Even just to use as a monitor/interface – I've gotten so used to slinging windows between virtual desktops that I would absolutely love to be able to do it by hand.
- Pulse Laser: OFF=ON, or, Whatever happened to Availabot?
This is one of those products that I simultaneously thing is quite a cool little representative thing, a genuinely nice idea in human computer interaction, and yet, I cannot see a practical use for. I either have multiple chat windows open, or I'm not using IM. And I just don't see how it'd work for multiple chat windows…
- List of London Gang names
OK, just two links on the subject, then.
- Category:Gangs in London – Wikipedia
Probably a few of these today
Bookmarks for February 6, 2008
- Movement (Schulze & Webb)
S&W talk about movement as a metaphor for the web, and in the process, introduce a means of syndicating form-type actions via a modified RSS protocol they’re calling Snap. Potentially a huge change in the way people will interact with websites, here.
- What makes a great portrait?
A number of big name photographers answer the question. I’ve only skimmed this right now, because I’m barely awake, but it looks interesing enough to come back to when I can get more then 2 neurons to fire at once.