What is it with these innovative weather apps lately? I wouldn't have thought this useful-but-boring space would be so attractive to designers and developers, but here's another one that really raises the bar: Dark Sky, an app that ...READ»
What is it with these innovative weather apps lately? I wouldn't have thought this useful-but-boring space would be so attractive to designers and developers, but here's another one that really raises the bar: Dark Sky, an app that ...READ»
Paywalls may be working for the New York Times, but other publishers looking for a digital lifeline may not want to rely on them. Still, what's the alternative? Google has quietly cooked one up that asks online readers to answer one ...READ»
Timeline was the toast of Facebook's F8 developer's conference in September, but those lucky enough to attend in person were treated to one of the funkier Facebook visualizations we've seen: a live-action interactive data ...READ»
Timeline was the toast of Facebook's F8 developer's conference in September, but those lucky enough to attend in person were treated to one of the funkier Facebook visualizations we've seen: a live-action interactive data ...READ»
As a daily writer and reader, I can't live without Twitter: I get story ideas there, I drum up freelance work there, I get inspired and educated there. But man, that 140-character limit is a bitch sometimes. And let's face it--in ...READ»
Unless you're Chris Milk and get to regularly collaborate with Google on jaw-dropping video/interactive fusions, adding interactive design to your web filmmaking is a tall order. But it shouldn't have to be that way--which is why ...READ»
I’ve found that most cooks don’t bake. Why? Baking is a precise science. There’s no wriggle room, so if you mess up (forget an ingredient or overdo it on one), you’re screwed. And there’s very little tasting along the way. ...READ»
Surveillance equipment is supposed to cut costs, but if it stalls in rough terrain or breaks, it can actually add to them. That’s a design problem.
In Sweden, a mobile surveillance robot originally designed to explore other ...READ»
In the century and a half since it was invented, has the basic user experience of consumer photography changed all that much? Cameras have gotten smaller, more rugged, more sensitive, sharper and smarter. But you still basically hold ...READ»
Car-racing games are just about the only modern video games my 33-year-old hand-eye-coordination system can deal with anymore. Gears of War? Forget it, too complicated. Even Portal taxes my pathetic thumb control. But driving--that's ...READ»
I blog regularly about designers who should learn how to code, but what about vice versa? Method of Action is a new web-based education initiative whose mission is to teach programmers the basics of good design, and it's launched a ...READ»
In all the coverage of Facebook and its dominance, one group is seldom talked about: The 64-member design staff, which is busy honing interactions that affect hundreds of millions of people.READ»
Pop Chart Lab, one of our favorite creators of infographics, has done it again: a poster which every gamer should get RIGHT THIS SECOND. Having already tracked everything from wrestler names to beer, they've created what is surely the ...READ»
It sounds like a character in a Ridley Scott film: A robot that's so smart, so efficient, it only works when people are there to monitor its performance. A robot that's so creative, so conniving, it actually preys upon human attention ...READ»
A live poetry reading is usually an intimate experience, but that doesn't mean it can't be augmented with some high-tech spectacle as well. That's exactly what "creative coder" Andrea Cuius and designer Roland Ellis created for poet ...READ»
Okay, so you probably shouldn't be mindlessly scrolling past photos of cats dressed up like palm readers when you're supposed to be tapping data into spreadsheets. But rather than pulling the plug on your web browser, interaction ...READ»
You know a sci-fi concept like "brain/computer interface" is gaining critical mass when it starts to be incorporated into incredibly silly products. I remember playing with a brain-sensor headset from Emotiv at CES a few years ago, ...READ»
Geoff Keighley is kind of like the John McPhee of video game journalism: he made his name by publishing exhaustively reported, fly-on-the-wall accounts of the making of blockbuster games like Metal Gear Solid 2 and Half-Life 2. Then ...READ»
Medical devices are among the subtlest, trickiest design problems to solve: we only encounter them when we're frightened or sick, and they often look like science fiction torture machines. But what if an assistive device, like a ...READ»
