We digital filmmakers may drool over the sight of awesome new gear like Canon's EOS C300 Digital Cinema Camera, but dealing with the footage that comes out is often a royal pain. The days of "one mag of film equals about 12 minutes" ...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»
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»
You know those dudes who walk around with hands-free Bluetooth headsets jammed into their ears all day? Maybe their twittishness isn't a character flaw, but an unintentional emergent effect of poor product design: let's face it, those ...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»
I'm lucky enough not to be drowning in email, so keeping my inbox clean doesn't require zen-like discipline. But for everyone else out there for whom "Inbox Zero" is a fantasy at best, there's a handy web-app called "The Email Game," ...READ»
This just in: In the future, everything will be lushly luxurious, gleamingly clean, and digitally magical. Yup, it's another corporate "the future of . . ." video, this time courtesy of Microsoft Office. This dazzlingly mounted ...READ»
BankSimple has gotten a lot of buzz since we first wrote about its user-friendly design philosophy back in March. With good reason: The user experience of online banking is wretched. As BankSimple CEO Josh Reich tells Co.Design, ...READ»
Since Larry Page assumed the CEO reins of Google, the search giant has been redesigning left and right: Its suite of productivity apps has gotten a facelift, and Google Plus boasted Apple-esque interaction design. But UI design isn't ...READ»
Tony Fadell invented the iPod. Okay, he didn't do it singlehandedly--but the former Apple executive conceived it, got Apple on board, and then went on to shepherd the development of 18 (!) generations of the company's signature ...READ»
Prestigious innovation conferences are either invitation-only or too damned expensive for a guy with a new baby to spring for. So when I saw that PopTech had released an iPad app to accompany its latest conference in Camden, Maine ...READ»
Our post about Mark Noad's attempt to improve the classic London Underground map (or is it a diagram?) got readers excited and enraged in equal measure. That didn't stop him from continuing to refine his creation, which adds ...READ»
What's makes sites like A Working Library and Pictory stand out from the pack in terms of readability? Clear, humane typography, of course. But what makes that possible? Web fonts: legally-licensed real typefaces dynamically served ...READ»
Drug design is a scientific problem so important that researchers are willing to throw just about any kind of creative problem-solving approach at it, including tech-buzzwords like gamification and augmented reality. The latter ...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»
Chris Harrison, a PhD student in Human-Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon University, is full of interesting interface ideas. One of his latest projects is called OmniTouch, whose prototype design uses a shoulder-worn, ...READ»
My wife and I have the same smartphone, a Droid Incredible. But because she works for a company with a constipated attitude about confidentiality, some IT guy forced her to install an irritating lockout code on her personal phone just ...READ»
Do you know what an API (application programming interface) is? If you're not a web developer, there's rarely any need to, but APIs are basically what makes the modern World Wide Web, with all its interconnecting interactive services ...READ»
I tend not to be thrilled with "enhanced" toys that add a pre-packaged digital layer to the natural interactions that a kid can come up with on her own while playing. They usually seem too cumbersome to be fun (hold your phone-cam ...READ»
