Last year I was in London with some friends and we ended up having dinner at Inamo in SoHo. They’ve … More
Month: January 2010
Keyboard Refinements
After my post about the fluidity of using the Symbolics keyboard, I thought Phil Gyford’s recent post about typing speeds … More
Realism Doesn’t Work
Lukas Mathis, for UX Magazine, recently wrote an interesting article: Realism in UI Design. It takes some of the ideas … More
Star Trek: PADDs
On the eve of the rumored announcement of an Apple Tablet, I started thinking about similar devices in Star Trek. … More
Symbolics Keyboard
Back in the 80s there was an AI (artificial intelligence) boom – a euphoric time of specialized computers and the … More
Are Phones Leading OS Innovation?
Here’s a great piece on Engadget by Paul Miller: Editorial: 10 outdated elements of desktop operating systems. It’s a very … More
Rediscovering Yugop
If you’ve never seen the work of Yugo Nakamura, known online as Yugop, go immediately to his website www.yugop.com and … More
Sketching in Code
I’ve always been interested in high-level design tools as a means for designers to easily sketch ideas without getting stuck … More
1963: Sketchpad
Today, in the US, is a holiday celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. It was in 1963 that Dr. King gave … More
Movie: Avatar
It’s safe to bet that interface design in movies will be a recurring theme here. They give us a glimpse … More
Design Education: Don’t be Separate!
I’m very interested in how we develop the next generation of interactive design talent. Partly because I’ve been both a … More
Haiti: Interactive Supporting Disaster Relief
The recent earthquake in Haiti is devastation beyond belief. But it’s been so encouraging to see how interactive technologies are … More
I.D. and Design Culture
Over the past several years I rarely read I.D. magazine. And so when it was recently announced that the magazine … More
Hi
Welcome to my new blog: Inventing Interactive. My friend Terry, who runs Sknitter, mentioned that keeping a blog fed is … More