Inventing Interactive
Lately I’ve been thinking about the evolving world that interactive media designers inhabit. My recent post on Digital Archeology may be to blame, as it highlighted how the needs and interests of users have changed over the past 20 years. And the role of designers — including the types of environments in which we can best […]
The tale of Apple popularizing the mouse in the 80’s — taking it from the relative obscurity of the labs at Xerox PARC — is a technology and industry legend. But the fact that mouse had earlier beginnings, invented by Douglas Engelbart (and featured in his Sketchpad demo) in the 60’s is less discussed. Malcolm […]
Very Recent History – a view of things I’ve been reading recently… It feels like the past week has been an online flurry of intense ideas and conversations. It started with Helen Walters post (which, technically, was from last week) Design and Business: The Bottom Line. It’s lengthy, but it’s a great perspective on what […]
Head over, immediately, to Google’s The Creative Internet. The site lists 106 examples of brilliant online creativity and experimentation. Many of them you’ve seen before, or I’ve posted here — and I suspect I’ll steal some things and do future posts about them — but seeing them all together is a great reminder of what’s […]
This week, both Twitter and Digg released new versions of their services. Digg launched a redesigned version of their website, Twitter released a new iPad app. But the difference in how the two releases have been received by users is remarkable. People are pretty unhappy about the new Digg. People love the new Twitter app. […]
In the latest issue of Fast Company magazine there’s a fascinating article, ‘A’ Is for App, on how technology may unleash childhood creativity and transform education. The article begins with the usual stories about how children, often just a year old, are naturals with the iPhone. Simple yet playful apps help them build vocabulary and learn […]