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Ubicomp And Our Changing Behaviour

Ubiquitous computing technology may sound like science fiction, but it has already found a role in our lives. Read more...

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Design Is Cool. From Co-Creation To Design For Social Change. The Question Remains What Makes Design Strategic?

By Idris Mootee

This is a week of design for me, meeting with two talented design practitioners in Boston who are running a very successful company, talked to the folks running two of the top design schools and interviewed 4 designers respectively from London, Brazil, LA and Toronto. And catching with my design reading on the weekend. UK [...] Read more...

Apples Keynote, Boiled down to superlatives.

By Paul Morrison

Apples Ipod keynote, boiled down to nothing but Superlatives. Enjoy this. Think they’re trying to let us know they product is Amazingly Nice and Just That Easy? Read more...

Did you know? Rev. 4.0

By John Lally

Here’s the latest version of the “Shift Happens” video. Fascinating facts and statistics regarding the surge of emerging technologies and social media innovations. Enjoy the mind candy. The following quotation from 60 years ago seems more relevant today than ever before. “Before I left England for China in 1936 a friend told me that there [...] Read more...

Kid Robot uses QR Codes to promote 2009 line of Dunnys

By John Lally

As a promotional tie-in corresponding with the launch of their 2009 series of “Dunny” action figures, toy and apparel designers Kid Robot have organized a mobile phone-based scavenger hunt in Manhattan centered around scanning Quick Response (QR) codes. After downloading an application for an iPhone or Blackberry that enables the user to scan the QR [...] Read more...

Jack Nicholson Was My Favorite Childhood Cartoon

By Paul Morrison

Check out this awesome video experiment, great visualization and re-representation of some powerful audio from The Shining. The Colouring from Dan Britt on Vimeo. Read more...

Newest Yelp! iPhone App Adds Augmented Reality Feature

By John Lally

Social review service Yelp! has added a very cool augmented reality (AR) feature to their latest version of its iPhone app, at least in the US. The undisclosed new feature allows iPhone 3Gs owners to shake their phones three times to turn on a view called “the Monocle.” This view uses the phone’s GPS and [...] Read more...

Is Craigslist the new model for web design?

By Andrew Swanson

Over 9 billion page views and 30 million viewers each month. Not too bad for a web site that started out as nothing more than a newsletter to help promote cool events happening in the San Francisco Bay area. Now Craigslist ranks 7th among the highest viewed English language websites, despite having a mind boggling [...] Read more...

At the Dawn of the Augmented Reality Industry

By Richard Thomas

For those of you who have been designing and following AR interfaces for years, this talk will be especially interesting, honest and funny. For the rest its a refreshing way to “do your homework.” 6189763 Read more...

Logo backlash: The university of ‘pew pew’?

By Edwin Lee

The University of Waterloo was preparing for a dramatic rebranding initiative when its new logo was prematurely leaked – to a tidal wave of derision from students and alumni. As you can see below, the new logo is a dramatic departure from the more traditional current incarnation on the left. Students, alumni and others have adopted a full-court press fueled [...] Read more...