CES 2010 Panel: Inventing the Smartphone Culture-Mobile Device and Mobile Network-Integrating the Full PC Experience into a Personal Communications Device

Stop by and listen in on our discussion at CES 2010:

"It's hard to believe that a product considered absurd just two years ago is now America's most popular personal accessory. With its full range of capabilities -- computing, watching, texting, emailing, networking …

Will we soon explore digital ruins of yesteryear?

Awhile back, perhaps a long time ago in the digital age I used to run a BBS. I used the Telegard BBS software and ran it with a 9600 baud modem, rocking a 386sx (the sx was for slow xtreme) cpu.

Doing some research for command line game mechanics I was trying to …

Experimental 3D Navigation Model: For Real-Time Information

This is more of a POC for a potential hybrid screenreader. One of the items that I am planning to explore in early Q1 is the use of 3D sound / holographic sound to use within the proposed system. This testing should prove to be a lot of fun.

Abstract

This paper …

CES 2010 - Mobile Entertainment

So this promises to be interesting for sure. I tend to digress a bit in presentations, all in good fun, so i'm looking forward to the panel format. See you there...is Hard Rock Rehab going on at that time?

Panel: Inventing the Smartphone Culture - Mobile Device and …

Has Mobile Killed the Brand?

Well I had to get your attention somehow, didn't I?

Has the mobile device killed traditional branding? Arguably, for the time being, it has. Currently brands and agencies are trying so hard to get iPhone applications out, mobile sites, blackberry apps, that what …

American Disabilities Act and the Mobile Web

The ADA within the commercial space for non brick and mortar commerce is an opaque area. Most litigation related to the ADA and commerce tends to be settled out of court; so currently there are no laws or rulings established. For those of you familiar with Target and …

SXSW 2010: Elevating Design Patterns Beyond the Desktop

http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/3747

Organizer:
Cameron Friedlander, Designkitchen
Description:
Traditional forms of finding, sorting, viewing information, catalogs and large data sets still embrace the classic idea of the desktop metaphor. As …

SXSW 2010: Creative Technology: Defining a Common Ground

http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/3941

Organizer:
Cameron Friedlander, Designkitchen
Description:
Success in the field of “creative technology” is characterized by the artful management of multiple factors -- including people, process, …

Exploration of Design Patterns for Large Result Sets

This was a quick exploration into more advanced design patterns for kayak.com. The idea for both of these sets is to allow the user to view 100's of results on a single page, have an idea as to where their "core" search criteria is, and allow them to view items just …

Focus Groups Lead to Bland Products

There was a recent article in BBC news with the product designer for the iPhone (among other items), Mr. Jonathan Ive.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2009/07/listening_to_mr_iphone.html

So how did the company decide what customers wanted - surely by using …

Augmented Reality Still Struggles to Find Meaning

First off let me caveat this by saying that all the work behind the recent Augmented Reality (AR) pieces is truly amazing. I commend the agencies, the technologists, and the brands for their buzz-worthy material.

However (there always is one) AR will continue to …

The Desktop Metaphor is Dead

The foundations of GUI interfaces (and some NUI) have been built upon the metaphor of the desktop. This existed because they needed to help users understand the "new" interface they were working within. Throughout the years we have supported this metaphor as if it was …

Batch vs. Real-time Processing: How this can apply to agencies

The New Yorker had an article that ran awhile back titled "How David Beats Goliath: When underdogs break the rules." by Malcolm Gladwell. I'm glad to see that the New Yorker has made this piece available for free.

How David Beats Goliath

I'm not planning to get …

Newsweek Redesign - Recreating a Brand by Owning the Content

Newsweek's recent redesign and new take on news is what news sources, particularly those originally based in print, need to do more of. Their progressive stance on news delivery is hopefully setting them up for a long future in the industry. To sum it up they admit that …

Steampunking a mobile device for India

Adaptive Path (Some might say the owners of interaction design) studies the mobile habits of rural users in India. Their finding? That they often times ignore the screen altogether and rely more on the buttons to make / place a call etc.

Seriously as we become more …

Some Thoughts on the Lost Art of Reading Aloud

Some Thoughts on the Lost Art of Reading Aloud By Verlyn Klinkenborg

This editorial in the NYTimes really strikes a chord with me. I fully embrace technology and all its wonders but as we soak everything in are we losing meaning? Verlyn talks of a past time where …

Nixie Technology

So I hit up BDDW for one of their custom nixie clocks.

This cold-cathode tube is made up of an anode with multiple cathodes (0-9 numerals). The tube is filled with neon, mercury and/or argon.

Love these older artifacts; Nikola Tesla here I come.

Worlds Oldest SatNav

I always keep track of the strange maps blog. Often times they discover such odd manifestations of data and information that appear to be tucked away for a long period of time before being rediscovered.

I then noticed the SatNav ' Satellite navigation dating back to …

Just got on the board @ Alzheimer’s Association

Alzheimer's is something that is personal to me. I am very excited to now be a communications board member for the Alzheimer’s Association Illinois Chapter.

http://alz.org/illinois/