Google has announced new or improved APIs at I/O 2011: Prediction – predicting new results from historic data, Fusion Tables – sharing and visualizing data online, and Books – accessing …
Innovating in the real world from IDEO’s Diego Rodriguez
Principles for innovating in the real world according to IDEO’s Diego Rodriguez should start with foundational approaches designed to help you make innovations happen. http://thenextweb.com/dd/2011/05/08/21-principles-for-innovating-in-the-real-world-from-ideos-diego-rodriguez Experience the world instead of …
BBC Radio 4’s Archive on 4 – The Sound of Sport
When we think of the sound of sport on TV or radio, it’s generally commentary. But what’s around the commentary? Broadcast sport would be nothing without the crowds, the kicks, the …
A list of 22 free Visualization Tools
ComputerWorld has featured a really useful list of 22 free visualisation tools http://www.computerworld.com The notable ones are: Visual.ly – a new tool to create data visualisations (blogs.journalism.co.uk) Last.fm visualisation (michele.me)
Oliver O’Brien & Pablo Mateos’ Census Profiler
While reading Daniel J Lewis’ blog on Geography and Info Visualisation (which is superb by the way), I came across this excellent census data and map visualisation by Oliver O’Brien …
A BBC report in 1967 predicting the future world of Home Computing
From the BBC Archive ‘Tomorrow’s World’ collection: Introducing the home computer terminal (1967) Derek Cooper reports on Europe’s first home computer terminal. Installed into the home of industrial consultant Rex …
Jonathan Brill’s keynote on the Future of Mobile UX
Design for Mobile: Future of Mobile UX Opening keynote at the Design for Mobile conference in Chicago IL,. Jonathan Brill discussed several future scenarios for mobile user experience and their …
TED video of Steven Johnson: Where good ideas come from
People often credit their ideas to individual “Eureka!” moments. But Steven Johnson shows how history tells a different story. His fascinating tour takes us from the “liquid networks” of London’s …
IDEO’s vision on the Future of Books
IDEO have created a nice concept video on their visions for the future of the book. Meet Alice and Nelson – different experiences linking diverse discussions, connected readers, multiple stories and community building around books.
Mozilla Firefox 4 Beta UI Heatmap
The Mozilla Firefox 4 Beta team & community have published some findings on the use of the UI for the new Firefox 4 Beta with a heatmap of the UI. …
Google Instant & Scribe
Google today launched: Google Instant Google Scribe (related blog)
ACM Ubiquity paper (2005) on the challenges of Invisible Computing
Reflections on Challenges to the Goal of Invisible Computing by Arun Kumar Tripathi Department of Philosophy of Technololgy – Institute for Philosophy Dresden University of Technology – Germany Technology becomes …
Designing for Openness & for Loss of control
Tim Leberecht has written an insightful article on the design for openness, ideation and the design for the loss of Control. Openness is no longer just a nice stunt but …
Designing Alarms & Alerts on Johnny Holland
Johnny Holland have written another insightful article, this time on the Design of Alarms & Alerts. The article covers some fundamental interaction design principles such as matching criticality to obtrusiveness, …
6 Digital Trends to Watch
The presentation by Steve Rubel ( Director of Insights) & David Armano ( SVP Digital ) on 6 digital trends to watch. Six Digital Trends To Watch by Steve Rubel and David Armano View …