Wired reports on Google’s new design language for Android
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 …
A quote from Bill Moggridge’s book Designing Interactions
Artists and designers are trained to use the language of explicit meanings to a rich communicative element over and above direct functional communication. If we only design with the function …
My Presentation on Digital UK from EuroIA 2006
I’ve uploaded my powerpoint slides on the UK’s Digital Television Switchover from EuroIA in Berlin earlier this year onto Slideshare. This years theme focused on ‘Building Our Practice’ and was …
Barry Schwartz and The Paradox of Choice
Mark Hurst has written an informative summary of his conversation with Barry Schwartz, author of The Paradox of Choice, a new book which discusses excessive choice, choice overload, anxiety, and …
The W3C SSML becomes a W3C Recommendation
The W3C Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) has become a W3C Recommendation on 7 September 2004. This standard, aims to enable access to the Web using spoken interaction as an …
Interview with Greg Joswiak on how AirTunes works
Cafedave posted a link to a Macworld article that briefly explains how AirTunes works. It is an interview with Greg Joswiak, Apple’s Vice President of Hardware Product Marketing. There are …
What is Fitts law? and its relation to HCI
Here is a PDF document based on the research by Shumin Zhai, an IBM Research Staff Member, which extends the law developed by Fitts in 1954. Fitts Law is a …
Sony’s new online digital streaming service called Screenblast
The New York Times reports that Sony is launching a new product, aimed at 18 to 24 year-old high-speed broadband users and early adopters, called Screenblast. Screenblast will be an …
Tomato Interactive, Interfaces & Golan Levin
Talking of Tomato Interactive and interactive interfaces, here is Golan Levin’s homepage, http://acg.media.mit.edu/people/golan which contains his thesis work in interactive environments : “Real-Time Systems for Fluid Abstract Expression: Painterly Interfaces …