I managed to squeeze in a visit to the HKU KMT faculty’s project market in Hilversum on thursday last week. It’s an annual presentation of work done for external clients by graduate students. I coached one of those projects, which was done for the Nokia Research Center. They did a good job of presenting a [...]
Cultuur investeert in innovatie voor de samenleving – Virtueel Platform (Dutch) Het meest frappante aan dit bericht over een verzameling inititiatieven gericht op het [...]
Rosenfeld Media – Playful Design Book Site A book about "creating game experiences in everyday interfaces". Something to keep an eye on. [...]
I’m writing this in the morning on a train from Utrecht to Amsterdam. I’ll be making this trip more often the coming weeks, since I signed a contract with Layar on tuesday. I’ll be reinforcing their UX team, doing interaction design on existing and new parts of their service. As is often the case with [...]
YouTube – Paper Cakes Gameplay Trailer A puzzle game designed by HKU and USC students, nominated for an IGF. The project's secret origin is [...]
Pasta&Vinegar » Blog Archive » Material Beliefs: scientific research+design combinations Since I'm in the planning stages of a research project where [...]
Augmented Reality Roundup on Pixelsumo It's easy to criticise AR; there are a lot of bad, gimmicky applications out there. It's harder to talk [...]
In a recent post on the Edge blog – which, if you consider yourself a games designer, you absolutely must read – Matt Jones asks:
“Why should pocket calculators be put on a pedestal, and not Peggle?”
He writes about the need for games to be appreciated and critiqued as design objects. He points out [...]
Wattcher The Dutch Wattson, with industrial design by Marcel Wanders. I ordered one, to see if a device like this actually makes a difference [...]
We (Marinka, Evert and I) wrapped up the Move It project on friday with great success. I spent the day in a theater watching 24 concept videos of new street sports. The one that scored the highest was also my favorite; a team sport that involves bouncing a ball off the sides of an alley, [...]
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