Category: Links

“a web service that allows you to share snippets of information from the minutiae of daily life in the form of simple statistical graphs” Hmmm…

The upcoming This happened in LDN looks great. There’s a guy who built a real-life UFO for crying out loud! I will be there. What about you?

I had the pleasure of attending Tom’s talk at NLGD. Now his slides and extensive notes are online. Required reading for any game designer trying to make sense of the social web.

Installation that simulates a drop falling in water. Looks beautiful, curious to know how interactive it is. Via Chris.

Founds this hidden in a cryptic blog post by Matt Webb. Interesting view on how design has changed over the course of human history and what design ‘today’ (written 2005) is or should be like: “Designing is in itself the creation of abstract machines, which draw complex diagrams, that cut across heterogeneous segments. […] The design product is often not embedded in a single physical object. But rather is an interconnection between many objects and people and their environment.”

This has been making the rounds lately. A Japanese designer has mocked up a context-aware device from the near future. I like the suggestive quality of these images. He succeeds in communicating a complicated concept in a very concise way. Many different kinds of applications not explicitly mentioned can be effortlessly imagined based on this.

“Everyone seems to be an experience manager these days, but we should be proud of what we do. If you’re a UI designer, say you’re a UI designer. Or an interaction designer…” Heathcote rants about the misuse of the term UX. Couldn’t agree more.

“…a tiny camera gathers light and shape data, before sending it to a computer that processes it and uses hundreds of tiny electric motors to shift the wood blocks into the image in front of the device…” Seen this a few times, now finally bookmarking it.

Wordle.net is put to some unlikely use – here the occurrence of words on both Obama and McCain’s blog is visualized. “Obama” is the most-used word on McCain’s blog, a surprising find for me. Next, I’d like to see these two clouds compared.

“The race starts, you flap your arms and your chicken does the same, walking down the runway to the freedom beyond the chain fence. The first person to get their battery hen to freedom is the winner.” A slightly silly but fun project by Chris O’Shea.

“Constant setting is a simple website that displays in real time, any sunset images taken and posted to Flickr as creative commons that correspond to the cities where the sun is setting at the moment.”

Review of a curious little physics game wherein you build vehicles with weird counterintuitive components…

A grainy photo from the near future.

Oh dear. Peggle is coming to the DS. Via Niels.

“An archive of colour gradients”.

Tom Carden talks about his work on the MySociety travel-time maps, which I really like.

A wonderful presentation from 2004 by Ludicorp, outlining their vision of facilitating play using platforms, or contexts for relationship-based computing. Chock-full of good stuff still very relevant today.

Jones on embodied interactions in science fiction.

Entry in a series of interviews Matt did during Reboot 10, asking people about what design means to them This one with Julian is probably my favorite so far.