Fauxlaroid. he looks., originally uploaded by Neylano. Just found this incredible iPhone app: Shake It Photo. I love it!!! Longer post coming soon. I've been busy launching this.
Nike+, or how cool is this?? Before I left Seattle, I bought an iPod Nano so I could start using the Nike+ running system. I’ve only done two runs so far (here in DC, tout le monde cours! There are a lot of great running trails….) and I am loving my first experience with wearable
How the iPhone was made...stressfully. From a recent article in Wired Magazine: For those working on the iPhone, the next three months would be the most stressful of their careers. Screaming matches broke out routinely in the hallways. Engineers, frazzled from all-night coding sessions, quit, only to rejoin days later after catching up on their
NPR Soundclips. I love Soundclips, a great segment on NPR. It’s like sound snapshots, which I’ve been thinking about a lot lately. Is there really an audible equivalent to a snapshot? Perhaps, but there won’t be as much identifiable information therein because sound is so much more a product
Designers I'd like to meet. John Maeda is one of them. What a great personality he has and what an engaging speaker! I’m using his book for my course on the Theories and Practice of Interactivity and finally watched this presentation he gave at Ted. Another good one to watch is by David Pogue,
On how engineers and scientists are like guardian angels. “Wasn’t that a miracle? she remarked. Her guardian angels were with her that day.” Those were the words of my sister-in-law a couple of years ago after Will’s older sister walked away unscathed from a rollover collision. Stopping an object’s momentum requires force acting over a period
Dogs as users and humans as iPhones. They say that intelligence can be measured by a species’ ability to use tools to accomplish goals. Alexandra Horowitz, in her book Inside Of A Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, And Know, theorizes how dogs use their favorite tool, a flesh and blood Swiss Army knife if you will – the
Kicking and screaming. Up the stairs. I need to print this damn thing. Need to print it. Sign it. Lick it. Send it. Need to get it off the teuxdeux. I have so much teuxdeux. That’s when you come in, you sad little beast. You promised to work when I need you
Square one. I have no idea what I’m doing. But that’s the fun part. One of the main reasons I took this new teaching gig was because of the opportunity I have to start a design lab. I worked for about 10 years as a visual/interaction designer in industry