January 2010
36 posts
Howling at the Moon: The Poetics of Amateur... →
Design criticism is, by necessity, more self-aware of its proximity to the marketplace than are other critical genres like art or literature. It must deal explicitly with the mechanics of making, retail, and distribution — the greasy wheels of commerce — and that’s why the primary location of today’s design criticism at the heart of the biggest online marketplace, Amazon.com makes so much...
Ted’s “short, nerdy exposé on the iPad”
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To my tech friends: (with and without a capital ‘T’). I was struck today watching the announcement of the iPad, that Apple is fulfilling the rather specific prediction of tangible/ubiquitous computing forefathers Hiroshi Ishii and Mark Weiser of MIT.
In his Sept. 1991 paper titled “The Computer for the 21st Century”, Mark Weiser identifies the following characteristics of future...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-24) →
Black Moth Super Rainbow (66)
TV on the Radio (45)
Man Man (40)
Arctic Monkeys (37)
Childish Gambino (33)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Head-up display: factors →
There are several factors that engineers must consider when designing a HUD:
field of vision — Since a person’s eyes are at two different points, they see two different images. To prevent a person’s eyes from having to change focus between the outside world and the display of the HUD, the display is “Collimated” (focused at infinity). In automobiles the display is generally...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-17) →
Childish Gambino (50)
TV on the Radio (43)
Peter Bjorn and John (20)
Radiohead (20)
The Knux (20)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Touch targets on the iPhone →
There are a lot of opinions going around about the Nexus One. This list touches upon something that I think the Apple has been really smart about:
The touch experience in general is great, but less so with the four touch buttons at the bottom of the display. I’ve found that the touch sensors only respond when touching the top half of these buttons. It’s as if the sensors aren’t quite big...
“You cannot not communicate. Every behaviour is a kind of communication. Because...”
– Paul Watzlawick’s First Axiom of Communication, via 52 Weeks of UX, a tumblog you should follow.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-10) →
Thievery Corporation (38)
Bob Marley (16)
TV on the Radio (14)
Röyksopp (11)
mashrou3 leila (10)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“Hacking is the interference in, or corruption of, the authorship of designers...”
– You know more than you think you do: design as resourcefulness and self-reliance. - Core77
DIY →
Neven’s got an interesting take on what Apple might do with their upcoming iTabletThingie:
Let’s say you’ve written a short story. (You’re still working on your first novel; courage!) As a piece of entertainment and education, it’ll enrich about twenty minutes of someone’s life. That’s worth 99c in my book. You write this in Pages, perhaps using the...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-3) →
Ratatat (59)
Gorillaz (34)
Radiohead (26)
RJD2 (25)
mashrou3 leila (22)
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Rands In Repose : Vegas Archives →
Good effing read. Vegas here I come.
“A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple...”
– Gall’s law, referenced by Peter Keane (via factoryjoe)
