Just A Thought on Business Culture and Design

Mobile handset companies are trying to position themselves with “iPhone killers” but it’s hard for me to take them seriously. Why?
Because they are a cycle or two behind. While they are catching up with features and throwing in an extra bit or two (see 3G and GPS), companies like Nokia and Apple are already testing [...]

Apple Announces New iPods, Commercializing Touch Interfaces

Okay, so the new iPods are out, and they are hot (minus the nano, sorry). Wireless iTunes. Ringtones. 8GB iPhones get a $200 price cut. Starbucks partnership. So while everyone is getting their knickers in a bunch for whatever reason, this announcement brings many compelling questions to mind:
Apple is leveraging the huge iPod user base [...]

Greetings From Germany!

Hello dear friends, I am writing to you from Munich Germany.  It’s day 8 now and it has been a complete blast so far.  The culture here is wonderful. There’s so much about Europe in general that makes me happy. More specifically, everything is a lot more cleaner and effiencient here. The train system makes [...]

Fun With The iPhone

I’ll keep this brief since you can find a lot of this information on the interweb. It’s all over the place, trust me.

Anyways, so I got off work a little early to check out the University Village Apple store to check out the crowd during the unveiling of the most highly anticipated/marketing/sought-after/lusted/flamed/beautifully-built consumer device known [...]

Life After Graduation

Three weeks have gone by quickly and already so much as happened. Even more exciting are the things that will be coming up. More to come on that later.
Since graduting from the wonderful University of Washington, everything seemed to just cruise along. I’ve moved back home over on the east side and it [...]

A Little Portfolio Demonstration

Created with Paul’s flickrSLiDR.
A lot of people don’t know exactly what I do. What is Informatics? What is Interaction Design? You’re artsy fartsy (wrong, but I do love art, and especially great design). So on and so forth. Well it occurred to me that while I have spent my long summer hours [...]

iPhone Technology Visualized

It’s not often that you find informtion about how technology really works with uber nerdy device, or how it all seamlessly works together, in a simple way without all the text. Well I just stumbled upon Apple’s iPhone site again after reading about their new announcement on battery life and their move to glass from [...]

Health and Wellness: Sketches and Mock Ups

So our group decided to go with the shopping idea. Instead of having the user tote a list around, the list would be generated and remembered through a USB keychain. This keychain would be able to store, transact and record information the person’s consumption and purchasing habits. As a result, we can solicit [...]

Tabletop Touch Screen Brainstorming

Now this is useful:

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20 Reasons Why Western Mobiles Suck

Actually it doesn’t per se, but that could be a subjective observation. Anyhoo, I thought this was hilarious:

1. mobile wallet
2. MANGA on mobile
3. mobile check-in at airports
4. mobile keys for door
5. mobile employee badges
6. mobile cinema tickets
7. mobile transport passes
8. fingerprint authentication
9. face recognition/authentication
10. mobile discount/promotion [...]