Design
Dialog: Games + Information Visualization
I promise to update on my group’s progress. We are getting somewhere and it’s exciting! Lots of data visualizations and interesting spatial/temporal interactions. Our advisor thinks we are heading in a good direction and we also received good feedback from our Microsoft advisor as well. I’ll just mention that we are now working on [...]
AOL Ripped Off Yahoo’s Design
This is too funny. Web designers/developers borrow stuff all the time and yes, there are good practices when making some kind of layout, but this goes a little bit far beyond simply using similar elements. AOL blatantly ripped off Yahoo’s homepage. That says a lot about the company and the creative department. Unless the [...]
Nikon Visualization on Universal Scale
This is pretty nuts. I was up late last night looking at information visualizations for some inspiration and came across this great thing Nikon created showing scale from the tiny quark to the mighty universe itself. It’s a pretty profound way of looking at the world. We’re so small, yet so large (wooooo). [...]
More On Multi-Touch Screens
Multi-touch screens are nothing new in the research world. If you don’t know what that is, just think of the new iPhone and using two fingers to “pinch” an image to shrink. Microsoft also has something similar when you manipulate a map with your hand gestures. This example is just more demonstrations of [...]
Health and Wellness: Concepts and Designs
Before I go any further, I’d like to point out that our initial website is up: Pebble In A Pond
wtf does that mean?!
Simply, it is a metaphor of our purpose. A single pebble dropped into a calm pond, causes ripples to spread further and wider. There is a dualistic relationship here: One is that [...]
Health and Wellness: Research and Analysis
Time for an update right? It’s been a week and by the way I’m naming these titles, it’s looking like a software development life cycle (SDCL *shutters*). I was hoping for a more agile approach, but then again, this is school and going through the processes is pretty essential. So from my previous post, [...]
Intel’s Look Into The Future (Video)
Thank you Gizmodo for sharing yet another interesting entry on bad ass technology. You have to admit, the scenarios illustrated in a elegantly stitched storytelling of vignettes is pretty frikkin’ cool. I’ve heard Intel is doing a lot of different kinds of work - yes they do more than just micro chips that [...]
Health and Wellness: The Ambiguous Beginnings
Starting new projects are always fun and mysterious. The open endedness really allows you to explore crazy ideas and really see what the rest of the team is thinking. That kind of insight is really important, because it allowed me (and others) to see more of what drives our own thinking and perspective.
We [...]
Twitter + Google Maps = TwitterVision
Twitter just turned visual and it is awesome! David Troy does a kick ass job of implementing a mash up of the ever so addictive Twitter with the Google Maps API. The result is a real time view of people Twittering around the world! TwitterVision made me realize two things, how global Twitter [...]
Leaving MySpace Reason 287: Fictional Profiles
Remember when you first signed up for some kind of social network, or joined a email list serv and got super excited when that *bing* went off - meaning you received a new message? Well that quickly goes away after you realize that your inbox grows increasingly more complex and your attention becomes a luxury. [...]
