Productivity
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 [...]
Tabletop Touch Screen Brainstorming
Now this is useful:
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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 [...]
Support “Start Good” Because It’s Cool
If you don’t already know, the discussion of healthier, cleaner, overall better decisions/actions is a big theme in the past year and will be for a while. There’s a part of me that is growing more aware of the discussions and the ways to really make a difference in at least my own life. [...]
Home Stretch Baby
Gah! One more to GO!!!
It never occurred to me that I would be back at Odegaard Undergraduate Library for hours on end. It’s finals season and the sleepy faces starring into the computer screens with Facebook and MySpace flickring flickering surround me. This will be a memory I will actually miss. In any [...]
Adaptive Path MX 2007 Recap
For those who didn’t go down to San Francisco to attend the MX 2007 Conference, G Petroff has a great summary of the whole event. Check it out if you’re interested in what went on and learn something new about interaction design. Big names like Jesse James Garret, Adam Richardson, Tim Brown(!!), and [...]
The Truth: One Liners, Please Listen
Ain’t it the truth? Seriously…
People ask me, “Ted, what’s the difference between ‘word processing’ and ‘desktop publishing’?” How the hell should I know? These are marketing terms, referring to packages set up for reasons that have nothing to do with conceptual sense or the user’s good.
One Liners
Ways To Help “Keep Up”
Information overload, information anxiety, multitasking - the age of the information highway. There is a lot of information out there that is all so interesting, and yet, we can’t simply keep up. Nor should we try, even if devote our lives in following the latest news and trends, you end up keeping up [...]
Ultimate Hipster PDA Wiki
This is probably the coolest thing ever and I highly recommend it for those who are always in need of writing down a few notes or thoughts they know they will forget. The “Hipster PDA” introduced in 43folders is just a stack of index cards clipped with a binder clip. Its beauty comes [...]
