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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Facebook Syncing

Since my blog is linked to Facebook, I thought you guys might find this interesting. If you have a Mac, then you can use this bit of software to download all your contacts from your Facebook account and store them in your Address Book. Pretty neat huh? This is really cool for [...]

Designers Need to Design More

Adaptive Path is one of the companies you want to work for. I’ve frequented their website many times in the past looking at what they are up to and the kind of work they do for inspiration. The very idea of Interaction Designer took root (for me) from this company. Now they are saying [...]

ZenZui: Microsoft’s Zoom-Based Mobile UI

In the far eastern lands of Redmond comes a new start up called ZenZui. It’s for your mobile phone and it’s a different way of accessing your information and media from content providers. Developers also have have a way to build applications to reach out to the public. For what? It could be games, [...]