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.
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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 [...]

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 [...]

Video: The Inner Life of a Cell

While doing more research on nanomedicine and its social impact, I came across this amazing video visualizing the activities that happen inside our bodies (all the time). It certainly has been a challenge trying to conceptualize the movements on a molecular scale, but this video changed all that. Watching this made sense. I was [...]

Apple iPhone. Thank The UI Gods

Breath. Breath. Breath. Wipe that drool away. Let me start off by just giving you the specs for those in the dark. Quickly it is under Cingular and is quad-band. 5 hours talk/web/video and 16 hours music playback. Ships June.

Tech Specs for those who like numbers and other marketing garbage

More details and toughts after the jump…

15 Tips To Typography

Very cool article on helping you decide on what is an appropriate Type Face for your next essay, poster or web site you are developing. On a side note, sIFR is a great method to allow you to preserve any specialty type face rendered correctly on any browser regardless if the person viewing the site [...]

I Was A GeeXBoX Interaction Design Candidate

This morning I received an email from Celeste Lyn Paul, an incredibly awesome (from what I Googled) usability/interaction designer about the GeeXBoX project sponsored by the Open Usability: Season of Usability 2007 effort. They were inquiring whether I was able to commit 10-15 hours a week on the project as a requirement for consideration. [...]

New Years 2007 & Project 365 Resolution

Every blog and their mom seems to be looking back on 2006. It definitely has been a busy year with lots of different things going on. I say this every year, but each year seems to get better and better. Let’s see if I can break down my own experience for you [...]

Free Culture: Presentation Voice Matters

As I’m just sitting here at work, avoiding the crazy wind storm that is causing anger veins to explode, I watched listened to this presentation on Free Culture.  Powerful. Compeling.
Firstly, I came across this presentation after reading Presentation Zen, and their recent article on Slideshare. Now, I’ve been through many PowerPoint presentations and downloaded countless [...]

New Job At The Center for Environmental Visualization

My internship at Microsoft is nearing an end, which I will write more about later. So that meant I needed to find a new job.  Where to begin right? My previous vision included working at Joey’s as a bar back, or bar end making some quick and easy money.  Working in a place like that also meant I could meet fun [...]