Andy Polaine
Writing is Design
“Verbalizing design is another act of design. I realised this while writing this book,” writes Kenya Hara in the preface to his book, Designing …
Writing & Thinking
A mix of essays and commentary about design, innovation, technology, society, coaching, personal and leadership development. Since 1996.
Service Means Survival
(Photo credit: dos2kx) Lauren posted a linke to BusinessWeek’s report, When Service Means Survival. The basic thrust is that in a tight economic …
Playful
Lovely work by Pablo Alfieri whose portfolio site is dubbed Playful – a name I can thoroughly relate to (and was thinking of using myself - bah!). Many of his …
Digital Analog Clock
I like this digital analog clock from Alvin Aronson. Each segment slowly pushes forward or recedes back as the minute changes, which creates a analog …
John Cleese on Creativity
I hate being interrupted when I’m in the midst of writing a… sorry… hang on… Okay, I’m back. Now, what was I saying? Whatever, …
Windows UI is so broken
Windows UI is so broken. Look at the hoops developers have to jump through to get people to just install a plug-in.
Amazon Ass
Unfortunate but amusing combination of the subject line and Mail.app shortening the sender name from Amazon Associates.
The future, like the past only more expensive
One of the aspects of the job of interaction design and strategy research is being asked the impossible task of predicting the future. It is a fool’s …
One free (playful) interaction
Great collection of “free interactions” and insightful commentary from Chris Noessel on the Cooper blog. Basically these are little interactive …
Sir Ken Robinson talk at the RSA
The RSA have now added a link to download Sir Ken Robinson’s talk that he gave there last week called ‘The Element’ – “the point at …
Your computer will restart several times during installation
Why? Surely once is enough, if at all?
Swearing on Twitter
Most people who know me in real life know that I have a tendency to swear too easily and too much. They are, of course, twats. Actually that last outburst is a …
New Clothes
If you are a regular reader (yes, you’re the one), you’ll notice that Playpen has had a spruce up with a new theme. If you’re thinking it …
Interview and profile of Dan Saffer
Core77 have just posted an interview and profile I wrote on Dan Saffer and hhis new book, Designing Gestural Interfaces. Dan talks about his vision for future …
Amazon Reviews
Oh the irony. Unfortunately you can’t post links on Amazon.com’s reviews, which is probably a good thing so that it doesn’t become …