Andy Polaine
YouTube remixed by Kutiman
Video loads from YouTube on play — Google's privacy policy applies. There have been a whole load of YouTube musical mash-ups, including the YouTube Orchestra, …
Writing & Thinking
A mix of essays and commentary about design, innovation, technology, society, coaching, personal and leadership development. Since 1996.
Mouth Off
Video loads from YouTube on play — Google's privacy policy applies. Audio interaction. It’s one of the first things I show my students when teaching them …
Kinetic Design
Alongside the surge of interest in gestural interaction, there appears to be a rising fascination with kinetic works too. Some of this comes out of the …
Feel the rabbit's brain
My mate and illustration and animation supremo Steve Scott just finished the last third of this Boing Boing Legends of Exos animation. You can’t miss his …
A Fax is too complicated GoDaddy
I’m just in the process of moving all my domain hosting from GoDaddy because, frankly, it’s like being ambushed in a shopping mall by salespeople …
Holographic Worlds and Gestural Interfaces
The Holodeck remains a fantasy for Trekkies and we’re still not yet jacked into The Matrix (or are we? Oooh.). Guys going to enormous lengths to build …
Beyond the Fold, Print Lives On.
Video loads from YouTube on play — Google's privacy policy applies. Although newspapers are struggling to work out what to do about the decline of the printed …
Apple UI Counting Fail
I was just updating my Airport Express settings and noticed this rare Apple UI fail. Bad number sorting.
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 …
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.