Doctor's Note

A mix of essays and commentary about design, innovation, technology, society, coaching, personal and leadership development. Since 1996.

Do you shutdown or sleep?

(Photo: Paul Watson) What’s the emotional difference between shutting your computer down and putting to sleep? Or turning your phone onto silent mode …

The MultiTouch Cell

MultiTouch have just launched the “world’s first modular multi-touch LCD screen that can be used to create large tables and wall screens.” …

Physical interface design gone wrong

Instructions Originally uploaded by Paul Hagon. It’s a tap. It can’t be that hard, but it is. And the instructions make it even more of an …

Flap to Freedom

Flap to Freedom from Chris O’Shea on Vimeo. Battery hens flap to help battery hens in the Flap to Freedom installation that Chris O’Shea and …

Coffee Infographics

It’s pretty hard to find a decent cup of coffee sometimes here in Germany. It’s one of the things I miss from Australia. And forget any of your …

New Tracker for OpenFrameworks on its way

Seth Sandler, one of the students that snagged a Google Summer of Code place at the Natural User Interface Group, is developing a port of NUI’s …

A List Apart Survey

You might not believe it from the state of Playpen, but I do make websites from time to time. If you do, go take the ALA survey.