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Come discuss AR with me @ York Mobile Media Lab

Date: Monday Dec 7, 2009 Time: 3:00-5:00 pm Where: Mobile Media Lab, York University Technology Enhanced Learning Building 88 the Pond Road, Room Tel 2001 Link: Thomas Purves talk at Mobile Media Lab Who knew that since I gave my first Augmented Reality talk back in April of this year that AR would become such [...]

Presentation: Design for an Augment Reality world

For posterity here is the slideshare version of my Augmented Reality talk, which I presented for the first time at Refresh Events in Toronto. As a first cut, this presentation represented more of a shotgun scattershot rather than a linearly coherent narrative of the various thoughts on this topic currently spinning in my head my [...]

How the mobile web and “augmented reality” changes retail forever

At South by southwest interactive this week (SXSW) a huge theme was “augmented reality” the idea of, Amazon-app style, pointing your phone at any product to get more information -or a better price- online. We’re getting to a world where holding a mobile device means all of the potential knowledge and intelligence of the cloud [...]

Design neutrality and why Google Chrome rocks

Last week, I gave Microsoft’s new browser a shake, now it’s time to look at the competition. There is a lot else to like about Google’s new browser. But this, this is my favorite feature: Why does (almost) every product google touches, feel so refreshingly natural to use? A significant part of their competitive advantage [...]

“Some people tell me it is a beautiful shape, but I cannot tell this because I am an engineer.” – Gábor Domokos

Ha, a quote that seems to explain a lot about this world? 1. How many the things that surround us may work, but are not beautiful. 2. And the corollary, why some things that are beautiful don’t seem to work? file under: arguments for interdisciplinary design. Quote overheard on a quirks and quarks podcast. a [...]

Linklove for InterAccess

Hey cool, InterAccess has a great blog. With lots of awesome… stuff. Electro techno Art robot stuff. If you didn’t know, Interaccess is known to reputable sources as the best place in Toronto to build a robot.

The Robotification of Usability Design

1998-2000 Human to web interaction, Web Usability, Human factors. The great bubble of Web-enabling networked databases and applications – like Online Banking, Amazon.com, lets sell pet food online etc. (eBay never heard of usability) 2001-2005 Website to robot interaction design, the golden age of Search Engine Optimization 2004-2006 Human to Human and social web interaction, [...]

Negative Space in Product Design – Value from things that things don’t do.

I figure the single sound that must bring the most collective happiness to people the world over is exactly the sound your alarm clock doesn’t make as soon as you hit the snooze button. I’ve been trying to think up, ever since my alarm came back on this morning, some other examples of this principle [...]

The Flavour of Cities – My deck from OpenCities

UPDATE: oh and my speaker notes are here on the slideshare page which might explain things a *little* more clearly. A great commentary by Edward on the discussion that followed (thanks!): “At the final session, insulated by a Creemore, it was interesting to think of as flavour as taste: in the look and feel and [...]

Open thoughts for open cities

..Because gifted children are able to consider the possibilities of how things might be, they tend to be idealists. However, they are simultaneously able to see that the world is falling short of how it might be. Because they are intense, gifted children feel keenly the disappointment and frustration which occurs when ideals are not [...]

Because media has a flavour

These are two exterior walls. They serve (roughly) the same physical purpose. They live across the street. 52nd street if I remember. B) is the north side of the brand new redesign of the the NYC MoMA A) is just another building of another century facing it across the street. Right across the street. They [...]

 

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