The Good Days
The good days are simple. A greasy lunch. A bad haircut. Sitting at a friend’s house in the afternoon with the windows open, sipping gin, working, gossiping. Rocking out to Joan Jett in the living room at 1 am.
Simplicity
The NY Times has a nice article on the Simplicity Design Studio held by John Maeda, Cynthia Breazeal, Chris Csikszentmihályi, and Hiroshi Ishii at the Media Lab. From the Simplicty Design Studio website. We are working to establish an intellectual framework around the topic of SIMPLICITY by collaborating with some of the world’s top graphic [...]
The Horror
The Horror: Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen referring to Avil Lavigne as modern punk rock. There is just so much wrong with this…..
The Artisanal
Recently, I’ve been intrigued by the idea of the artisanal. It started several months when ago a friend returned from New York with a collection of artisanal cheeses. He had a small party for the cheese and us. At the party we were introduced to each cheese, where it was from, what is was made [...]
Where is Chad? Who is Carl?
Chad is gone. I get to use the blog until then. It’s my first such experience. I’m trying to decide if I really want to commit to one, so Chad suggested I try his out. (…reminds me of an episode from The Love Boat. Or maybe one of those scary episodes of Fantasy Island.) Anyway, [...]
brightly colored carl
I’m racing off to the airport now for New Zealand. For the next two weeks, Carl DiSalvo will be guestblogging. He’s a PhD student in interaction design at CMU. Here’s his bio, but hopefully he’ll introduce himself as well. Carl is brilliant and will make me look like the slouch that I am. Treat him [...]
And now for my next trick…
Turned in the final thesis documentation on Friday, graduated yesterday, packed up today, leaving tomorrow, flying to New Zealand for two weeks on Wednesday, going to my girlfriend’s graduation in Boston after that, then headed west, hopefully to a job.
UbiComp Videos
Quite an extensive list of videos that demonstrate ubiquitous computing interfaces – both the crazy stuff from sci-fi movies as well as UX classics like Apple’s Knowledge Navigator and Sun’s Starfire project. The range of concepts is broad enough that they probably should have included the mother of all demos, if only as a tribute. [...]