Category Archives: interactive

UI Realism.

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UI Realism.
I was a huge fan of Marvel Comics growing up, and love Scott McCloud’s books on comic art’s ability to communicate across languages via symbology, etc.  Found an article recently by Lukas Mathis of ignorethecode.net that applies cartoon principles to User Interface (UI) design.  Not quite ‘less is more’, but rather ‘just enough is correct’ [...]

Puck the System.

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Puck the System.
This is pretty rad – a RFID wireless ‘puck’ that can be used as a remote to interact w. sensors to control whatever parameters you’ve got set up – in this case, mood lighting…

Cool AR Biz Card.

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Cool AR Biz Card.
This is pretty neat – nice application of augmented reality in a business card context. AR Business Card from James Alliban on Vimeo.

Choose Your Own Visualization.

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Choose Your Own Visualization.
Children of the 80s may remember those awesome ‘Choose Your Own Adventure‘ books, in which the reader determines the storyline by choosing to follow plot path options.  This site features some incredible Flash visualizations of the plot possibilities as motion animations.  Select a Title, and then hit the ‘Play’ button to watch the magic.

Social Media Ghettos.

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Social Media Ghettos.
I’ve noted before that the vast, competing social networking sites seem to be aligning to members based on socio-economic status. The Globe And Mail’s Lisan Jutras continues the topic: Last year, Facebook overtook MySpace in numbers of members. If you are like me, you made the switch because information was better organized on Facebook, and [...]

Come On, Apple.

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Come On, Apple.
I saw this described as passive aggressive warfare this morning.  Adobe’s taking the gloves off re: Apple’s mobile Flash support (or lack thereof).  Seems they’re taking a lead from the ‘Death to IE6′ shame campaign also being waged very publicly.

GeoCities No More.

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GeoCities No More.
Never liked GeoCities much, but it did attract a pretty wide audience back in the day.  Yahoo shut it down today, after more than 10 years of crappy websites.  Good article in today’s LA Times.

Refill 2.0

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Refill 2.0
Allan at Vector Living sent me this illustration, figuring I’d appreciate it (being an absolute caffeine junkie). Love it.

Keywords Ain’t All That.

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The long-touted SEO Keyword is officially useless. From the Google Webmaster Central Blog, “Google does not use the keywords meta tag in page ranking.” Descriptions and relevant content, on the other hand – what a concept!

Apple Tablet Rumor 543.

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Mmmm, delicious: According to rumors, Apple is in the final stages of developing the Apple wet dream, a 10-inch tablet allegedly running the iPhone OS…