I thought about how one goes about creating a Rube Goldberg machine – and the more I thought about it, creating Rube Goldberg machines is kind of what I do.
More on that later.
For now, here’s one of the better Rube Goldberg machines, made possible by the creative technologists at Syyn Labs.
Creative agency and data visualization specialist JESS3 put together this onslaught of figures and numbers on what we do online. It does of nice job of showing some staggering figures without harping on their significance. By the time it takes you to register that Asia has nearly three times the number of Internet users as North America, you’re on to the next staggering figure.
If you’re a UX designer or developer and you’re interested in learning about the hows and whys of designing mobile applications – specifically for the iPhone – then this event is for you.
I’m honored to be a member of the panel of experts for the MITX event “Designing iPhone Apps: It’s more than just beautiful coding.” on February 19, starting at 8:00 pm. Mobile experiences present a new level of design challenges, and the panel of folks assembled is second to none:
This promises to kick off a great year of MITX experience design events. I hope to cover the basics, but I’ll also be talking about some of the mobile experience topics: Augmented Reality, Location-Based Services, and maybe even a bit about the iPad.
I’m Looking forward to mingling with the great folks above, – and I hope to see you there.
LaunchCamp, an open one-day conference for early-stage entrepreneurs and “intrapreneurs,” we put together by the good folks at Fresh Ground PR, took place yesterday at the Microsoft NERD center in Cambridge, linked with Social Media Breakfast Boston. I had the pleasure of facilitating one of the break-out forums on product development.
The session was filled with great minds, and as usual I learned at least as much as I imparted. For those of you not at the session, here are the top 5 things we learned:
Bonus: Read Four Steps to the Epiphany. Apparently it’s good. I just ordered it.
I was just thinking this evening about our digital dossier, specifically about what digital archaeologists will be able to dig up hundreds of years from now from fragmented chips found buried in the rubble — and it turns out, The Onion was thinking about the same thing.
I recently wrote an article for iMedia Connection called 4 Online Gimmicks that failed. Some hightlights:
Feel free to leave comments – here is fine, but on the article is best. I’d love to hear your feedback!
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I’ve been chipping away at the stack of New Yorker magazines that have accumulated on my nightstand recently. One of the better articles was John Colapinto’s “Lunch with M.” from the November 23, 2009 edition, in which he tags along with a reviewer for the New York edition of the Michelin Guide. I’ve been thinking about ways we, as designers, can help move away from our culture of consumption and help brands deliver real, sustainable value by focusing on providing service to the consumers. Based on that article, we can learn a lot from the Les Freres Michelin.
Please excuse the wonkiness over the next day or so. The blog is undergoing a pretty significant overhaul and redesign, as I am preparing for my return to the written word.
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Logorama: Best Animated Short Oscar 2010
Francois Alaux, Hervé de Crecy and Ludovic Houplain’s Oscar-winning animated short film, Logorama, is a hard boiled story set in a world where everything is a logo.
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