A video showing a two and a half years old girl’s first encounter with the iPad. Although we can’t prove it was really her first encounter, it is indeed shocking to see the ease with which she figures out some of the interface elements on her own, notably the swipe across the home screen, and [...]
Not to kick a man when he’s down, but Toyota may want to recall its communication design while it’s reworking its pedals. Just four years ago, while conducting competitive audits for Chevrolet at a previous job, Toyota was setting a good example of consistency and quality in its visual communications, with typefaces limited to overarching [...]
I’m geeked (and slightly nervous) about an interview I did with Stephen Watson at Stack Magazines about my recent publishing venture, Remedy Quarterly. The focus is on Kickstarter, an online microfunding site that allows ideas to be pitched and for the people to decide if they are worthy of funding by literally voting with dollars.
Stack, [...]
We like maps. We like to think of them as one of the most basic 2D interfaces, and historically, one of the most important. Mankind has depended on maps of some form for millennia and as the current form of choice, Google Maps just announced beta features with radical potential to enable the world to finally see itself differently.
The main pitfall in the current app is in the interface itself, which, despite following the Apple-issued iPhone application guidelines closely, fails to provide the chief curatorial benefit of the paper’s design with the omission of the mythical Frontpage.
We’re probably a bit too excited—and definitely tardy—to congratulate our friend and collaborator David Gunn on his inclusion in the New Museum’s compendium of contemporary artists, Younger than Jesus. The publication complements the first major international museum exhibition devoted to the generation born around 1980, and their contributions to the current contemporary art discourse. David, [...]
(They keep coming!)
In its slow but certain ascension to overthrow television, and as the de facto medium for viewing videos online, YouTube still lacks many of the subtlety and forethought some of its competition has implemented. Some of of those lapses are simply silly.
When one subscribes to someone’s (or some organization’s) content, they are given a [...]
Originally only US phones had letters associated with numbers, because we hit the need for 7 digit numbers first and mnemonic devices were used (7 digit NNN-NNNN was considered too much to memorize so they did LLL-NNNN). No letters were associated with 1 for technical reasons, nor with 0 (zero), which was reserved still for [...]