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20. November 2009 • 23h

Tape 138: Zeit-der-Unschuld-Coverclash

20. November 2009 • 10h

2009 - the year the browser finally took over?

Check the signals!

1. Webkit - Standing on the shoulders of a giant

Webkit’s taking web technologies to new limits
Webkit’s empowering Mobile Safari, Android Browser, Chrome, Titanium, Adobe Air etc.
Also pushing Firefox to a new level

2. New platforms, devices and API’s for new interactions

3. OpenSource Web Frameworks - The fuel of innovation

JQuery, JQuery UI, JQtouch
Protovis
…

Tagged with future interface-design thoughts

20. November 2009 • 0h

adv-rdrb:

Else Mobile (The Time Has Come)

Created for Else Mobile Phones as half viral campaign, half official website content and commissioned by The Visionaire Group in LA. ‘The Time Has Come’ acts as an intro for the new mobile device. The entire campaign was shot on location in downtown LA and California.

— (via Vimeo)

“Humans and data become closer. Technology was supposed to make our lives easier. Instead our live grow more complicated…”

“The Else UI can be operated by one hand in the one for the terminal of the overall touch panel. For instance, it can be operated to hold a strap. The one that manner of operation traces concentric circle menu displayed as shown in pie chart.” (via wirelesswatch.jp)

Reblogged from adv • Tagged with interface-design mobile future

17. November 2009 • 16h

“Ride is a brand new skateboard shaped wireless video game controller that players stand on to interact with the game. Features include motion sensing technology, where the board can be rotated, tilted and lifted to pull off tricks, smarts sensors for speed and a gritty surface like on a real skateboard.” (via designboom)

Check this video for a demo and this video for instructions.

Tagged with experience-design fun gaming interaction skateboarding

16. November 2009 • 16h

“You are one third as productive in open-plan offices as in quiet rooms. And I have a tip for you. If you have to work in spaces like that, carry headphones with you, with a soothing sound like birdsong. Put them on and your productivity goes back up to triple what it would be.”

– Julian Treasure in his TedTalk: The 4 ways sound affects us

Tagged with work-well productivity sound sound-design

16. November 2009 • 16h

“Scrivener is a word processor created specifically for writers of long texts such as novels and research papers. (via Stevenbjohnson).”

Tagged with interface-design writing

15. November 2009 • 13h

Photos from “Landscape of oil” by Edward Burtinsky

“… and I feel that all of us need to now begin to really take the task of using our talents, our ways of thinking, to begin to deal with what I think is probably one of the most challenging issues of our time, how to deal with our energy crisis.

And I would like to say that, on the other side of it, 30, 40 years from now, the children that I have, I can look at them and say, ‘We did everything we possibly, humanly could do, to begin to mitigate this, what I feel is one of the most important and critical moments in our time’… “

(see Edward’s Ted Talk )

Tagged with future oil green energy energy

15. November 2009 • 10h

The litl - A startup from boston delivers a fresh netbook design approach.

It runs a custom (Gnome based) Linux with a slick interface shaped by Pentagram. Basically all things on the litl happen in the browser and live cloud.

I really like its elegant simplicity. It takes a lot of work, nerves and guts to deliver such a simple interface.

(via kottke)

Tagged with innovation product web cloud-computing interaction-design