Archive for the User Experience Category
Use Your Illusion I
June 10, 2011 | No Comments | View
Here’s a good one for your Friday afternoon. The folks over at New Scientist posted a cool little exercise and illustration on the mind’s ability to recognize gradual change, pointing out that it can be very difficult, a variety of what’s known as ‘Change Blindness’. We’ve been known to like stuff about the brain and mind [...]
Pac-Man Fever (Slight Return)
April 21, 2011 | No Comments | View
Some things just never get old. Sometimes it’s because they’re timeless, other times it’s because they get rebirthed regularly. In the case of Pac-Man, it just might be both. There is a lot to be said for the original Pac-Man, his ladyfriend, and offspring. And there’s a lot to be said about the latest reincarnation [...]
It’s a beautiful day to make some music
February 18, 2011 | No Comments | View
In our neck of the woods it’s the warmest, sunniest, most beautiful afternoon we’ve seen out of 2011. Music’s in the air, as they say. It’s also in the binary ether and on our blog. Until the whistle blows a little bit later, you can sit right where you are and make sweet-sounding music to [...]
Tags: music
In Defense of Still Not Liking Comic Sans
January 13, 2011 | 2 Comments | View
Last week, the admired and super-smart author and blogger Jonah Lehrer posted The Educational Benefit of Ugly Fonts on his The Frontal Cortex blog via Wired.com, sending designers and other type enthusiasts (read: mostly crusaders against Comic Sans) all a-twitter on the Twitter, with what looks to be slap-solid proof that disfluent type (read: Comic Sans) [...]
Take a Ride on the YouTube Time Machine
January 6, 2011 | No Comments | View
Starting out fresh and refreshed for 2011, we’d like wish you a very happy new year–and decade, for that matter. As it is at every beginning of a new year (or 10-pack of new years), there’s just as much looking back as there is forward. Actually, probably more looking back, since there’s way more to [...]
Deep Thoughts: Neuroscience and Free Will
December 2, 2010 | 2 Comments | View
As much as we love showing and talking about all of the cool design-ey advertising-ey stuff out there, it’s healthy every now and then to go deeper and get a better understanding of what’s what and what makes it what. So let’s make a clink and take in some deeper, richer subject matter. Let’s get into a little conscious vs. unconscious, or even better: conscious with unconscious. Thinking, feeling, deciding, free will, electricity, chemistry, predetermination, the measurable speed of thought: the good stuff.
Tags: neuroscience
Informed, Inspired, & Influenced: Influencers Short Film
November 4, 2010 | Comments Off | View
Andy Warhol. Jay-Z. Both MJs. Steve Jobs. Basquiat. Obama. Shepard Fairey. Ali. The Beatles. Picasso. Paul Newman. Marilyn Monroe. Gandhi. Biggie Smalls. Ramones. Run DMC. Steve McQueen. Einstein. << Those are just a handful of the reasons Influencers may be of the best 13:55 of video you’ll ever watch. Throwing a party with those luminaries [...]
Tags: music > philosophy
How to Fold a Computer Screen
August 19, 2010 | No Comments | View
It’s tricky, but with fresh elbow grease and the right angles, you can fold your screen into a glowing, video-emanating swan. Also true: you shouldn’t believe everything you read online. You can’t really crease your way to that dream swan, of course. Not yet, anyway. “The fold” however, is a bona fide concept borrowed from [...]
Synthia: Fun with Synesthesia
June 24, 2010 | No Comments | View
What’s the coolest cognitive condition going? Why, it’s gotta be synesthesia, the condition in which “one type of stimulation evokes the sensation of another, as when the hearing of a sound produces the visualization of a color.” (thanks for the official talk, Answers.com) We know at least one official synesthete; she sees letters in assigned [...]
Hipstamatic and Swankolab: Two Apps that Get Photographers, and Vice-Versa
May 27, 2010 | No Comments | View
I don’t miss photography class, not even for 1/60 sec. It was the spool. On the cusp of mainstream digital photography, there I was: sitting alone in the dark, ruining what I hoped were art-school masterpieces, just trying to get the effing film on the effing spool. Don’t let the film touch itself! Better not [...]
Tags: apps > iphone