Nice presentation by Stephanie Rieger
Month: February 2012
Buttons are a Hack: The New Rules of Designing for Touch
“Fingers and thumbs turn design conventions on their head. Touchscreen interfaces create ergonomic, contextual, and even emotional demands that are unfamiliar to desktop designers. Find out why our beloved desktop windows, buttons, and widgets are weak replacements for manipulating content directly, and learn practical principles for designing mobile interfaces that are both more fun and more intuitive. Along the way, discover why buttons are a hack, how to develop your gesture vocabulary, and why toys and toddlers provide eye-opening lessons in this new style of design.” – Josh Clark
46 Seconds on Life from Steve Jobs
The world as Steve Jobs saw it:
When you grow up you tend to get told the world is the way it is and you’re life is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into the walls too much. Try to have a nice family, have fun, save a little money.
That’s a very limited life. Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.
Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again.
Starbucks Continues Augmented Reality Experiments For Valentine’s Day
Starbucks keep experimenting on Augmented reality in various ways. If you’ve visited Starbucks lately, you may have noticed some heart-adorned cups designed to celebrate Valentine’s Day. These are part of a mobile augmented reality program. Just watch the above video to know how you can play with it.
A Day Made of Glass 2: Expanded Corning Vision
The story behind Corning’s Vision of “A Day Made of Glass 2”.
See the above video, how Corning’s highly engineered glass, with companion technologies, will help shape our world.