Hiatus
As if it weren’t evident, this thing is on a bit of a hiatus. To be continued.
Twitter Digest for Week Ending 2011-07-24
- I rather miss the colors in OS X #lion #
- RT @odannyboy: Apple #Lion is kind of freaking me out a little bit. Some radical changes. Muscle memory all screwed up. No visible scrol … #
- RT @benhammersley: Oh, Lion. Every time I touch the touchpad, my brain cries a little bit. #
Twitter Digest for Week Ending 2011-07-17
- RT @gwire: Man, I've been reading news for years without collecting points and badges for it. What a chump. http://bit.ly/mRdzpo #
- RT @JPBarlow: It's "far too dangerous to do business" in the US because of the risk of software patent lawsuits. http://t.co/k9rZ4ms #
- Look what's in the mail today: #svkcomic http://t.co/urF34ts #
- RT @mkruzeniski: Nice. The original sketch for Twitter by Jack Dorsey http://t.co/CbuPBby via @udanium #
VOID: Conceptual Processing Magazine
VOID is a conceptional processing magazine for the iPad. It is aimed to bring coding closer to designers, with focus on enhanced user integration and personalization with a strong visual approach.
The magazine app features sections where the reader is able to explore projects, learn about other processing artists, manipulate source code live inside the app and immediately see the changes highlighted in the code.
Users can save their modified versions of a sketch, screenshots or short videos to a custom dropbox folder that is linked to the app. It is also possible to share this data via facebook, twitter and email.
Digital Rube Goldberg Processor
Pretenders: Why mobile Web apps should stop trying to act like native apps, succinctly summarized:
When developers follow the conventions of a native app (the “look”), they set performance expectations (the “feel”) in the user’s mind. When there is a mis-match between the two, right look / wrong feel, users will be frustrated.
A fanboy with a strange device – Matt Edgar on SVK (which i still haven’t gotten around to reading) and a Doctor Who adventure i’m not familiar with:
I think there’s a lesson here for a lot of transmedia, augmented reality, and other buzzword-based story-telling forms: it’s not what you do with the technology, it’s what you leave to the imagination.
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore
A beautiful iPad children’s book by an ex-Pixar designer:
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore iPad App Trailer from Moonbot Studios on Vimeo.
Persona E-Mail Concept
More info at the project website. via.
I really don’t mean to be snarky or anything, but around the 1:00 mark, when they introduce conversation view, i was heavily reminded of Google Wave. If Wave had looked this good and easy, it might just have worked…
As Lukas Mathis points out, the current design also doesn’t leave much room for automated e-mail messages (confirmations, mailing lists, …), which seems like a grave oversight for a mail client.
Great write-up from FOO Camp 2011:
[Adam Curtis’ film All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace] constructs a critique of cybernetics. He argues that this emphasis on building ever-more accurate models of the world — and, especially, automating their results through the supposedly objective computer — represses any idea of individual agency to change the system while simultaneously causing us to project a false agency onto the system itself. In other words, Curtis focuses on cybernetics’ conservative political repercussions. In his account, this faith in the technologically augmented system model becomes a reason to defend the status quo.
