Even though technology evolved at a crazy pace the last 100 years, the humble button has stayed at the center of it all. What is its past, its future? Why is it important? What does it say about the interaction between humans and technology? Pictures, stories, revelations, maybe movies.
@SXSW’10 by Bill DeRouchey, Ziba Design
I wanted to write down my thoughts upon reading the Smashing Magazine article on the gradual disappearance of Flash on the web. Along with the recent discussions rising from Apple’s moves on clearing Flash from the face of the earth, web and iDevices, it stimulated many of us to think if HTML5 can really replace Flash.
Without drilling into technical details, I think holistically:
Moritz Stefaner is a visualization artist, holding a B.Sc. in Cognitive Science and an M.A. in Interface Design. Currently, he is employed as a research assistant at FH Potsdam on the MACE project and work as a freelance information visualizer. His slides on data visualization are an amazing summary for where we are right now, what trends are out there, and how cool working with visualization is.
Eigenfactor is a non-commercial academic research project by the Bergstrom lab in the Department of Biology at the University of Washington. The goal is to map the structure of science. Together, we are developing different visualizations based on citation patterns between scientific journals.
taken from his website.
Nick Finck and Raina Van Cleave’s presentation slides from the SXSWi talk are up. Here’s a summary:
User experiences are your everyday experiences—anything from operating a car, to making a pot of coffee, to ordering a pair of shoes online. User experience is the result of your interactions with a product or service, specifically how it’s delivered and its related artifacts according to the design.
In this presentation Nick Finck and Raina Van Cleave will explore the ten characteristics of a great user experience. They will cover all aspects of user experience design such as user research, information architecture, information design, technical writing, interaction design, visual design, brand identity design, accessibly, usability and web analytics. Nick and Raina will also explain how following the ten commandments can boost your web sites, web app, or mobile app’s ease of use, appeal, conversion rates, and more. Continue reading…
Finally this year, I was able to attend a SXSW which I was interested in since I heard about it the first time. And against all the negative comments in the blogosphere (eg. TechCrunch), I really enjoyed it! I attended more than 20 panels on interactive, met many many people, and even enjoyed a quick chat with Bruce Sterling on OpenProcessing (he blogged about it couple of times, this time he even took a photo of me). I will post my thoughts on the panels separately, but here is what I think and liked in general. Continue reading…
Oh Entourage for Mac, are you supposed to be the perfect design disaster of the computer world?
Let me click “Yes” and see what’s going on..
Recently, I was interviewed on OpenProcessing, its origins, collaboration with Rhizome on the Tiny Sketch competition and it’s future. Below is a first couple of paragraphs; read the full article on Rhizome’s site:
Interview with Sinan Ascioglu:
OpenProcessing ArchitectBy Tim Stutts on Friday, February 26th, 2010 at 1:00 pm.
“Driving through Iceland” sketch by dotlassie. Winner of Rhizome’s Tiny Sketch Competition.
OpenProcessing.org is a site that has built a community around sharing visual coding examples created in Processing. As user number 36, I had the unique privilege of watching the idea take shape, while in a thesis group with Sinan at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program. During it’s first two years of activity, the site has grown to host thousands of user-generated sketches and subsequent conversations between artists / programmers, teachers, and students from around the world. Sinan and I escaped the snow recently at a café outside Washington Square Park to discuss OpenProcessing’s origins, Rhizome’s collaboration with OpenProcessing in the Tiny Sketch competition, and what we can expect for the future. – Tim StuttsTim: How did you first come up with the idea for OpenProcessing?
Sinan: I guess the first thing to talk about is OpenVisuals, which was my Master’s thesis project at ITP (Interactive Telecommunications Program, New York University). I was reading Edward Tufte’s books at the time, and I became very interested in data visualization. In the meantime …. read more on Rhizome
Smashing Magazine gathered a collection of wireframing kits: utencils, indesign libraries, omni graffle stuff, iPhone templates…. No excuse for us to wire an idea any longer than 5 mins.
50 Free UI and Web Design Wireframing Kits, Resources and Source Files – Smashing Magazine.
Eyes on You, Tarantino is an exploration of unique style of the movie/video directors from the perspective of the eye movement patterns of the audience. Capturing how the eyes of the audience follow the short scenes from Tarantino, Hitchcock and Gondry, using with DIY eye tracking glasses and software, Eyes on You, Tarantino displays these patterns on an interactive installation that project the scenes and recorded eye movement patterns in an intuitive interface. Continue reading…
We were all interested in digital interfaces. But we were all being reminded about how we interacted with physical things naturally. We were all reading The Design of Everyday Things
This is where we came, and it makes me smile in the name of today’s great designers:
So, for a second, think about those days in the automotive industry of 1960s, when the oil prices were low while cars were an oil hog. And nobody was wondering to ask about CO2 emissions of a vehicle to a car dealer. Now that, climate change is on the news and green products are all the engineers and designers working on, it is ok to seek for the car with the highest mpg. That’s how we are becoming more aware of the sustainable design, and learning to be more sustainable as individuals.
I was checking out the website of my ol’pal Eudora, the serious email client, and I bumped into this new ‘feature’: In its recent version, there is this feature called MoodWatch, and basically alerts you (and stumbles you for a second) to make sure you REALLY want to send that message, if the message content has a bit of an angry mood.
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I have been working on BMW account at Kirshenbaum Bond Senecal & Partners, since the summer of 2008. Working as an interaction designer in their interactive group, Dotglu, my major responsibility is to make sure this automotive giant’s website bmwusa.com is providing the best user experience, akin to its 6 geared, 230+ horsepowered Ultimate Driving Machines. Continue reading…
I design and develop OpenProcessing.org, an online community platform for Processing developers and artists to upload and share their interactive sketches, browse and comment on each other’s works, and study the open-source code of any sketch.
OpenProcessing.org provides users to collaborate within this unique community, and support the open source sharing and learning. To support the community and sharing truely, OpenProcessing licenses any sketches uploaded with Creative Commons GNU GPL license. Continue reading…
As my graduation project at ITP, I designed and developed OpenVisuals.org, a framework for different open source visualizations and data sets to work with each other. Gathering people who are interested in information/data visualization together, website is a user submitted collection of visualizations and data sets, that work with each other: Users can upload a data set and visualize it using any of the uploaded visualizations on the website, or develop a new visualization on top of any uploaded data set.
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