Archive for the ‘Interesting discoveries’ Category

Gallery of Helmet Reflections (via BERG)

This is just WOW!

LINK

Old School Calculators!

Digital please leave analog alone! :X

Man on Wire

“Life should be lived on the edge of life.
You have to exercise rebellion:
To refuse to tape yourself to rules,
To refuse your own success,
To refuse to repeat yourself,
To see every day, every year, every idea as a true challenge -
And then you are going to live your life on a tightrope.”

(Phillippe Petit, 1974)

- Just saw this again with Ma and Baba. Its just so breathtakingly beautiful to see.

My iPhone can now be lost and found…(in theory)

Find my iPhone

Theoretically, my iPhone can now be lost and found.

I’ve activated my MobileMe perk, which lets me pair all Apple devices to the account via the Cloud.

Not that I hope for something bad to happen, but its pretty cool!

When’s the stuff with ‘Where are my friends?’ coming up? (oh, yeah Gowalla…)

Is there something that helps synch real-time location based on movement. Would really help simplify clubbing plans!

Uncle Scrooge came up with Inception

via BoingBoing

Always knew Uncle Scrooge had a foot in the future…

Multiple Identities

What online identities are we using across the Web?

via Gigya

25 UX videos worth seeing…

More here

Retro Facebook, Twitter, Skype and Youtube from the 1950s

via Laughing Squid

iPad + Velcro = Innovation by the People.

Two of mankind’s greatest inventions, together at last. Note: this is an exploration of what is possible, not necessarily what is practical. Tweet from the street at your own risk!

http://jesserosten.com/2010/ipad-velcro

Flowella by Nokia

(via AllAboutSymbian)

Forum Nokia has released a tool, Flowella, which allows designers and developers to easily create design prototypes (mock-ups of how an application will look), without using a single line of code. Prototypes are built by using images of screen mock-ups and defining links between them (i.e. what happens when you click of a given area). The information is then used to create a Flash Lite application or WRT widget, which can be run on a Nokia phone or in the included simulator.

The tool is important because it allows designers to create design prototypes more easily, making it more likely that an application design can be evolved several times during the course of a development cycle. In a video introducing Flowella Tim Brooke, Senior Design Specialist (nokia Desgn), notes that Forum Nokia found that, “a lot of designers were creating visual assets that never made it made out of Illustrator or PowerPoint” and that “a lack of developer resources means prototypes are not created or are created too late in the process”. The result is that “designers are unable to test until late in the design process and this is often too late to suggest significant change”.

The aim of Flowella is to allow a greater amount of design prototyping to be included within a project. It should also help free up developer resources that may have previously been used for prototyping. The end result will be an application with better UX, which will be easier to use and more popular with consumers.

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Even though Flowella might be coming out a little late in the day, I think it’s still interesting enough to try.

I think its great for simple screen based interaction, especially when there’s lots of wireframing involved.

Personally I’ve been trying to use Adobe Flash Catalyst a bit in recent time, but the dream of the perfect software for IxD designers remains elusive.

Download Flowella here.
Watch compelling demo video here.

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I am an Interaction Designer based in Stockholm, Sweden. I'm working at Er-gono-mi-design these days, usual doing some awesome stuff. This blog is about exciting things, thoughts and events I happen to stumble upon. Sometimes, its a canvas for random experiments. More often, it'll be a museum of things, links, and nuggets of gold done by other people that I choose to preserve.