Distraction, voice recognition, and driving
Think that Siri or a handsfree set makes it safe for you to send texts and do email in the car? (While the car is moving, not a
Designing for delight should be the first step toward designing for humans
Do you feel happier using your smartphone? Get a dopamine hit from balancing your books? That’s because Silicon Valley has embraced “delight.” Los Angeles Times tech writer Chris
Iron Man 3 on machines and distractions
(Which is great, by the way.) Tony: ...these things, they're--Pepper: Machines. Tony: --part of me. Pepper: They're distractions. Tony [pauses]: Maybe.
Texting while walking, coming through!
Via Gizmodo, this nice piece of improv / tech commentary:
“we are disenfranchised by the concepts of invisibility and disappearance:” Arguments against invisible interfaces
For a long time I've been suspicious about the desire to make interfaces "invisible" or "intuitive." Mainly I think that, when it comes to interacting with the world
Philippe Starck: “I live with myself in front of my white page.”
What I love about this Philippe Starck interview is that it flies completely in the face of the modern idea that good ideas come out of endless networking,
Other ambient sounds, courtesy of Adam Greenfield
In addition to having cool tattoos and a great book on ubiquitous computing, Adam points me to a couple other awesome ambient sound sites: You are listening to,
The new must-have digital accessory? A double bed for you and your devices
So says the Daily Mail, though I don't guarantee that this is not an April Fools' Day joke: [T]he digitisation of childhood appears to be leading to changes
Don’t like your your phone “buzzing like a beehive with status updates”? Try it on your face!
This observation from The Verge's Ellis Hamburger: Let's face it: we're all pretty horrible at turning off push notifications on our smartphones. You install an app, give it
“the way we compute is… changing the way we sit”
Steelcase recently conducted a global study of computing and posture, research meant to inform their next generation of office furniture. Their conclusion: As smartphones and tablets -- computers