Our future's past

Hope everyone is having a blast during the Spring break; long walks on the driveway between design iterations, delicious and exotic meals between printing out comps, and late night movie watching The Truman Show or Ed TV.  :)

Here is a fun blog post on old PC ads from io9.com. You laugh now, but in 10 years yo will be laughing at your own collection of outdated hardware.

Have a safe vacation and hope all of you return hungry for more.

No to no UI

In the industry there is a notion that "No UI" should be the aim for all applications. Less UI is better but no UI is best. Now, we need to understand what that means first. This article addresses the point of why "No UI" does not work.

Click on the image to read the article

If the application we create doesn't make noise, allows the users to accomplish what they want to accomplish and they can recall/share their experiences rather than just talk about how bad the UI was, that's when the UI becomes invisible and the experience becomes visible.

Best video app ever!

Well, I was surfing and found this fantastic app.

It is called Vyclone. Check it out!

(Mwa ha ha ha)

No, this was not spam. I did post this. What am I doing? Having fun with videos. Of course, this isn't the only kind, but what everyone really needs to do is to think outside of the proverbial box.

You have to think about "what is gonna make people want to make a video of this?" What is the compelling reason and what is the emotional satisfaction you want people to have?

Not simple. But a very promising problem to solve. You have 2 class sessions sandwiched in the project. I would use those days wisely.