Doctor's Note

A mix of essays and commentary about design, innovation, technology, society, coaching, personal and leadership development. Since 1996.

Little Red Riding Hood, Infographics Style

You have to admire the Swedish ability to indoctrinate their students with brilliant design skills. The above Little Red Riding Hood piece by Toma Nilsson was …

Open Frameworks on the iPhone

OpenFrameworks, the “C++ library for creative coding”, is starting to get a lot more use in interactive installations. I haven’t had the time …

Sixth Sense. Only Slightly Lamer than VR.

Pattie Maes is a smart woman. She’s behind some research projects that I wish I had been part of. But the above presentation at TED of Pranav …

Flash on the Beach 2009

I am thrilled to have been asked to present again at Flash on The Beach again this year. The info about my talk isn’t up yet (and fortunately that highly …

YouTube remixed by Kutiman

There have been a whole load of YouTube musical mash-ups, including the YouTube Orchestra, but this is one of the better ones I’ve seen that’s a bit …

Mouth Off

Audio interaction. It’s one of the first things I show my students when teaching them about input beyond the keyboard and mouth mouse because it’s …

Kinetic Design

Alongside the surge of interest in gestural interaction, there appears to be a rising fascination with kinetic works too. Some of this comes out of the …