The Seven Stages of Falling in Love with Web Applications
Photo: eek the cat
The other day I was trying to explain the emotional relationships people have social utilities and other read/write web applications …
Doctor's Note
A mix of essays and commentary about design, innovation, technology, society, coaching, personal and leadership development. Since 1996.
IKEA Complete Bedroom
I seem to be having a bit of an IKEA theme going on at the moment.
Following on from the Dream Kitchen site there’s a nice new piece called The Complete …
Outside of the Internet there is no Glory
I liked this and the sentiment. It’s a poster for the Biennial in Greece from Manetas.
(Via Thomas).
From the archives: Dialogue with IKEA's Monika Mulder
Continuing the From The Archives series, here is an interview I did a while ago with one of the IKEA designers, Monika Mulder. Monika was really interesting to …
BlinkM - RGB LED Projects made easy
If you read Russell’s great post, Reskilling For An Age of Things and sympathised with his woeful soldering skills, these BlinkM programmable RGB LEDs …
Got ripped off in a MacHeist? It's a UI failure.
No, not a hold-up in McDonalds, but the MacHeist Mac software bundle sale/game.
Like many, I got charged ten times and received nothing and also heard nothing …
Troika is on Cloud, er, Five
If you haven’t already explored the background behind Troika’s cloud for BA’s Terminal 5 - “a five meter long digital sculpture whose …
PayPal, A Customer Service Nightmare
Companies like PayPal are basically all service and no product, so it makes sense that they should spend a lot of their time on it as do First Direct. Sadly, …
Is your cellphone company evil?
Mine certainly is.
No Evil is a great viral microsite for Net 10 that plays on the idea that cellphone companies are a bunch of money-grabbing evil madmen. …
re/act 4th International Student Festival for Media Art
Monika tells me this is a great festival for student media-arts work. It looks good to me and I think I saw some work from it last year.
It’s a good …
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