Listen to the audio. Watch the video. Download the slides. I thought I’d kind of pull back a bit, so I’m not going to be giving you any practical take-aways today. I’m going to sort of look at a bit o
'Hello. Thanks for Coming' We use Jonathan Ive’s products to help us to eat, drink and sleep, to work, travel, relax, read, listen and watch, to shop, chat, date and have sex. Many of us spend more ti
FACT: design as a service and responsive web design are incompatible. This is an open letter to Ralph Rivera, the head of BBC FM, explaining how we should change the relationship between developer and
The more I build for the web, the more the term ‘device-agnostic’ endears itself to me. I used to think it merely dealt with basing responsive breakpoints on content rather than particular devices, bu
I’m sure it was a Wired editor, and not the author Steven Levy, who assigned the title “How the NSA Almost Killed the Internet” to yesterday’s fine article about the pressures on large social networki
The internet of 2006 was not much different than it is today, mainly less: a bit slower, sparser, less open for business, like your hometown before the strip mall got put in. It was on this internet t
Zach Braff, right, and Mandy Patinkin at the premiere of the Kickstarter-funded movieJason Kempin / Getty Images Now that Zach Braff has premiered his crowd-sourced movie at the Sundance Film Festival
If you use Netflix, you've probably wondered about the specific genres that it suggests to you. Some of them just seem so specific that it's absurd. Emotional Fight-the-System Documentaries? Period Pi
On this date in "Back to the Future" history, Nov. 12, 1955, lightning struck the clock tower in Hill Valley, Calif. providing enough power (1.21 gigawatts, in case you forgot) to send Marty McFly and
Normally the whiteboards in the Clearleft office are monopolised by the designers, but just the other day, the front-end developers laid claim to some wall space for a quick’n’dirty exercise. We wante
The ultimate goal of signals intelligence and analysis is to learn not only what is being said, and what is being done, but what is being thought. With the proliferation of search engines that directl
Let's start at the end point: what you're doing right now. You are pulling information from a network onto a screen, enhancing your embodied experience with a communication web filled with people and
Jul 16, 2013 Authentic Design About The Author Dmitry Fadeyev is the creator of Usaura, a micro usability testing service, and the founder of UsabilityPost, a blog about good design and user experienc
6 min read· Feb 27, 2013 -- The Vons grocery store two miles from my home in Los Angeles, California sells 12 cans of Coca-Cola for $6.59 — 54 cents each. The tool chain that created this simple produ
Illustration by Charlie Powell. In March 2009, Golan Levin, the director of Carnegie Mellon University’s interdisciplinary STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, invited an enigmatic and famed computer programm
http://imgur.com/a/rAnZs I've been playing the same game of Civ II for 10 years. Though long outdated, I grew fascinated with this particular game because by the time Civ III was released, I was alrea
Ray Bradbury walked into my office in 1995 and I dissolved into a puddle of geek. He was there to talk about a CD-ROM game based on The Martian Chronicles. I didn't care about the game much. It was a
Matthew Embree, RX Bandits, Love You Moon The RX Bandits sound fuses elements of rock, reggae, ska, and jazz. Their multi-dimensional approach should come as no surprise, though, once you understand t