Tag: Interaction Design

I had never realised that touch screens were limited to only a single point of contact at a time until I saw this. The video of the mocked up applications they have been looking at are incredible. Typing onscreen then resizing and placing the text, organising your photos and just creating beautiful organic patterns. Can’t…

Information Gravity and Tipping Points The subject of del.icio.us came up, after it transpired one of my colleagues had met the VC who bought it off its original owner for half a million or so and the sold if for over ten times that to Yahoo. Nice. A lot of people seem to underestimate the…

Some iPod Suggestions A couple of pet peeves from my iPod, which I freely admit is not the latest whizz bang video version but a plain ol’ 4G; Firstly, when I’m in in shuffle mode sometimes a song will come up that makes me feel like listening to something else, either on the same album…

Improving perfection In Japanese society it is considered disrepectful to God to claim something is perfect, as only God can create perfection. This means that in all designs there is an introduced flaw, a sacrifice almost, that ensures the design is not perfect and God is satisfied. I like to use the same excuse at…

Snap Decisions The BBC had an article today about how we make decisions on whether or not to trust a website within a twentieth of a second. Studies seem to indicate that, whatever the real content and value of the site, most people trust their first instinct and go on to re-enforce that belief with…