18 April 2013

Modern Art for Interface Designers

How can visual perspective be innovated to tell different stories?  When does a coin make a bad icon?  When does a bolt of lightening make a great artist?  Alan Blackwell of Cambridge University takes us on an insightful tour of some of the suprising lessons that link computer interface design and modern art...

16 April 2013

UX London - 6 highlights

UX London saw the convergence of inspiring veterans and fresh new designers.  Concepts as diverse as Big Data, humility, abundance and the "Internet of Things" were ever-present, and  experience was described as an ecosystem of multiple events and touchpoints running across many devices, places and moments in time.

Here are just a few highlights from some of the UX leaders at companies like IDEO, Facebook and Intel who shared their insights at UX London...

The PBS Kids Lab

Best part of the job?  Playing educational games.
Take an online field trip to the the PBS Kids Lab on your lunch break today.   It's a great place to check out new developments in educational online games and mobile apps created by the long-time leaders in children's educational entertainment.

Get physical, situated and embodied with some of their delightfully web and mobile camera enabled experiments in augmented and virtual reality gaming for kids.  This big kid, for one, had a blast.