You have to love tuk tuks. Found all over the world. Interestingly (for only me probably) I was not expecting to see them in Italy/ Sicily. What was nice is that rather than the dirtiness and overloaded style of their Indian counterparts the Sicilian versions were either loved or abandoned. Yes yes, not an exciting [...]
I want an instant cycle lane please!
February 8, 2009 –
The LightLane started life as an entry to a design competition aimed at promoting bicycle commuting. “Having witnessed several friends be hit by cars while in traffic, we felt the intimidation of sharing the road was one of the bigger barriers to commuting by bicycle,” Gant said. He designed the gadget with Alex Tee. They [...]
Blind faith.
January 27, 2009 –
Tokyo is no exception, it caters for the blind with bobbled slabs and beeping crossings. What I found facinating were the walking guides to take you in straight lines, mixed with bobble junctions. It looks like Lego road building sections or scalectrix track bits. The beeping on the streets were rather nice, I recorded them [...]
Roadwork preparation
October 31, 2008 –
These road markings were at the junction south of the river of Blackfriers Bridge London mid 2008. I thought they looked nice enough to stop and record in the morning on the way in to work. I am not sure what they mean, I am guessing the symbols and colours relate to different services, gas, [...]
The standard human-earth interface
October 30, 2008 –
The floor is the quintessential interface. Well technically it is gravity but the first tangible effect is the floor. A floor can be as high or as low as you like, provided there is a basic method of access it is always a floor. Even a roof is a floor when you are on it. [...]
Push that button
October 23, 2008 –
When there is a fire, smoke, mild panic etc – which would you press? I was at the Bienale Venice in 2006 and did joke that it was contempory art due to it’s inherent statement about panic and choice – made even more arresting due to it’s use of common fire alarms. LOL. The joke [...]
I need a lighter
October 22, 2008 –
If you are selling lighters, no matter how exclusive, consider the lighting. Oh and no, the lighter used in this shot is not exclusive. And double no, I do not know what makes a lighter exclusive.
Make everyone stop
October 22, 2008 –
The things that make us stop. This traffic light is in Rome, Italy. I love that the most important function is the largest, they are not like this in America but they do call it a stop light. Form or function following which?
Stairmate
October 21, 2008 –
Usability is not limited to websites, making the physical environment easier to navigate is key to how we live and find input. I call this the 4th dimension -yes I am aware that this is popularily known as time but I think that is 5D. 4D is HOW we use the 3 dimensions preceeding it. [...]
Stay on track
October 4, 2008 –
Humm. I apparently have a thing for tracks, especially ones which are an afterthought. These are on a boat trailer in Whitstable, Kent. There was some very robust looking stuff around the beach -which may be on the blog sometime- but this I thought interesting as it was not apparent to me why they did [...]
The Gravité wonder app was a precurser to the fu
October 2, 2008 –
Well, for me it was I recall discovering this and upon installing it being completely wowed in every way. The ability to throw your icons around; grab them on an edge and spin them around. Well I realize this is sounding dull but it is/ was not. It turned your interface into a plausible physical [...]
Awareness Test for Drivers
September 30, 2008 –
A nice and simple creative with a topic close to my heart.
Odd lock in France
September 25, 2008 –
This lock is in my friend Pheobe’s house in the middle of Paris, France. It is an odd lock with part of the mechanism on the key itself. On discovery I was, and am, facinated with this find – It seems odd to put a spring loaded unit on a key let alone have such [...]
The TiVo Remote’s development story
June 25, 2008 –
Sometimes I wonder about those meetings where a stupid idea comes up and it is debated over a large table with bored corporate stakeholders. It is nice to see a journey depicted at all, a bonus is that it is interesting (to me). The interface between the populous and their sacred TVs is such an [...]
Exploratree – Exploratree by FutureLab
May 23, 2008 –
http://www.exploratree.org.uk/ Add this to a creative management tag and get al to write about or a review of mindshare. Benjamin
Explaining User Experience
April 18, 2008 –
http://www.jeremyjohnsononline.com/2006/08/25/explaining-user-experience/