Nest | The Learning Thermostat I’m certainly not the only person to talk about Nest this week, so I won’t try to dig too deep into it. I just wanted to note it, and comment on how nice it is to see design coming to the forefront of those hidden pieces of tech. Thermostats have [...]
Category Archives: Design
The future of QR codes
October 23, 2011 – 7:38 pm
It’s been some time now that we’ve been trying to get QR codes working as a marketing or user experience conduit, and it’s still just not working. For the majority of the smartphone-using public, QR codes are just not an option. They don’t know what a QR code is, they don’t know what to do [...]
Why I switched from Android to a 4 year old iPhone
August 24, 2011 – 8:26 pm
This week I stole a first generation iPhone from my year and a half year old daughter. She had been using it for months to walk around with, perched between ear and shoulder, repeating “hello? hello.” It had saliva coated on over it’s once pristine face, but I got rid of that quickly. Maybe a [...]
Lovely educational iPad apps
August 24, 2011 – 2:54 pm
http://montessorium.com/ They paid so much attention to the little details, but kept it a simple experience. So important for a kid to be able to play without getting distracted by more flashing lights and bells.
The end of advertising as we know it, or “the sky is falling”
August 23, 2011 – 8:37 pm
I wrote this the day the article in question was posted, and never made it public. I don’t know why it slipped my mind, but here it is, a little late, but true as ever. MDC partners has posted on their blog about the Reader function of mobile Safari, and are making it seem as [...]
