Category: education
TEDx talk about materialising digital objects of memory
Great talk given by Daniela Petrelli at TEDxSheffield 2013 on relations between people and objects. Especially interesting is a reflection on objects in space (e.g. at home) and digital files in a computer.
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Microsoft ain’t afraid of no ghosts: the Microsoft Invisible Computing Platform
Interesting middleware proposed by Microsoft to make it easy to design and build smart devices and consumer electronics, especially battery operated [Software]
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African Design can teach us that individual does not exist outside the collective
Nice piece on African Design and what we can learn from it found on the Huffington Post [ARTICLE]
Via designindaba
PCs VS post-PC devices, the schism is here
PCs and Post-PCs devices are very different and I like the clear discussion made in this article, by Matt Baxter-Reynolds, about how trying to combine these things together will lead to UX failures like Windows 8 or RT [ARTICLE]
What can games really teach you? Think about it next time you play Angry Birds
In this interesting article, Peter Vesterbacka, chief marketing officer of Rovio Entertainment, the Finland-based company behind Angry Birds describes how games are really relevant for teaching and learning [ARTICLE]
We might think that User experience is a modern field, but it’s about a century old
Interesting interview on UXBooth with Leah Buley on her new book “UX Team of One” which reminds us that UX is probably starting to move in its mature phase [ARTICLE]
Via Rosenfeld Media
A well designed user interface goes unnoticed by the user – On invisible UIs
In the last few years web designers continuosly played with button colors, and dropped shadows, borders and gradients to design more usable and beautiful UI. But the real objective of a good user interface design should not be usable, but invisible, as nicely stated in this [ARTICLE].
Me and co-authors tried to address one particular aspect of the same problem, with an input-free approach, in this paper on “I feel lucky” displays [I feel lucky: an automated personal assistant for smartphones]
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Alessio Malizia 