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Bytes, The Neuroverse & Everything

Jackie's musings on computing, cognition, creativity, and other riveting topics.

Dec 01

» Master of Tangible Interaction Design @ CMU

10 people, 12 months, designers with no programming and programmers with no design welcome. Coolest topic around.

Nov 24

Distractions: The state of blogging

Comic by Hugh MacLeod

Nov 18

» NYC Mayor proposes 6¢ tax on plastic bags - citizens cheer or make ridiculous excuses

Nov 12

» Phone Smart - Programs to Let Your Smartphone Help You Shop - NYTimes.com

The iPhone app I’m creating uses barcode scanning technology as well. While these apps use it to help shoppers, we’re using it to facilitate learning. That’s one of my favorite parts about designing for mobile — there are so many ways to leverage the suite of tools in the phone’s constantly changing environment.

Nov 11

» When to Use Which User Experience Research Methods (Alertbox)

Christian Rohrer gives an enlightening comparison of various user research methods. Nielson peppers the article with useful links to his writeups on various usability and user research techniques.

Jul 18

» Gore challenges America to use green energy to charge electric cars

As a student of environmental science, and one-time conservation researcher, it has always struck me that electric cars would just shift the use of fossil fuels from one source to another (albeit lessening them). Gore’s statement, that we need to make the energy we do use to fuel these cars green, as in solar, wind, etc., is a breath of fresh air in what seemed to me an emporor has no closthes situation.

Apr 17

Neri Oxman

She doesn’t believe biomimicry is a passing fad: “The biological world,” she says, “is displacing the machine as a general model of design.” (via Seedmagazine.com | Revolutionary Minds | Design & Architecture | Neri Oxman)

Apr 10

» Spyn - Weaving Stories into Handcrafted Artifacts

One of the projects from CHI 2008 that is closest to my heart.

Apr 03

» Study, Design, Build, Evaluate, and now, Understand

Microsoft Research projects what computing will look like in 2020.

Apr 01

» Google Docs to have offline capabilities

How they coordinate offline edits between different users should be interesting. Considering my dependence on Google Docs, let’s hope it’s not catastrophic.