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Interface

• Design in the Wild, Gold Star, Interface, Mobile, Thoughts

  Design in the wild: IntelliScreen - finally, some idle screen customization for the iPhone

  05.14.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Over at ModMyiPhone there’s a post about new software called IntelliScreen that allows you to load widgets onto your iPhone’s idle screen. While I’ve made it this far without jailbreaking my phone (and I can certainly make it another month), this brings to light a need that has until now gone suspiciously unmet in my […]

• Design, Interface, Thoughts

  What site’s video player would need slow motion? DanceJam, that’s what!

  05.08.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  My friend Susie pointed me towards this little site called DanceJam.com - basically a YouTube for the do-it-yourself So You Think You Can Dance crowd - complete with dance-offs and I assume the occasional person getting served.
  While I was watching this video for JT’s Sexy Back, I noticed a little turtle icon in the media […]

• Customer Service, Design, Design in the Wild, Gold Star, Interface, Social, Thoughts

  Design in the Wild: Beautiful Barcodes

  04.05.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Leave it to the Japanese to take something as mundane as the barcode and make an artform out of it.
  Update: Check out this post filled with awesome barcodes that safoocat sent me via Flickr.
  This reminded me of those super cool Japanese manhole covers from a while back:

  These are great examples of how anything (even […]

• Customer Service, Design in the Wild, Gold Star, Interface, Social, Thoughts

  Design in the Wild: Get Satisfaction’s Social Onboarding Process

  03.31.08 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  Get Satisfaction is an awesome site devoted to providing a platform for companies, as well as the people who use their products, to provide (and share) support for their products. It’s a top notch approach to customer service that does a great job at leveraging current technology as well as current social community behavioral trends […]

• Interface, Thoughts

  Reading AppleTV patents: widgets and DVR functionality

  03.15.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  A couple of AppleTV-related patents have recently been unearthed and while I wasn’t immediately grabbed by the product, the direction it could head in is very exciting. Also, I know that trying to read Apple’s intentions from their patents can often be a fool’s game but a boy can still dream, right?

  First off there was […]

• Customer Service, Design, Gold Star, Interface, Mobile, Thoughts

  iPhone + Starbucks: now with movement

  03.07.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Remember those super slick mockups from a while back for what a Starbucks + iPhone integration might look like? Well, follow this link and check out what they might look like in action - its a nice peek into what a well-executed retail app on a phone might look like.
  Big bonus points for a little […]

• Design, Design in the Wild, Interface, Locative, Signage, Thoughts

  Design In The Wild: Cancun airport - good for maps, bad for books

  02.24.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  On our way back from Tulum, Karen and I got delayed at the Cancun airport for about four and a half hours. This resulted in having the “opportunity” to eat our first ever meal at Bubba Gump’s, as well as learn the layout of the airport backwards and forwards.
  After some time wandering around trying […]

• Gold Star, Interface, Mobile

  Socialthing’s launching some great looking updates at SXSW

  02.23.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  …and I’ll be there to give them a test run. Amongst other things, it looks like they might launch some of the features that will let you update various sites from their unified interface:

  As well as a great looking iphone interface:

  The most exciting piece of news to me is the sneak peak at a slick […]

• Design, Gadgets, Interface

  “My first hour with the XO”

  02.11.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  After weeks of eagerly awaiting the arrival of his XO OLPC, my friend Kip finally got his and he’s spent some time this weekend getting intimate with it. Check out this nicely-detailed Flickr set where he does a great job of pointing out aspects of both the physical design as well as the […]

• Gold Star, Interface

  Saving items to read later done as simply as humanly possible

  01.30.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  And it works beautifully.
  Reasons why this is a great application:
  1. 1 step registration process
  2. 1 feature - a bookmarklet you drag to your toolbar and click to save links you want to read later
  3. 1 page that aggregates all those saved links for you to check out when you have the time
  That’s it.
  Go check out […]