A diagram of cause and effect where the concept of risk is implicit; a lovely way to sell investments as it brings out the game and sense of play. It would be interesting to draw out news events in a similar fashion, rather than most of the infographics produced for news, which more-often-than-not don’t tell [...]
I like the idea of Chromaroma. I don’t live in London, so don’t really have much use for it practically. Chromaroma tries to facilitate a game-like behaviour on traveling from one part of London to another, something that you’re able to affect only to a limited degree (you’re dependent more on the transport network). It [...]
Categories: design
I did a talk at Interesting North back in November 2010 on my favourite two subjects; cities and bikes. Here it is: James Boardwell from Interesting North on Vimeo.
Categories: conferences
“To create successful animation, you must understand why an object moves before you can figure out how it should move. Character animation isn’t the fact that an object looks like a character or has a face or hands. Character animation is when an object moves like it is alive, when it looks like it is [...]
Categories: design,interaction design
VCA 2010 RACE RUN from changoman on Vimeo.
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One of the things we’re doing at Rattle are once a month ‘hackdays’. We’re doing hackdays to rapid prototype ideas we have, learn new technologies and have some fun. Previous hackdays have produced things like Wordr, Social Scoreboards, Pretend Fan, Open Plaques and the Job Box. This month we created We Watch: a way to see what [...]
Categories: design,socialsoftware
Malcolm Gladwell has a wonderful article on the art of pitching and in particular the art of pitching as practised by the Popeil and Morris clan in the US in the mid-late 20th Century and epitomised by Ron Popeil, the man who invented the infomercial with products like the Showtime Rotisserie and Grill and the [...]
Categories: communication,design,marketing,society
I’ve been doing a bit of work around dashboards at Rattle. Despite the interest in dashboards there’s precious little in the way of analysis of existing dashboards, for example car dashboards and how their patterns are designed for ‘blink’ interpretation and of course pretending. However, I did come across this in the Nissan GT-R, a [...]
Tagged: dashboard
This tweet got me thinking about how I use different web services and how fundamentally the value I derive from my consumption online is now dependent upon different stuff that talks to each other. Ecosystems. Tom refers to Instapaper in his tweet but I think this tool is illustrative of a broader move toward web [...]
Categories: design,socialsoftware
Tagged: design, ecosystem, instapaper, newspaper