Thinking about Open Design
A couple weeks ago my Design Strategies and Methods professor asked us to write a page describing our "Worldview." No one knew what a worldview was and we later found his vagueness was intentional, but I took a stab at it in hopes of finding some personal design philosophy I never had.
Custom Times
"Personalized version of The New York Times that seamlessly transitions across multiple platforms: print, web, mobile, tv/living room and the car."
iPad UI Conventions
Notes on iPad UI conventions culled from public sources (mostly Apple promotional videos).
Strophe
"Strophe is a family of libraries for writing XMPP clients. libstrophe is a C library with minimal dependencies. Strophe.js is a pure-JavaScript library. The implementations are production ready, well documented, easy to use, and easy to extend."
Destination: Interaction 10
This week I'm flying south to attend Interaction 10 in Savannah, Georgia. This is my first IxDA conference and my first time visiting Savannah. I finally started checking out the conference schedule, and I thought I'd share a few that caught my eye...
​Modern browsers for modern applications
Already deleted my IE6 VM; have better things to do with my time.
After a run-in with the copyright police, Mudstomp Mondays picks up where Pub Sessions left off
"I'm more of a copy-left kind of guy," Osterhout adds. "If you buy a Deadman Flats album, we encourage you to burn it for all of your friends, put it on your iPod, play it in your car, and pick up your guitar and learn the tunes. I would be honored to hear people covering my songs onstage."
Inkling
"Inkling puts everything students need, from textbooks to assessment to friends, right at their fingertips, helping them reach their learning objectives more quickly and with better results."
HumanApi, Sports ECG in real life
Interesting use of Arduino, iPhone, and a bluetooth heart rate monitor. source code