Archives

March 2010

• How robots are making us more human
• The Experience Points Economy

February 2010

• Email must die
• New swarm display could replace fireworks - if it exploded
• How outsourced content could save magazines and piss off a lot of content writers
• How Many Billboards: MAK Center replaces crappy ads with crappy art
• 6 things you could do with mobile radar (that probably won't kill anyone)
• The copywriter/art director team for the digital ad agency
• Personalized advertising and the end of the salesman
• %*#!ing mixed feelings on profanity
• How user experience design will kill the technology gap
• Vizio's Superbowl ad by Venables Bell + Partners, and why it made us feel sad and awkward
• EA Criterion designer Richard Franke on zombies, gamers, and "shiny brightly coloured things"
• You have no freaking idea how much I want glowing wallpaper
• How our machines are making humans who can make better machines
• Why creative people are really really really important
• Driving, you suck and we hate you.

January 2010

• Rat Race 2020: "Let’s start with the assumption that people are amazing."
• Every other unboxing video ever has just been totally pwned by ninjas
• A napping UX win
• Farmville 2020: Day of the Triffids
• Designers, ask yourself: "What would bacteria do?"
• Decoding digital art - and the nature of art itself - at the V+A

December 2009

• What casual gaming can teach us about educating underprivileged women
• 5 creative lessons I learned from living in San Francisco
• Mag+ makes magazines sexy again. (In the future.)
• 5 industry bloggers I would love to have a drink with
• The best advertising doesn't sell. It makes stuff better.
• Farmville vs. Everything
• The rise of infographics and the future of search
• Usability issues can't be solved with ads
• Stuff we make makes stuff more fun.
• On privacy, and why you're better off without it
• 7 ways to improve the Christmas user experience
• 11 ways haptics will rock your digital world
• Square and the Death of Cash

November 2009

• TV? Is that you? Weird running into you here. Uh... well, this is awkward.
• 10 predictions for the next decade
• What would a creative brief for a video game look like?
• How I sold out to work for the devil and why I blame systems theory
• The conversation economy, part 2: there is no conversation economy
• An apology to every manager I ever had
• Why no one will ever care about the boring, complicated crap you're working on
• In the future, everyone will have 15 minutes of obscurity
• How the morons in 2012 should have tried to save humanity instead of the retarded crap they did instead
• NASA MMOG looks like serious brand egagement win
• 4 drugs that should be legalized if necessary and used for brainstorming
• Augmented reality gets fun and sexy in SF
• Why some stuff "just feels right"
• Review: Panamera.com makes us like Cramer-Krasselt, still hate cars
• Millions of players, millions of opportunities to destroy the moral fiber of America.
• What the hell is the Conversation Economy, part 1
• LAIKA font blasts off into parametric space
• Is augmented reality "overblown"?
• Typography is the DNA of graphic design
• Could video games replace advertising?

October 2009

• Monkey presses button monkey gets reward.
• Creating the right environment for life
• The power of individuals (or at least individual billionaires)
• Electronic wallpaper probably won't kill you if your house floods
• Yahoo is doin it rong
• Girls with ice cream truck make us wish real Photoshop glasses were actually possible
• An argument in favor of creativity
• Immersion as a state of mind
• 5 reasons games are the freaking best way to educate
• Retail for Airports
• Take that, boring Prius "Yes" ads.
• In adaptive gaming, game plays you!
• WTF FTW (Why absurdity is good for you.)
• "Vodka tonic, on the surface."
• Design's only purpose

September 2009

• Fun with AR: Strangers on a (BART) Train
• Design's gray areas
• Imagine a world where everything fits right. And matches.
• PayPal's convenient, yet germaphobically horrifying vision of the future.
• The ultimate user interface
• Why advertising and video games are the perfect filler for this rad Venn diagram I made