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Finding your way…


February 2nd, 2012  |  Katy  |  Categories: Geolocation, Inspiration, Interactive, Mobile, Outdoor, Tool  |  Tags: , , ,  |  No Comments »

Two mobile apps for navigating the city in two very different ways:

Embark – maps plus some more hand-holding (i.e. alerts, underground access)

Via Laughing Squid

Serendipitor – maps plus simple instructions to follow along the way — for the more whimsical commuter


The Expressive Web


January 6th, 2012  |  James Taylor  |  Categories: Design, Development, Education, Inspiration, Interactive, Reference, Technology, Tool  |  Tags: , , , , , , , ,  |  No Comments »

Adobe’s The Expressive Web demos the emerging capabilities that html5 and css3 deliver.


Uncover Your World


January 4th, 2012  |  Friends  |  Categories: Art, Geolocation, Inspiration, Installation, Interactive, Mobile, Prototyping, Technology  |  Tags: , ,  |  No Comments »

Grow Interactive worked with Google to concept and develop Uncover Your World, a lovely mobile experience for Google’s Search App.

To build the ad experience, Grow modeled an entire “world” with 3D technology and used a 3D printer to bring it to life. Check out the making-of video below:

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You can explore the mobile site here: http://www.uncoveryourworld.com/

Contributed by Mia Ruiz-Escoto


MapCodes: Sexier, More Useful QR Codes


January 4th, 2012  |  Katy  |  Categories: Art, Inspiration, Interactive, Mobile, Sculpture, Technology, Tool  |  Tags: ,  |  No Comments »

You may think their time has passed, but what if QR Codes were less ugly and more useful?

Designer Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino set out to improve this troubled medium with Mapcodes, a hyper-linking system that uses fragments of maps — instead of indecipherable blocks — to link to full maps.

 

http://designswarm.com/blog/2011/09/mapcodes/

Although still in prototype/idea territory, it’s refreshing to see more user-friendly (and beautiful) graphic languages being developed for connecting digital content to physical locations.

Contributed by Ralph Paone


Fühl-o-meter – Public Face


December 12th, 2011  |  James Taylor  |  Categories: Architecture, Art, Data Visualization, Events, Inspiration, Installation, Interactive, Outdoor, Sculpture, Social, Technology  |  Tags: , , , , , , , ,  |  No Comments »

Fühl-o-meter assesses the sentiment of peoples faces’ and projects the ambient mood of the city through a smiley face atop a tower.

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via laughing squid


Bounce Rate Infographic


October 7th, 2011  |  James Taylor  |  Categories: Data Visualization, Interactive, Online, Reference  |  Tags: , ,  |  No Comments »

Infographic from Kiss Metrics explaining what a bounce rate is:


Kinect DJ Maxx


October 6th, 2011  |  James Taylor  |  Categories: Development, HCI (Human Computer Interaction), Inspiration, Installation, Interactive, Music, Outdoor, Technology  |  Tags: , , , , , , ,  |  No Comments »

Using Kinect, Romain Dumaine controls sound with gestures with an aim to enhance interaction between a DJ and the crowd.

Kinecthacks.com showcases other kinect/sound experiments.


Give a smile, get a smile


October 5th, 2011  |  Friends  |  Categories: Interactive, Online, Social  |  Tags: , , ,  |  No Comments »

On the site Two of Us, anyone can take a picture of themselves smiling and share it with another smiling stranger.

Amazingly simple, but still a fun way to connect and add some humanity back to the Internet.


CodeAcademy


September 9th, 2011  |  Friends  |  Categories: Development, Interactive, Online, Tool  |  Tags: , , , ,  |  No Comments »

Awesome free tool for learning how to code in Javascript!  http://www.codecademy.com/


iPad Iteration of novel with Shuffle feature


August 31st, 2011  |  Katy  |  Categories: Interactive, Mobile  |  Tags: , , ,  |  No Comments »

Read Marc Saporta’s Composition No. 1 on shuffle with the novel’s new iPad iteration.

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It doesn’t seem like this would be that relaxing of a reading experience, but it’s cool that the technology helps achieve the work’s original intention to be read non-linearly.

Via Gizmodo