Mag+, a concept video on the future of digital magazines

December 17th, 2009 by Matt Webb · 222 Comments

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I’ve got something I want to share with you. We’ve been working with our friends at Bonnier R&D exploring the future of digital magazines. Bonnier publish Popular Science and many other titles. Magazines have articles you can curl up with and lose yourself in, and luscious photography that draws the eye. And they’re so easy [...]

Beautiful Beolit

December 20th, 2007 by Schulze · 11 Comments

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A couple of months back I visited Tom and Durrell at Luckybite to discuss some of the Olinda development. During our conversation, Durrell described one of his favourite portable radios, the Bang & Olufsen Beolit 600. I bought one. The range was produced between 1971 and 1981 and aside from its elegance and good audio [...]

Olinda connections

December 18th, 2007 by Schulze · 1 Comment

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One of Olinda‘s jobs is to communicate the potential for hardware APIs. Matt discussed this in detail in his post on widgets. Olinda is expandable and modular. For this to be effective, the core services of the central unit really have to be accessible from it’s periphery. We don’t mean superficial expansion or extension of [...]

Olinda interface drawings

December 3rd, 2007 by Schulze · 1 Comment

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Last week, Tristan Ferne who leads the R&D team in BBC Audio & Music Interactive gave a talk at Radio at the Edge (written up in Radio Today). As a part of his talk he discussed progress on Olinda. Most of the design and conceptual work for the radio is finished now. We are dealing [...]

RFID icons

October 2nd, 2007 by Schulze · 2 Comments

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Earlier this year we hosted a workshop for Timo Arnall‘s Touch project. This was a continuation of the brief I set my students late last year, to design an icon or series of icons to communicate the use of RFID technology publicly. The students who took on the work wholeheartedly delivered some early results which [...]

RFID Interim update

December 22nd, 2006 by Schulze · Comments Off

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Last term during an interim crit, I saw the work my students had produced on the RFID icons brief I set some weeks ago. It was a good afternoon and we were lucky enough to have Timo Arnall from the Touch project and Younghee Jung from Nokia Japan join us and contribute to the discussion. [...]

Widgets, widgets, everywhere

November 27th, 2006 by Matt Webb · 5 Comments

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There’s been rather an explosion of desktop, mobile, browser and Web widgets. Recently, too, I was groping round the idea of web apps situated outside the computer–but not getting very far. Then I was chatting over email about the Chumby, a cute, carryable, dedicated widget platform… and situated web apps ideas finally locked into focus: [...]

Editing documents as playing music

October 10th, 2006 by Matt Webb · 9 Comments

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I’m currently reading Dan Saffer’s Designing for Interaction. Well written, well structured; a good introduction to interaction design that’s centred on the web as far as I’ve read, and looks as though it’ll take a broader approach in the second half of the book. This passage, on icons, grabbed me: A confusing image can obscure [...]

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