tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-191684852011-04-21T16:52:36.057-07:00User Interface and Design rants and thoughts.Andreashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16863372989471282152noreply@blogger.comBlogger111100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19168485.post-1141884410839865332006-03-08T22:04:00.000-08:002006-03-08T22:06:50.850-08:00

I just found this on boingboing and I couldn't stop laughing for several minutes... only at the media lab... :)Just imagine a blender controlled by voice. Here is a video. And here is some text describing it.

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I just listened to a talk about work on the new UI for Office (called Office 12). During this talk the speaker gave a pointer to Jensen Harris' blog on the new Office UI and it is quite a fascinating read and also the comments to the blog entries are definitely worth checking out.

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I just heard of the Talus watch on boingboing (http://www.boingboing.net/). It's an interesting concept for a watch because typically watches are trying to be exact. Well, this one is not. A couple of years ago I heard a talk about time pieces and the one thing that I still remember of that talk is how people use analog and digital watches differently: A digital watch gives you *exact* time, what

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A friend send me a pointer to this page: The 50 Greatest Gadgets of the Past 50 Years.On place 21 (right on top of the page this link should take you to) is the "Zenith Space Command" form 1956, the first remote control. Of course the first (wireless) remote control is a totally cool gadget. But there is something that I found especially amazing about this piece: it doesn't need batteries!!The

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As the Web 2.0 buzzword gets used more and more one wonders... what IS is exactly? Who better to write an article about Web 2.0 than Tim O'Reilly. I happened to stumble over this article more or less by accident and I'm glad I did. It's a lengthy read but it's absolutely worth spending the time. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.htmlAs I'm just finishing

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I recently purchased a personal flame thrower - aka Professional Cooking Torch. Or, as most of us would call it: a creme brulee doohickey. Essentially a little butane torch. These things - especially the larger ones -- have pretty hot flame so you want to make sure there is some safety mechanism on it. Especially as there is also a lock, so that the torch continues burning even after you take

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A recent article on the ipodobserver shows that again that even very elegant designs can have their issues. The article reports about concerns about RSI (repetitive stress injuries) from using the iPod click wheel. Well, my first thought was just to laugh, but of course this concern does make a lot of sense if you really use the spin wheel a lot. Although I have a very long list of - say -

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Here is a reeeeeally cool (and useless?) Flickr mashup (hmmm - does this actually qualify as a mashup?) I found this when I surfed to Julie's Jumble which I found because Julie left a comment on by blog (thanks Julie :) ) It is Words from FlickR Just enter some expression and you get it spelled out using images from Flickr. Here are a few examples:Now, how cool is that?

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Here is a neat little page for people who care about typography. Imagine abbreviations like lol, wtf etc would have evolved before there were computers? How would they change over the years, centuries... what would they look like? http://typophile.com/node/16343

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Oh my, just created the blog and I have something to bitch about already? Geez...!Yesterday I drove into a parking garage as I have done hundreds (thousands?) of times before. I stop at the gate, open my window to get the parking ticket and hear the voide "push the button for the ticket" or something along those lines. And suddenly a thought struck me: why in the world do I have to push a button

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Greetings. For quite a while now I wanted to create a blog like this because almost every day I see something that is just sooo stupidly designed, or baffles me so much, or annoys me so much that I just want to scream. Or at least tell somebody to get it off my chest. So this blog will contain a lot of ranting and bitching about things that apparently are just badly designed. But wait, I don't

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