Exploring the Photosynth Technical Preview
Photosynth is for me a brilliant piece of software that’s crying out for creative exploration. The latest release is in a technical preview stage and has introduced a few new features such as the walk and the wall and I…
Interactive story telling. Part 1.
You know when you have an idea, one that exists only in your head but you have a picture of how it will manifest itself in a finished product. I have one of those right now, and it is around…
How do I look so cool on Skype? That’ll be Xbox One
My brother asked me if I had my own camera crew to assist with my Skype conversations. Haha. I don’t. What I do have is Skype on my Xbox One. I can sit on my sofa and it will zoom…
Best Kickstarter video ever?
I’ve been a fan of Keiichi’s work since a first saw Augmented (hyper)Reality: Domestic Robocop so I’m super excited about his new Kickstarter project: Hyper-Reality: A New Vision of the Future. Not only is this the best Kickstarter video I’ve…
Apps World 2013 – Design & UX Panel – App design to satisfy app stores and consumers alike
I was invited to speak on a panel at Apps World this year accompanied by James Griffin, Head of Mobile User Experience, BAE Systems Detica, Paul Cooper, Head of App Development, Imagine Publishing and Kathryn Leach, Senior User Experience Designer,…
Breaking Jeans
I was sat in the audience at the POINT conference earlier this year, the theme was authenticity. There was one particular story I heard there that really resonated with me and made me want to take part in a project….
Designing the Future of the Intelligent Car: User Experience
I love my cars, I love the changes in their interfaces over the years from the very analogue and symmetrical view in my 1972 Mini, the space age Citroen GS, the cartoonified G-wiz through to my current BMW stable of…
Xbox SmartGlass – dual screening using Surface as SatNav
There’s been some discussion in recent years about how many screens we each have and that one holy grail is how we get these screens to work together – TV, PC, phone, tablet – so I thought I’d share this…
Self-driving hover car. Really.
The only thing I like more than a flying car is one that can drive itself. This film goes some way to explaining how this might be possible. And it’s in English.
Your Team Is Going To Absolutely Love This
I enjoy the little details in software that make you smile, especially when that smile comes from somewhere as unexpected as source control software. I’ve been using the online version of Team Foundation Server for a while and there’s a…