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ew revolutionary device, thought from the beginning to simplify user interaction with the mobile world and with the Internet in general. Apple set new standards in a moment and created as global new market uniquely devoted to mobile devices. Literally hundred of thousands of applications have been uploaded to the Apple Store in a few months. For the second time since the Internet was launched, programmers felt that a huge opportunity was facing the door. Then if you weren't a Mac programmer, in order to approach iPhone application development you needed to learn a completely new language called Objective-C. In the next few years knowing this language and all the other SDK stuff distributed by Apple will be really important, because you won't be able to plan your application strategy, without taking care of the iPhone platform.
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Non so dirvi se stilisticamente questa UI è adeguata. In effetti rimane abbastanza “tecnica” e non comprensibile se non per gli addetti ai lavori del synth, MA ha davvero una spettacolare dinamicità (sono tutti controlli attivi, non è che sposti le cose ingiro per semplice bellezza) e scatena dei suoni davvero intriganti. Il multi-touch sta [...]
ADAP-TABLE è uno strumento esperienziale per bambini e bambine a partire dai 3 anni. Partendo dal presupposto che il gioco e l’esperienza diretta sono pratiche privilegiate per l’apprendimento, abbiamo progettato non un arredo dalla configurazione fissa, bensì una forma di base semplice - un lungo rettangolo - che, grazie al movimento di una serie di giunti, può essere trasformato con facilità in un tavolo a due altezze, in diversi tipi di sedute, in un paravento dietro cui nascondersi, in un tappeto, in un teatrino e in tutto ciò che la creatività di un bambino e di una bambina sono capaci di immaginare. Cast: creativecaos
Nowadays ecosustainability has become a very relevant matter for humanity. We, as designers, have tried to approach to this issue in a new way. In general, our project goal has not been to provide quantitative data but to sensitize people and make them reflect about their domestic energetic consumption. REFLECT is our answer: it shifts the focus of the users towards the consequences of their ordinary behaviour. Doing it we want to change users’ beliefs and attitudes and to offer a new view of the world. Cast: creativecaos
from: dmc500hats 1 month ago Updated "Startup Metrics for Pirates: AARRR!" presentation by Dave McClure from the Future of Web Apps conference in Miami, February 2009. Tags: revenue referral activation retention acquisition
The Ma. Degree in Design for Communication Environments (DAC) educates professional figures, called interaction designers, able to design, prototypes, evaluate and create environments, artifacts, services and systems in order to improve human activity. Work, leisure time, art, sport, education and entertainment are all matters of our design. Our approach is of collaborative, creative and flexible work within interdisciplinary teams. DAC's human-centered design process involves careful observations of people; gathering insights from those observations and other creative perspectives; exploring and defining design opportunities; helping to define strategy; creating tangible design expressions; and communicating the essence of these ideas. DAC students have strong visualization and prototyping skills in addition to being comfortable working within multidisciplinary teams. Our core method is based on listening, observing, brainstorming, prototyping and iterating the design process. This...
Il MIT Media Lab ha una lunghissima tradizione nel wearable computing. Mentre nella Science Fiction gli autori si perdono nella notte dei tempi (a me viene in mente il solito SnowCrash), nella realtà sono proprio stati loro -quelli del MIT- a percorrere per primi la strada. . Certo, anche nella buona vecchia DOMUS ACADEMY (e penso anche [...]
Ho trovato sul sito di Andrea Vaccari (italiano che studia al MIT e che ho conosciuto all’eTech08 per un suo bel progetto), questo video che non conoscevo. A short video on the Future of Connected and Sustainable Cities. Produced by Arup’s London innovation team, in conjunction with Cisco.
David Orban -speaker alla TechnoArk Conference- fa il punto su Spimes, evoluzione della Rete e conseguenti dilemmi dell’innovazione tecnologica. Un bel talk -in inglese- da seguire con questo viewer che mostra insieme speaker, slide e successione degli argomenti.