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Really Useful Technology
Apart from your computer or smartphone can you list the top three most useful electronics in your home? Here's my top 3: 1. Washing machine 2. Heaters with timers 3. ??? Well, I don't have a #3. I...
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Small and lingering detail.
Like me, you probably remember the (though perhaps now somewhat vaguely) something of the launch of the original iPhone; or perhaps just taken in the the alluring brushed metal case, the mesmerising...
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Near Field Bliss
Just over a year ago I bought a mobile phone I reckoned had quite a bit of potential. It featured all the standard things like a decent camera, large touch screen, apps apps and more apps, as well as...
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Build Your Own Tupac Hologram!
Last month, a "hologram" of Tupac Shakur performed two of his songs with Snoop Dogg at the Coachella Music Festival. Since Tupac is actually physically dead the news of the digitally alive Tupac swept...
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Trending
It's always fun to do a stocktake of current design trends every now and then. Here are some trends I've observed lately. 1. Simple, natural, strong colour schemes If the 2000s were marked by lots of...
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Putting the spirit back into ghost towns
My old apartment was situated above Shades Arcade off Hereford Street in pre-quake Christchurch. I lived there while attending broadcasting school in 1991, sharing the space with a photographer, a...
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Content: In the eye of the beholder
In the beginning there was the HTML web browser... Bring on the present and we have personalised reader apps and responsive layouts. HTML was created to provide structure and formatting to text and...
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It’s hunting season for social media buttons
Here’s a heads-up that you might have already noticed - social media buttons are an endangered species.Interactive designer Oliver Reichenstein lit a fire with his blog post Sweep the Sleaze a couple...
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Super-sized touch table brings back memories
It was good fun being a kid growing up in Lower Hutt (aka the ‘Hutt’) in the 70s and 80s. We spent all day at the river, or a swimming pools or one of the many parks, eventually going home when we...
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The Hacker Persona
A usable and secure system begins with understanding people - both the wanted and unwanted. In the past month there has been a number of security scandals rocking New Zealand including the Wheedle...
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Lusture
The computer giants want our lust and we’re up for it. It recent weeks there has been a lot of consumer attention and industry jostling over who has the sexiest hardware. Amazon, Apple, Google and...
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Clicks
When we're not crawling around inside giant touch-tables or augmenting reality, Click Suite has one eye on the web and its never-ending flow of fascinating ideas and innovations. Here are some gems I...
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Rewarding good interactions
In the past most design awards would focus purely on visual aesthetics without much attention paid to the actual usefulness or effectiveness of the design. As a result, gorgeous looking but entirely...
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Cut up your magazines
A common thread at Webstock 2013 was the ripping to shreds of the newspaper and magazine industry and their failed attempts to embrace the web. In a stark example of how badly wrong it's going,...
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Why do museums still have "ten year" exhibitions?
Think back to where you were ten years ago. What technology had you just discovered? Just as a reminder i-Tunes was only just launched, and there were still four years to go before you would have even...
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Like it or hate it: Facebook can't be ignored
I MC'ed a great "Brainy Breakfast" for the Marketing Association this morning, with excellent presentations on Facebook. I've been looking after the Fast, Fresh & Tasty page on Facebook for around...
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Small and lingering detail.
Like me, you probably remember the (though perhaps now somewhat vaguely) something of the launch of the original iPhone; or perhaps just taken in the the alluring brushed metal case, the mesmerising...
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Near Field Bliss
Just over a year ago I bought a mobile phone I reckoned had quite a bit of potential. It featured all the standard things like a decent camera, large touch screen, apps apps and more apps, as well as...
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Build Your Own Tupac Hologram!
Last month, a "hologram" of Tupac Shakur performed two of his songs with Snoop Dogg at the Coachella Music Festival. Since Tupac is actually physically dead the news of the digitally alive Tupac swept...
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Trending
It's always fun to do a stocktake of current design trends every now and then. Here are some trends I've observed lately. 1. Simple, natural, strong colour schemes If the 2000s were marked by lots of...
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