Ok, so it's not exactly spelt correctly (I have only one 'L'. Anyway, here is a shot of the Suburb of Phillip in Canberra, Australia, or rather the sign that informs you you're in the suburb of Phillip.
Random connections, I work at Suburb, and my name is Philip.
Thanks Google.
A thought provoking (rant) article by Bret Victor, former Apple Human-Interface Inventor (http://worrydream.com/Apple/). In this brief rant, Bret raises some interesting points about how we as Human's Interact. The whole rant stems from how we are being 'sold' possible visions of the future, designing Future Interfaces For The Future (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6cNdhOKwi0&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fworrydream.com%2FABriefRantOnTheFutureOfInteractionDesign%2F&feature=player_embedded), and how something really fundamental is being overlooked, our 'Hands'. As Bret points out, 'Our hands literally define us'.
Bret raises some really interesting points, it would be interesting to see how anyone is able to move beyond just the 'Pictures Under Glass' technology that Bret mentions. Kinect goes some way toward the user manipulating content through whole body gestures, but what about devices that allow us to do more with the extensive capabilities that our hands possess (other than just pushing things around with our fingers)?
Have a read for yourself, and see how much of it you agree with.
http://worrydream.com/ABriefRantOnTheFutureOfInteractionDesign/
The lovely folks at helloyoucreatives held a Pumpkin Carve off.
It's amazing how many people walked past this little lot, paying them no heed whatsoever. One chap who saw me taking these snaps, wondered if it were some kind of retro campaign.
Turns out that Richmond station's getting a spruce up and all the Adshells have been removed. Low and behold, behind them is a treasure trove of lost 80's era rail posters.
Personal faves are 'Catch the train and you've caught the plane' for Gatwick Express, 'Railcards available to Men of 60 and over', and the info-poster for 'Open & Shut on the Southern', there'll be a whole generation that take sliding doors totally for granted, but there was a time when it was important to inform people how to enter/exit these new trains!
Lovely.
Clever thoughts bubble up constantly, but what’s the right venue for all of them? Now you can consult this handy graphic to help make those hard choices among Google+, Foursquare, LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter. Dilemma solved!
We were looking at the Grids part - honest!
ExtensionFM, to give it's full title rolled out a complete overhaul to it's Chrome based social music sharing service today, and what a beauty it is.
As a Chrome extension it came in handy now and again for playing embedded audio files across various sites, but that seemed like all it was good for. Now however, them team at http://ex.fm/ have revamped the extension into a full-fat audio tool, stuffed it full of social features, trending tunes, mixes, genres searches et al. Now as a Music Discovery Platform its ramped up to 11.
The design is clean, and the experience sweet. Fast in Chrome and really easy to move around.
There are a couple of issues though, like not being able to upload a custom background (as the browse button was not visible in Chrome), and, on the iPhone App (pretty tasty too), the LastFM integration did not work properly.
Other than that, it's getting some exhaustive testing here at wearesuburb, and we're loving the new roll-out.
Just need some friends now.
Lovely.
