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11.17.08 | Posted By Bryan

Tivo’s Tastiest Interaction Yet Good Idea, brain monkey, opinion | (0)
Tivo and Dominos team up to allow broadband Tivo viewers to order pizza either during a Dominos commercial or through the Tivo menu. The system will even track the order time for delivery or pickup, but you will have to pay the delivery guy in cash. This is another blurring of the digital/physical line, and another heart attack for America. Tivo Press Release Tivo has had the "press the thumbs up button to learn more" feature for at least a few years now. I like this new extension of their old idea.
11.12.08 | Posted By Bryan

A Touchscreen with a Twist Good Idea, brain monkey, impressions, review, suggestion | (0)
News of the Backberry Storm came out over a month ago now, but I've been too swamped to write anything. When RIM announced that the Blackberry Storm's touchscreen provides tactile feedback they raised my hopes and dashed them quite expertly (I explain further down). It turns out, the feedback they call "ClickThrough" was designed because RIM's co-CEO Mike Lazaridis said he can't type on a piece of glass. The short story is they use two different sensor layers. The top layer senses light touches for gestures like scrolling. The bottom layer senses heavier touches like pressing a button. When the user "clicks" ...
11.10.08 | Posted By jason kuhn

thinking with your hands; the spoon and fork Design, Good Idea, brain monkey, suggestion | (2)
The powerful link between creativity and play - Tim Brown
11.08.08 | Posted By Lee

Fords leaps into the Useless Eco Car field Design, brain monkey, opinion, review | (5)
Well... it is a start. At least American car companies are starting to take the idea of interactive displays more seriously. Nice to see focus, pun intended, shift from all interactivity through the Navigation system, to more "interactive" components throughout the rest of the car. Interesting to see if GM will counter with a new digital display.
11.07.08 | Posted By C Hill

Jquery wins everytime Good Idea, best practices, rant | (1)
I've decided. I'm done thinking about it. I'm done meeting new frameworks and blind dates with hand coded one off train wrecks and two birds are a stone. I made this decision weeks ago. Way back before Addy was even born (I'm an obsessed new dad) I made this decision on phixda's first birthday. Jk said "jquery is packaged with .net" I wish I could live in a world void if .net, but it is what it is. The nail that broke the camel's water was a instant message
11.04.08 | Posted By Bryan

Truth on a Discarded Sign brain monkey, impressions, opinion, outside | (0)
I found this photo in a Flickr collection recommended on www.cooper.com. I think this Haiku embodies the intent of the members of PhIxDA and the UX community at large. It earned a place on my wall, both at home and work. The Article: http://www.cooper.com/journal/2008/10/inspiration_from_flickr_groups.html The Collection: http://www.flickr.com/groups/inspirationboards/pool/ The Photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/publicdesigncenter/2344579422/in/pool-inspirationboards The Haiku: http://weblogs.media.mit.edu/SIMPLICITY/archives/000424.html
09.17.08 | Posted By jason kuhn

Google Audio Indexing Bad Idea, Good Idea | (0)
They did it again. Google has an experimental search feature on the labs section of the google site. Audio indexing currently searches through video and finds matches of words and phrases and provides shortcuts to jump straight to the result. Is this the next stenographer killer? Will closed-caption/subtitle programmers have to find a new job? Will the RIAA have a hissy fit when lyrics are ultimately indexed by someone they can't afford to sue? Time will tell!
09.11.08 | Posted By Bryan

Connect the Dots Good Idea, impressions, iphone, opinion, outside, review | (2)
Do you remember playing connect the dots in first or second grade? Drawing lines until you were delightfully rewarded with a crude drawing of a butterfly. Swype is like playing connect the dots with an onscreen keyboard. Swype is a gesture based text input method for mobile devices and tablet PCs using a stylus or fingertip, but there is no reason why it couldn't be used with a standard PC and a mouse. Continue Reading...
09.07.08 | Posted By C Hill

First timer Good Idea, brain monkey, impressions, iphone | (0)
This was written on chill's iPhone.
09.06.08 | Posted By Lee

Re-Usability Good Idea, best practices, brain monkey, impressions, opinion | (2)
I know this may not seem fitting for the context of this blog, but we do focus on usability and to me the usability of tangible things is something we can discuss as well. With that stated I finally have the chance to use the CA Redemption value seen on recyclable products. The "usability" aspect of glass bottles, aluminum cans and plastics is enormous. In its life time such things can go from a the siding of a house to a beverage can and finally into foil used for baking. I have always recycled but never have I wanted to ...

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