Article archive - page 2

• The role of context on ambient technologies

  Tuesday, January 20th 2015

  Ambient technologies are very hard to design well. A blinking light for a new email is novel for a few minutes before quickly becoming a distraction. This essay provides a model for thinking about ambient technologies and how a designer may maximise their use.

  A 24 minute read (6.4k words)

• Building an information radiator

  Tuesday, December 16th 2014

  "Information Radiators" - devices that use physical means to relay encoded information are great projects if you want to explore IoT. This post provides a how to example.

  A 1 minute read (213 words)

• A Device API safari

  Sunday, May 4th 2014

  There are many interesting things to be found in the Device API. This talk went on a journey to see what we could find worth playing with.

  A 1 minute read (244 words)

• Book launch of Jump Start Responsive Design

  Wednesday, March 20th 2013

  Working on my first book was quite good fun, though hard work, and today after all of that effort it's finally released.

  A 1 minute read (140 words)

• The ClickFail of Australian Retail.

  Tuesday, November 20th 2012

  The coming of age of online retail in Australia crashed and burned in Australia tonight due to lack of preparation and hubris. It could have been so different.

  A 5 minute read (1.4k words)

• Datatium - a material to create responsive experiences

  Friday, October 19th 2012

  Device responsive design is only one part of context. These are the sketch notes that underpinned a talk at WDS2012 on the wider aspects of using data in responsive design approaches.

  A 23 minute read (6.0k words)

• Web Facilitated Play in the Real World

  Wednesday, July 25th 2012

  How can physical interaction with digital media augment the experience of both and what part does the web have to play in this space?

  A 6 minute read (1.7k words)

• Is this the end of Windows Server?

  Sunday, June 10th 2012

  A sacred cow has been bumped off over at Micrsoft with Linux now available in Azure instances. This is a major change in the server OS world.

  A 4 minute read (1.1k words)

• Humanising the Internet of Things

  Friday, February 24th 2012

  Just making your device "smart" isn't enough - it needs to also be usable. The human aspects of IoT are consistently forgotten in this new interaction space.

  A 9 minute read (2.3k words)

• Towards a sensor commons

  Tuesday, December 20th 2011

  A quiet revolution is taking place in the Internet of Things world and it isn't one being orchestrated top down by the companies who want to Internet enable everything and make smart cities.

  A 13 minute read (3.4k words)