Archive for September, 2008
Marshall McLuhan on the Global Village
I recently came across this famous forecast from Marshall McLuhan on what he coined the “Global Village”:
“The global village is a world in which you don’t necessarily have harmony, you have extreme concern with everybody else’s business. And much involvement in everybody else’s life. [...] And so the global village is as big as [...]
Touch screen predictive text entry - Swype & Shapewriter
2 companies have recently released software that aims to speed text entry on touch-screen devices. The prospect of this very promising, especially for mobile devices. Hopefully the accuracy is improved since a wrong suggestion can wipe away the perceived benefits of several right ones.
ShapeWriter™ makes mobile phones, tablet computers, game pads, and all other touch-screen [...]
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Instapaper
Axure Design Pattern Library v1.0 at A Clean Design
Gestalt Psychology theory - visual laws: Proximity, Similarity, etc.
Welcome to CellSpin - mobile blog posting aggregator
Welcome to CellSpin - mobile blog posting aggregator
SenseSurface
This is a great example of augmenting virtual environments with real physical controls. I am really interested to see computing technologies augment metaphors for real-world interaction with actual real-world interaction.
http://girtonlabs.googlepages.com/sensesurface
(those are real knobs magnetically attached to the screen)
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