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Forty years of making pictures with computers

I started young, a nine-year-old kid teaching myself 6502 assembly language so that I could make the lights move on the KIM-1 microcomputer that my Dad brought home, a gift from a friend of his who worked at the CSIRO*... [read more]

research

A hallway conversation with Hiroshi Ishii and Lian Loke

When you have a moment to be advised by someone who leads the world in a field of enquiry, it's good to listen closely.

Strategy

A fireside chat

At this year's REMIX festival I had the pleasure of being interviewed by my dear friend Mark Pesce (alongside the marvellous Simone Chua from the light sculpture and immersive design studio Amigo and Amigo) on creative entrepreneurship – here is what I wish I'd known when I started out, and what

design

Personal, tangible, emotional

A Design Fiction: ABC Ticker is a news feed delivered with your morning coffee, personalised just for you and printed on your receipt. Made with wizard-of-oz prototyping and real test users.

collaboration

Space, Place and 場

Let’s start with 場. In architectural theory we say that a place is a space with a history. But what about the present? What do we call a place where history is being created? A rich place full of interaction and possibility, a place for emerging relationships?

prototypes

Imaginary tablets

For those of us interested in how humans interact with our machines, how socio-technical systems are made and how they make us, this is a precious moment. Tomorrow the probability waveforms collapse...

design

Reclaiming Affordances

The next time you're about to use the word “affordance”, please stop and check if the word “cue” would work instead. Because if it would, then you're doing it wrong. And here's why that matters.

Strategy

Prior Art

It was an intoxicating time before the first .com crash and we filled our days with experiments in virtual worlds, multiplayer gaming, videoconferencing and other exotic attempts to figure out what to do with the new 10Mb/sec (symmetrical!) connections. And of course, internet video.

design

Form factors

[From September 2009, four months before the iPad launch] – I’ve been obsessed lately with form factors for interactive devices. To the extent that I’ve been carrying around models of tablet computers made of foam core and acetate, just to get the feel...