User Experience.UX Design

Today, Adaptive Path's Aurora hit the bits (previously, airwaves). Most likely you've already seen the video. Though Apple and others have been testing the 3-D GUIs waters form some time now, with the "genie" icons rising when we "run" the My first impression recalled the same images that others recalled who I've talked with about it: Adaptive Path’s Aurora Article »

Physics, The Internet, and Culture, Oh My!

The Web (yes, it is a place) has expanded network consciousness. As life itself is now widely considered to be a network of networks, inter-connected by information feedback loops allowing co-evolution, will human society's impact on nature become more, well, natural? The internet-based hypertext web, so far, has proven a great journey for much of ... Read Full Can The Web Save Us? Article »

Of Bugs and Humbugs

We all have blind spots. Literally and figuratively. Blind spots are areas of reality we are not normally aware of. We have blind spots of vision (physiological), blind spots of perception (experiential and cultural), even of blind spots of themselves (psychological). Not to worry, though; it's only natural. It's because, dear reader, mother nature loves you... she doesn't want you to see everything at at once. Imagine how overwhelming it would be to take in all of the information surrounding you, ... Read Full Stumbling on Usability Article »