Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

New Ofcom research reveals the extent to which the UK ha... to smartphones, with people confessing to using them eve... dining table to the bathroom and bedroom.
Over a quarter of adults (27 per cent) and almost half o ...
Most (59 per cent) have acquir

I was recently in a discussion where one person quoted f... conference that as a UX designer you should always offer... desktop" route on a mobile website because users can't a... they want on a mobile. If this sounds a common problem t... somewhere i

Today’s relentless email flood could steer you away fr... and even out of work entirely if you don’t learn defen... That sounds obvious until you hear that a British study ... all information workers respond to an e-mail within 60 m... That’s no

Marion Underwood calls her academic study, “The Blackb... title that would work equally well is “Panopticon, Jr.... four years, the University of Texas-Dallas developmental... professor has essentially wire-tapped 175 Texas teens, ... text messag

The Pentagon has put in an order for prototype contact l... users a much wider field of vision.
The lenses are designed to be paired with compact heads ...
Much bulkier HUDs are already deployed by the US Army an ...

These drawings date from 1982 (thirty years ago). Alan K... the Chief Scientist at Atari and he asked me to work wit... the work I started at Encyclopedia Britannica on the ide... Encyclopedia. We came up with these scenarios of how the...
The most in

These drawings date from 1982 (thirty years ago). Alan K... the Chief Scientist at Atari and he asked me to work wit... the work I started at Encyclopedia Britannica on the ide... Encyclopedia. We came up with these scenarios of how the...
The most in

if user-centred design principles are missing from proje... because designers don’t want them there in the first place

Thanks for checking out face.com. We've opened up our AP...
In a nutshell:
We offer services for detecting, recognizing, and ta ...
Face.com's services are offered for FREE with rate l ...
... ou to, say, recognize Facebook users in Flickr photos

STOPPED CLOCK ILLUSION

Clear is hands-down worth picking up if you’re interes... and have any need for a simple list-making-and-completin... beyond its immediate worth, I think that it could signal...
It’s roughly five years into the multitouch revolution ...
I think tha

We already know Facebook is harder to resist than cigare... So it's not all that surprising that Facebook is enjoyab... enjoyable! But like an addictive drug, the results sugge... network might have a sinister effect: Facebook makes you...
That's why

Microsoft is under fire this week over a patent it was g... dubbed the "avoid ghetto" feature for GPS devices. The n... to help pedestrians avoid unsafe neighborhoods, bad weat... terrain by taking information from maps, weather reports...
The word "g

This page is an annotated visual gallery of some timeline designs from their origin to today.

This page is an annotated visual gallery of some timeline designs from their origin to today.

When working on a web application that involves a lot of... the first things you learn is to stop tying your data to... too easy to create JavaScript applications that end up a... jQuery selectors and callbacks, all trying frantically t...
With Backbo

Some of the threats for the coming year are lower-tech -... stickers placed over the QR codes used by firms to allow...
QR codes typically appear on posters. Once scanned with ...
Train stations, for example, use QR codes to allow passe ...
But cybercr

Boxie, a robot created at MIT Media Lab, relies on adora... artificial intelligence to meet its goals.
Cuteness is one of the most powerful forces on earth. It ...

Boxie, a robot created at MIT Media Lab, relies on adora... artificial intelligence to meet its goals.
Cuteness is one of the most powerful forces on earth. It ...

Why did we build Handy Elephant?
Individuals and businesses devote increasing amounts of ...
Yet, plenty of time is wasted, as they do not know which ...

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Remove birds from poetry, Aldous Huxley once said, and w... cast aside half of the English canon.
Now, the impact of birdsong on our creativity and on our ...
The study will examine the psychological impact of being ...

Google just released Google Currents (what's up with the... supposed to be "kind of" like Flipboard, except that it ...
Google also released an update to Google Maps some weeks ...
Google, here is the problem: If you cannot make the UI o ...

The maker of the smartphone software that triggered a sn... called to account by a US Senator.
Senator Al Franken has written to Carrier IQ asking it t ...
Mr Eckhart claimed Carrier IQ software could log everyth ...
Carrier IQ said its software helped d

We might not like to admit it but deception is deeply en...
To fill the gap, darkpatterns.org was created in August ...
If we put aside our moral quibbles let’s put ourselves ...
Let’s continue a while as evil web designers: perhaps ...
... ominent

So, here's a Vision Of The Future that's popular right now.
It's a lot of this sort of thing.
As it happens, designing Future Interfaces For The Futur ...
My problem is the opposite, really — this vision, from ...
... or anything. I just hope to suggest

Time zones sometimes seem positively eccentric, affected... political, geographical and social changes in the real w...
But as irregular as they are, if you want to divide the ...
Our science reporter Rebecca Morelle has been finding ou ...

Diffusion of Innovations is a theory that seeks to expla... what rate new ideas and technology spread through cultur... a professor of rural sociology, popularized the theory i... Diffusion of Innovations. He said diffusion is the proce... innovation