Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

Virtual reality has made exciting progress over the past several years. However, developing for VR still requires expensive, specialized hardware. Thinking about how to make VR accessible to more people, a group of VR enthusiasts at Google ...

The first reaction of many people to uncertain math is to use the same techniques as for certain math. They would either imagine each unknown as an exact mean, or take ‘worst case’ and ‘best case’ scenarios and multiply each one. Th...

adding images into QR Codes

But keyboards may have an impact on the emotional associations we have with words as well. It has been found that words consisting of a higher proportion of letters from the right-hand side of a QWERTY keyboard – those from “y”, “h⮮.

The inaugural address contains the first words uttered b... It is an untarnished moment during which the American le... presidential tone, inspire a country, put an election to...
An examination of the facial expressions of the last six ...
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No UI is the New UI
On the rise of UI-less apps and why you should
care about them as a designer.

No UI is the New UI
On the rise of UI-less apps and why you should
care about them as a designer.

Harry Potter, Elon Musk, Beyoncé, Super Mario and Vladimir Putin.

These are just some of the millions of artificial intelligence (AI) personas you can talk to on Character.ai - a popular platform where anyone can create chatbots based on ...

With more than 10 million users, the Scratch online community is the largest online community where kids learn to program. Since it was created, a central goal of the community has been to promote “remixing” — the reworking and re...

mother knows everything

Sense Mother is at the head of a family of small connected sensors that blend into your daily life to make it serene, healthy and pleasurable.

The first time Steve Saylor fired up the hotly-anticipated new game The Last of Us Part II, he burst into tears.

"Y'all don't even know how much..." he says between sobs in his video of the moment, which has now had nearly half a million v...

The internet has spawned subtle forms of influence that can flip elections and manipulate everything we say, think and do

A newly published study from Oxford’s Jon Penney provides empirical evidence for a key argument long made by privacy advocates: that the mere existence of a surveillance state breeds fear and conformity and stifles free expression. Report...

The illusions selected for this collection generally sha...
properties. First, they illustrate phenomena that h ...
implications for the study and practice of Computer ...
Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). Second, they have ...
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How we interpret our feelings depends on where and how w... says professor Lisa Feldman Barrett - and not understand... our lives harder

Not content with synchronizing your phones to make one g... Researchers at the Tokyo University of Technology have d... an interface that lets you connect multiple devices toge... giant disjointed display. Although the technology behind... remains a m

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People like lists of things. They're everywhere on the i... any subject matter you can think of, odds are there's a ... Nowhere is safe. Even here, on the Guardian Science sect... most popular articles in recent months is a list. But wh... popular? We

One thing several people have asked for in recent months... roundup of all Psion pocket computers and software, past... I did this in Palmtop magazine (issue 20, backissues sti... republished here in fairly gory detail, covering even Da... beginnings

30 excellent free ux tools
Posted: February 28, 2011 | Author: usabilitygal | Filed ...
uxforthemasses.com have created a great list of 25 free ...
Prototyping tools
... Total validator

Did you know the emoticon is almost 30 years old? Twenty...
Fast-forward and the simple smiley has evolved — some ...
To mark this anniversary, we’ve taken an abridged look ...
1. The Olden Days
... Thumbnail image courtesy of Laihiuyeung Ryanne

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

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

What does a user want? Designing for needs. Putting the ... web content accessible to more people and more kinds of ... Designing and testing usable interfaces. Use-case models... Scenario development, wireframes. Usability testing on t... the not so

Chris Dancy records nearly every detail of his life. So ... magazine has dubbed him “the Quantified Man”. Using ... sensors, mobile devices and ‘low friction’ tracking ... seamlessly building a digital archive of his entire bein...
Dancy consi

A Passenger Airplane Basically Flew Upside Down Because ... (Updated)Update: Thanks to Gizmodo reader, Randy, we hav... on how this happened. As you can see in that picture, th... the cockpit door lock switch are no more than 10cm apart... door (the s

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

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