Today’s new UseIt.com article, “World’s Best Headlines: BBC News” is an article after my own heart: a glowing review of BBC News. More specifically, it’s about the concisely written, yet richly explanatory headlines on the BBC News website.
I am so excited to see this wonderful review because for a few years, I was absolutely obsessed [...]
Archive for April, 2009
BBC News on UseIt.com
Monday, Apr 27th, 2009 by Allison Walker | 0 Comments
Filed under: Art & Culture, Technology, UX/IA/IxD | Tags: ballet, BBC, Dance, Jakob Nielsen, usability, Useit.com
Filed under: Art & Culture, Technology, UX/IA/IxD | Tags: ballet, BBC, Dance, Jakob Nielsen, usability, Useit.com
Cities that shape
Monday, Apr 13th, 2009 by Allison Walker | 0 Comments
Filed under: Art & Culture, Urban Space | Tags: Bong Joon-Ho, Guy Debord, information visualization, Leos Carax, mapping, Michel Gondry, Theory of the Dérive, Tokyo!
Filed under: Art & Culture, Urban Space | Tags: Bong Joon-Ho, Guy Debord, information visualization, Leos Carax, mapping, Michel Gondry, Theory of the Dérive, Tokyo!
Last Friday I saw the movie Tokyo!, directed by Michel Gondry, Leos Carax, and Bong Joon-Ho. It asks the question, do we define our cities, or do they define us?
Today, while checking my RSS feeds, I eventually saw something related to this idea. “Theory of the Dérive”, by Guy Debord:
One of the basic situationist practices [...]
Gesture interfaces to getting a (fake) job - Part 2
Wednesday, Apr 8th, 2009 by Allison Walker | 0 Comments
Filed under: Technology, UX/IA/IxD | Tags: 3-D, choreographer, dancer, gesture, interaction, movement, School of Perpetual Training, space
Filed under: Technology, UX/IA/IxD | Tags: 3-D, choreographer, dancer, gesture, interaction, movement, School of Perpetual Training, space
I went to the Pace show last night and I tried out the School of Perpetual Training installation. My thoughts…
Actually, I think it’s rather difficult to design an interface using the whole body or using gestures in 3-D space. As I was interacting with the game, I found that I did not know which way [...]
Using a gesture control interface to get a (fake?) job
Turbulence@PaceDigitalGallery is presenting 3 performances this month. One of them, School of Perpetual Training is an “edutainment” website that uses your web cam and an avatar to guide you through training exercises, so that you can get a new job.
I don’t have a web cam so I wasn’t able to try it out. However, I [...]
I Met The Walrus - Manhattan Short Film Festival
Sunday, Apr 5th, 2009 by Allison Walker | 0 Comments
Filed under: Creativity, People, Technology | Tags: graphic design, John Lennon, Manhattan Short Film Festival
Filed under: Creativity, People, Technology | Tags: graphic design, John Lennon, Manhattan Short Film Festival
This week’s Manhattan Short Film Festival film, is “I Met The Walrus”. It’s an interview with John Lennon, portrayed graphically. I really like the interpretation the artist has with the graphics, sometimes being extremely literal but still funny. Click the image above, and head off on their site.
What’s important
Wednesday, Apr 1st, 2009 by Allison Walker | 0 Comments
Filed under: General Discussion, Urban Space
Filed under: General Discussion, Urban Space
Last Sunday our graphic design homework was to create some type of visual representation of our possessions, splitting them into things we care about and things we don’t care about. When I imagined this homework, I could not think of excluding the things that I used to own, very recently, in Houston. I actually didn’t [...]
Thoughts about being a SharePoint Administrator
Wednesday, Apr 1st, 2009 by Allison Walker | 0 Comments
Filed under: Technology | Tags: collaboration, document management, project, SharePoint
Filed under: Technology | Tags: collaboration, document management, project, SharePoint
In addition to being the new WordPress administrator, I’m also the new SharePoint admin for our project. I recently just got “Full Access” control over the current team site, but before I did I’ve been creating a demo site using my My Site. (And, actually, even if I did have access to the other site, [...]