STUDIO NOTES

Musings on design matters, technology and culture

 

Monthly Archive for July, 2009

Party Like It’s 1999 – Why Mobile is the New Internet

In 1999 the human population surpassed six billion, Lance Armstrong won his first Tour de France, The Matrix came out and the dot-com bubble was approaching its climax.
The Internet began to take off several years earlier with the introduction of Mosaic, the first Web browser with mass appeal. In 1994, the same founders formed a [...]

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The Human-Tech Experiment ;)

What do you get when you give lab rats a strong dose of technology? Do they become anxious? Addicted? Neurotic? Actually, it’s an impossible experiment that we’ll have to just work out on ourselves this time (and are doing so at increasing speed). Will technology end up making us sick?
In the latest controversy over the [...]

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31 Flavors – Designing for iPhone, Android and Blackberry Platforms

A client of mine who wants to make aggressive headway into the mobile space has asked me to make three versions of their current iPhone 2.0 app that includes an upgrade to iPhone 3.0, a never-launched version for Google Android and another one for Blackberry devices (Palm Pre version to come later). It’s my job [...]

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