Insight & Innovation: Design Research - Jan Chipchase
Video download of a talk by the Indiana Jones of the design research world, Jan Chipchase. He discusses his research topics and methods, why his work is valuable and how it’s used by designers at Nokia.
Audio recording of Ericka Hall’s presentation “Copy is Interface”
Excellent! It’s wonderful that the presentation audio is also available.
Audio: User-centered Design for Evolving Products
Podcast to go along with the slides of Ryan Freitas’ talk at the Future of Web Design conference.
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Jenny performs the strange voicemail message on Odeo
“Hack it up, Adam… Hack it real good.” Ha ha ha! Just as I remember it! Nice work Jenny!
IDEA Conference Blog - Audio and some slides
Awesome! Plenty to dig into here. The IDEA conference descibes itself as “a conference on designing complex information spaces of all kinds.”
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Odeo: TEDTalks
30 something talks from the TED conference. Excellent commute material! Thanks, Duv!
Odeo: Adam and Jenny read the comics
Wow, my new favorite podcast!
Flash MP3 Player
“This Flash MP3 Player supports streaming playback, RSS/XSPF playlists, various playmodes, color/size customization and a javascript API.”
Wake Up Everybody - Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes
“The world won’t get no better if we just let it be, nah-nah-nah-nah-naaah-na-naaaaaah”
Songs from Twigger’s Holiday
Great original music from cancelled Channel 101 show.
A couple oddball xmas albums (404 now sadly)
Drag Net’s “The Christmas Story” and The Roller Disco Orchestra’s “Non-Stop Christmas Disco”
Bollywood for the skeptical
Information about bollywood, language in India, short guide to hindi words and of course bollywood mp3’s
Hundreds of classic Bossa, Balanco & Samba LPs from Brazil
LP cover art and mp3 downloads from the 60’s. Wonderful niche collector site.
SyncOtunes
Nifty little app to synchronize your iTunes library between computers (windows or mac!)
Homebuilt Minty MP3 player
Some serious electronics chops required here.
Quirks and Quarks Archives
MP3 archives of great CBC Science and Tech show. Good iPod fodder for the commute to work.
Sharing iTunes over the net using ssh tunnels and rendezvous beacons
Also some good posts on Interaction Design.
The Freesound Project
Creative Commons licensed library of sounds from around the world.
Collection of digitized bootlegs, party mix tapes from the 80’s
The 80’s! So epic!
Kiddie Records - Site collecting and digitizing old 40’s and 50’s kids records
Sister site of basichip.com. Some classic big band / show band stuff. Nowadays it seems like kids media is overtly commercial. Shame.
Odd and hip vintage record albums posted as mp3’s on a weekly basis
Mostly 60’s stuff. Each week basic hip visitors vote for which album will be featured next week!
Javascript bookmarklet that will generate a m3u playlist from whatever mp3’s are linked on a page.
Looks for .mp3 extensions apparently.
AskMe thread on merging mp3s using PHP and cat
Easy to do, though you end with ID3 tags scattered about. Interesting possibilities for a funky web toy.
Hello
John is currently thinking and designing in San Francisco.
Projects
Message Muni
A simple and forgiving text messaging service for San Francisco Muni arrival times.
DSButtons.com
DS Buttons are an invitation to play.
Collaborators
Adam DuVander
of WifiPDX and Simplicity Rules fame.
Josh Heumann
Polaroid alchemist extraordinaire.
Sean Madden
The Pixelnomad.
Name Redacted
Qué mysterioso.
Tom Watson
Stays up late over at 110am.