Stanford’s Human-Computer Interaction Seminar on iTunes U
Wow, awesome. “36 lectures by people such as Bill Moggridge, Bill Buxton, Elizabeth Churchill, Paul Dourish and Donald Norman.”
Dramatic Features in Interaction Design
Talk by Chris Conley at the Interaction 08 conference exploring how elements of drama can be incorporated into interaction design. Case studies include the iPhone’s wiggling icons and Pixar’s story development process.
Videos of Interaction 08 Presentations
Fantastic! Putting People First has a roundup of presentation videos from the Interaction Design Association conference that just finished up.
Design Thinking & Innovation - Tim Brown
Talk by Tim Brown of IDEO given at MIT.
Eames Lounge Chair Debut in 1956 on NBC
Interview with Charles & Ray Eames on the Arlene Francis “Home” show broadcast on the NBC television network in 1956. Neat time-lapse depiction of assembling the chair towards the end!
22nd Amendment
The divided frame approach makes the placement of the type really hypnotic.
What is Design?
Entertaining video from Stanford Product Design student David Ngo
2012: Stories From the Near Future
Videos from a conference put on by The New Yorker. Talks and interviews with Malcolm Gladwell, James Surowiecki, Will Wright, Craig Newmark, Yves Nehar, Zaha Hadid and more…
Joost Self-invite
Instant invite for the Joost beta. Some interesting concepts and user interface things happening in Joost. In particular the chat/widgets functionality seems promising. Program highlights so far: Aardman Animations, bunch of National Geographic/travel.
Print Gocco - Video tutorial
Wow, really drives home how quick, easy and clean doing Gocco prints is. Now to find a cheap source of supplies…
Forget the film, watch the titles
Nice collection of movie title sequences.
nastuh | visual effects artist
Visual effects portfolio with an amazingly effective interface. As the reel plays you can move a “spotlight” over the frame to get a glimpse of the pre-production footage under the finished film. Click on the frame and pre/post footage plays side by side.
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YouTube - Ira Glass on Storytelling #1
This is so good. Don’t miss a single clip of this four part series.
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Rageh Inside Iran - Google Video
BBC’s Rageh Omaar embarks on a unique journey inside what he describes as one of the most misunderstood countries in the world, looking at the country through the eyes of people rarely heard - ordinary Iranians.
New York Times Video - Jazz and Art
NYT video on a new art inspired Jazz suite called “Portrait in Seven Shades” commissioned by Wynton Marsalis and composed by saxophonist Ted Nash. Each movement was inspired by a different 20th century painter.
YouTube - Giants steps solo by a Robot
From comments: “I flagged this video as inappropriate due to graphic violence. The way they butchered and mutilated Giant Steps made me ill. Couldn’t they program this fucking thing to Play some Kenny G and not disgrace the greatest jazz mind in history?”
Hacking Democracy (HBO Special)
Hour and a half documentary on electronic voting machines. Hopefully this will stay up on Google Video till I can watch it.
Weird Al Yankovic Performs “Eat It” On Japanese TV
Partly english, partly japanese lyrics! From the ever entertaining blog “TV in Japan”. The end is mind bendingly weird.
Pop!Tech Live - October 19th through 21st
“Pop!Tech’s mission is to inspire people everywhere to change the world by fostering visionary conversations about science, technology and the future of ideas”
YouTube - Ruben’s Tube
Sound visualization using fire. Via smadden.
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Designing Interactions - Video interview clips
Short clips of the video interviews from “Designing Interactions”
This is what TV is like. In Japan.
Part of an episode of Pythagoras Switch. Among other things includes a few Rube Goldberg machines and… the algorithm march! Totally awesome.
Perian - A swiss-army knife for QuickTime
“Perian is a free plugin that enables QuickTime to play almost every popular video format.”
A Year of YouTube Submissions
Ghostly information visualization showing the increasing number of videos posted on YouTube.com over the last year.
YouTube - OK Go - Here It Goes Again
An amazing sequel to OK Go’s first dancing video - this time with treadmills!
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.