History of the home PC/Apple GUI
This was a great find by DJ Greg Wilson: a series of short films about how all creation is plagiarism. Here’s the 3rd of 3 (the 4th is coming autumn 2011) which focuses on the creation of the Graphical User Interface (GUI) of the modern-day home PC. Interestingly it was of course Apple who successfully brought [...]
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Digital Strategy in 2011
The start of a new year heralds a series of articles about predictions for digital trends 1, 2, 3 for the year ahead, but instead I thought I would summarise where I believe we are after the year gone by. It’s all too easy to start by thinking by platform. For example the last 5 [...]
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Font of No Knowledge
Interesting studies in the media at the moment are at odds with the traditional User Experience discipline of ensuring your font choice is a nice expected clear commonly used font. This from Seed Magazine: Last week, science writer and editor Christian Jarrett blogged about a new study, published this month in Cognition. The researchers, led by Connor Diemand-Yauman, [...]
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