brent phillips A few thoughts on the business of digital space…from my UI to yours…

Check it out here: http://www.msn.com/preview.

I particularly like the social feed feature…

This should be fun (and give the Wii – which I own – a run for its money). Gestures appear to be a rapidly growing new paradigm in UI control. The XBox is enabling full-body motion recognition plus speech/voice recognition. Check out the video to see it in action…

The mouse, keyboard, and (dare I say) remote control  have long dominated human computer interaction while the touch screen (i.e.  Surface) and tablet technology,  have emerged in recent years,  as more human-centric interactions. In a similar vain to Johnny Mnemonic or Minority Report, gestures and manipulation of virtual objects are quickly evolving as an effective means to interact [...]

this is brilliant. I posted a few weeks ago about tagging, which leverages mobile infrastructure, a camera phone, and special image patterns to provide users with additional context and/or experiences about whatever the ‘tag’ is associated with. Imagine coming at this from the user’s angle where wearable technology enabled you to interact with your environment through [...]

I worked in the mobile industry for a number of years and spent some time exploring location-based services and contactless transactions for mobile devices. I stumbled across this technology today from Microsoft that really wowed me. Tagging is not a new concept (we’re doing it more and more with our photos, documents, blog posts, and [...]

I have a background in web application development, so as a marketer, I am fascinated by the impact of web experiences on perception and brand afinity. A few years ago, I had developed a number of interface ‘builds’ in Flash that attempted to establish a mood, tone, and environment through which a user would navigate. I [...]

What can you do with hundreds – maybe thousands - of photos? Here are some fantastic advances in digital imaging that I’ve seen recently: the worldwide telescope project, deep zoom for Silverlight (see the Hard Rock memorabilia site), and the following photo tourism project…
 

I’m a bit very, very behind on this, but following up on my original post exploring the health benefits of the Wii system, it looks like Nintendo was working on this all along. Now your Wii is your personal coach. As Covert Bailey might say “any activity is better than no activity” – so combining [...]