Why Flappy Birds had to die: “it happened to become an addictive product”
I missed the whole Flappy Birds phenomenon; I played Angry Birds for a while but gave it up, and now pretty much the only games I ever play
“many individuals had died clutching identity cards and mobile phones”
We often talk about our cellphones feeling like extensions of ourselves, and usually we mean that rather casually. However, as I argue in my book, this is one
“if there is no blood, it can likely wait:” lessons from six weeks without a phone
Author and education researcher Julianne Wurm writes about what she learned from giving up her phone during a 6-week trip in Asia. She had her laptop and iPad (both? really?),
“In order to monetize your work, you need to monetize your audience, and figure out who you can sell them to”
This is an Onion parody, but who hasn't thought about how much money they could make selling out their user base?
Design, distraction, and doctor-patient relationships
Electronic health records (EHRs) have been around for a few years. You've probably seen them, or at least seen a doctor access them: at my doctor's office every
“what would happen if we… tried to be more human in this age of digital technology?”
Toby Daniels, the CEO of Crowdcentric, makes the case for building purpose into every action: Our interactions are becoming more robotic and stiff. Our social connections have evolved into
“This is the next challenge in designing UIs: making them recognize and adjust to the contours of my attention”
Vivek Haldar wants a user interface that reflects "the contours of... attention," a phrase that I quite like: What was I doing? What do I need to do
Taking contemplative computing to Buddhist monastics
Last week I was in New York for the launch of J. Walter Thompson's new report on consumer trends, and while I was on the East Coast I
I’ve 3D printed a pair of sunglasses that instagrams a selfie when you need to buy teabags
Actually I've just been playing with What the F*** is my Wearables Strategy. We'll be millionaries in 12 months.
“develop and use a new form of technology: technology that doesn’t exploit us, but that does support us”
Because I can't cover the whole world, I just found out about Offtime, a project out of Berlin to develop an app to manage calls, texts, etc. while