His name is Ludwig Wendzich and he doesn't usually speak in the third person. He lives in Auckland, New Zealand after emigrating from South Africa when he was seven years old.
He has a passion for art and design. He is currently a web designer stroke developer who has a particular interest in designing the user experience; mixing usability and accessibility with aesthetics to maximize efficiency and enjoyment.
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A dude plays the piano on Chat Roulette and improvises lyrics based on the person on the other side. This is easily the best video of 2010 (so far). Do yourselves a favour and watch. (via regen)
So I’ve posted about my experiments with UI lately, specifically trying to bridge the gap between point-n-click, touch-based and Natural Human Interface (ie. Gestures, at the moment with my hand in the air, a la Project Natal.) Here’s a demo video of Weekly Retrospect working with iPinchMe, a Mac app that interprets gestures out of video received from your iSight feed
I’d like to thank the developer of iPinchMe, Andreas Pfadler, for, firstly, developing this app, and secondly, helping me write the script to get it to work. After some clarification from Andreas, this is the script that you use:
on handle_event(event_msg, state)
if event_msg is equal to "right" then
tell application "System Events" to key code 124
end if
if event_msg is equal to "left" then
tell application "System Events" to key code 123
end if
if event_msg is equal to "up" then
tell application "System Events" to key code 126
end if
if event_msg is equal to "down" then
tell application "System Events" to key code 125
end if
if event_msg is equal to "green" then
tell application "System Events" to key code 36
end if
if event_msg is equal to "blue" then
tell application "System Events" to key code 36
end if
end handle_event
After you’ve initialised iPinchMe, make sure Safari is active so it is sending the commands to the right window.
Another web designer flirts with the press. With the introduction of the iPad most people announced the death of print but lately those whose work is almost entirely digital have found in print something that cannot be found in digital design, tangibility.
Beautiful type, beautiful press. Educational and inspirational video.
State of the Internet, a motion type presentation by the Jess3 agency of mostly mind-blowing statistics from the big social networks during 2009.
The power of opening up data.
I love this miniature-making style of photography and to see it in motion is fantastic!
Brilliant game design from Shaun Inman. The level of “power-up” is not indicated by the size of the character or in fact anything to do with the character itself but instead affects the game-world. A higher level of “power-up” produces a higher bit world. 2bit, 4bit, 8bit and finally 16bit power-ups.
This is something I can’t wait for!
I think we need to change our expectations of a book. We now publish experiences (or apps, if you will) instead of books. Why have a textbook when you can have an app provides the same information through a better experience?
What happens with novels though? And other text-reliant experiences where the value is in the form just as much as the content.
Amazing video! Remake of Lady Gaga’s Bad Romance with a couple of Flip cams.
