FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo Adam – VFX in the real-time short filmunity3d.com - Zdravko Pavlov We are continuing our series of blog posts from last year, this time featuring a technical, behind-the-scenes glimpse of how the visual effects in …
The Secret To Learning New Skills Twice As Fastfastcoexist.com - Charlie Sorrel Acquiring new motor skills requires repetition, but iterative repetition is much more effective than just doing the same thing over and over. A new …
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The Big List: 50 VR Games We Can’t Wait To Play In 2017uploadvr.com - Charles Singletary Last year, we rounded off a list of 35 VR games we couldn’t have to play in 2016. We’ve had some great times playing great games, and last week we …
This Reference Chart Covers the Basics of Soldering At a GlanceLifehacker - Eric Ravenscraft Soldering electronics is a delicate art. If you’re just getting started learning how to solder, this handy reference chart can help you spot some …
Visualising UI Solutions for Our Mixed Reality Future – Road to VRroadtovr.com - Road to VR Augmented and Mixed Reality technologies are rapidly evolving, with consumer devices on the horizon. But how will people interact with their new …
Play button Post-VR Sadness: Is Virtual Reality Dissociating People From Reality?The Atlantic - Rebecca SearlesAfter exploring a virtual world, some people can’t shake the sense that the actual world isn’t real, either. When Tobias van Schneider slips on a virtual reality headset to play Google’s Tilt Brush, he
How To Test Products Like A GooglerFast Company - Rich BellisAn insider look at how user feedback shaped Google Hangouts (and three other products) in the months before launching. To build great products, you need input from the people and organizations that are
VR accessibilitygamasutra.com The following blog post, unless otherwise noted, was written by a member of Gamasutra’s community. The thoughts and opinions expressed are those of …
Beyond Flatland: User Interface Design for VRleapmotion.com - Leap Motion Explorations in VR Design is a journey through the bleeding edge of VR design – from architecting a space and designing groundbreaking interactions …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo Building Jarvisfacebook.com - Mark Zuckerberg My personal challenge for 2016 was to build a simple AI -- like Jarvis in Iron Man. Now that it's working and the challenge is almost over, I wrote …
UX Design No-UI: How to Build Transparent Interactioninteraction-design.org Here, we will explore and teach you about the incredible user experience opportunities which you can take advantage of when designing for interaction …
Lighthouses Lighthouse - Trammell Hudson's Projectstrmm.net The HTC Vive uses a really innovative way to add 3D pose estimation and position sensing to their VR experience. The "Lighthouse" design works like …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo Revealed: Homebrew Controller Working in Steam VRhackaday.com - Donald Papp [Florian] has been putting a lot of work into VR controllers that can be used without interfering with a regular mouse + keyboard combination, and …
'Jack Into' A Parisian VR Arcade for $10 An Hour - VICEVICE - Ben SullivanThe dedicated virtual reality facility provides 12 VR pods for 'individual experiences' and has a rooftop open bar. A beloved author of mine, M. John Harrison, called them 'twinks'. Addicts, if you will,
How Stories Solved Instagram’s Biggest Threat: Self-Conscious UsersFast Company - Cliff KuangLikes make users self-conscious in a way that has distorted Instagram’s mission. Here, an exclusive look at how Stories was designed to fix that. Robby Stein remembers when Kevin Systrom was just another
NASA's newly-launched Giphy and Pinterest pages are out of this worldTNW - Bryan ClarkWhen Neil Armstrong became the first man to step foot on the moon in 1969, I doubt he gave much thought to the dank memes that would one day come of it. I also doubt he knew what ‘dank’ or ‘meme’ meant,
Play button Smarten Up a Cheap Projector With a Raspberry PiLifehacker - Thorin Klosowski Ever wished you had a portable projector that was already loaded up with software so you could stream movies? YouTuber Novaspirit Tech wanted just …
Play button This VR Headset Has A Secret Weapon: A 3D ScannerFast Company - Katharine SchwabHow do you turn physical spaces into digital ones? That’s a question that the three-year-old startup Occipital is trying to answer with products that range from its successful Structure Sensor, which 3D
Creative Commons Attribution User Experience and Experience Designinteraction-design.org - by Jonas Lowgren, John M. Carroll, Marc Hassenzahl, Thomas Erickson, Alan Blackwell, Kees Overbeeke, Caroline Hummels, Robert Spence, Mark Apperley, Karen Holtzblatt, Hugh R. Beyer, Jesper Kjeldskov, Margaret M. Burnett, Christopher Scaffidi, Dag Svanaes, Kristina Hook, Alistair G. Sutcliffe, Albrecht Schmidt, Gilbert Cockton, Victor Kaptelinin, Clayton M. Christensen, Eric von Hippel, Noam Tractinsky, Ben Challis, Richard Shusterman, William Hudson, Steve Mann, Brian Whitworth, Adnan Ahmad, Clarisse Sieckenius de Souza, Paul A. Fishwick, Jonathan Grudin, Steven Poltrock, Shaun Gallagher, Alan J. Dix, Lene Nielsen, Dave Randall, Mark Rouncefield, Doug A. Bowman, Ned Kock, Paul Cairns, Stephen Few, Kerstin Dautenhahn, Fabio Paterno, Dianne Cyr, Richard Mortier, Hamed Haddadi, Tristan Henderson, Derek McAuley, Jon Crowcroft, Andy Crabtree, Constantine Stephanidis, Elisa Giaccardi, Pieter Stappers and Ann Blandford I open my eyes. Lush light floods the room, birds chatter. It is only 6:30 o'clock in the morning, but I feel well-rested and alive; time to get up, …
Self-Control Is Just Empathy With Your Future SelfThe Atlantic - Ed YongThe same part of the brain that allows us to step into the shoes of others also helps us restrain ourselves. You’ve likely seen the video before: a stream of kids, confronted with a single, alluring marshmallow.
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Signifiers and Affordances for Chatbots: How to hack the systemuxdesign.cc - Joe Toscano⚡️ There aren’t a lot of signifiers or affordances within a chatbot. The only elements you have to work with are words, buttons and a small repertoire …
How Apple Is Giving Design A Bad NameFast Company - Don Norman and Bruce TognazziniFor years, Apple followed user-centered design principles. Then something went wrong. Once upon a time, Apple was known for designing easy-to-use, easy-to-understand products. It was a champion of the
Sean Blakeseanblake.me I’m a designer with 10 years of experience living in San Francisco. Front-end development, responsive framework, CSS/SASS, HTML/HAML, and Ruby on …
Virtual Reality: How Tech Is Changing the Way You Buy and Sell a HomeNerdWallet - Michael Burge Virtual reality is no longer associated with just gaming. The real estate industry is adopting this evolving technology to help you buy and sell your …
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Interaction Design Getting into the Mobile App User’s Mind – User Research for Mobile Applicationsinteraction-design.org It’s well understood that user research is what makes for the best user experiences but what are the right user research techniques for mobile apps? …
A future without screensmedium.com - Shaun Roncken It’s unfortunate to think, but you probably know the nooks and crannies of Facebook better than your childhood bedroom. Our adoption of technology …
