by stoosepp | Aug 21, 2017 | Design, Education
What is Screen Real Estate? Whenever you visit a website, either on your phone, tablet or PC, there are certain things you’ll see first that grab your attention. Screen Real Estate refers to the space you as the designer have have to work in, especially related...
by stoosepp | Mar 27, 2017 | Design
In the last few weeks I’ve been trying to find evidence of why we use certain Virtual and Mixed Reality gestures. The taxonomy we have for Multi-touch gestures came out of R&D at Microsoft in the mid 2000s and you can easily read about the studies conducted there....
by stoosepp | Jan 29, 2017 | Design, Psychology
hand modelling by https://www.flickr.com/photos/nate/ As someone who studies cognitive science, reading every day about theories of memory, sensory input, and how our bodies and brains work together to formulate meaning in the world, I’ve had this nagging feeling over...
by stoosepp | Dec 27, 2016 | Design, Psychology
I’m a PhD Candidate, exploring the cognitive function of gestures in learning. A number of other subject areas orbit this one, including neuroscience, intelligence, human cognitive architecture but the main area of focus is Cognitive Load Theory. Cognitive Load Theory...
by stoosepp | Oct 31, 2016 | Design
Dear Macbook Pro, I know there’s a lot of external pressure on you to maintain a certain image. To look a certain way, to behave a certain way, and I had hoped in the year 2016 we’d be beyond this and the media would start to portray everyone how they are, not how...
by stoosepp | Oct 29, 2016 | Design
So I was playing with Xcode this morning and I found that the Touch Bar simulator will work with any app, not just the one you’re developing. Thoughts Obviously, almost every function on the Touch Bar replicates what can already be done in the app itself with a mouse...
