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21 Aug Screen Real Estate for Online Learning

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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...

27 Mar Toward User Interface and Experience Guidelines for Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Realities

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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...

29 Jan Primary Design: User Experience and Product Design based on Evolutionary Psychology

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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...

27 Dec The Touch Bar, Cognitive Load and Usability.

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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...

31 Oct A Macbook Pro Intervention

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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...

29 Oct Trying out the new Macbook Pro Touch Bar in Xcode 8.1 Simulator

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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. [embed]https://youtu.be/jJvwkrY7BLs[/embed] Thoughts Obviously, almost every function...

03 Aug Designing for the Dark

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I used to love Apple’s products. Like, really love. Now it seems that much of the industrial design in their newer products prioritize minimalist aesthetic beauty, and less and less to...

27 Mar A Design Exploration of 3D Touch: Feedback

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Part I of this article looked at various affordances and conventions surrounding 3D Touch, such has how to visually represent depth and the ability for the user to differentiate between...

07 Dec Do eReaders really need Touch Screens?

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Kindles are great little eReaders. The battery lasts a a month and you can read all the books youwant on it. After traveling to multiple countries and living abroad with...

27 Oct Weighing Fruit with 3D Touch

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https://youtu.be/SytXwjGGikA A couple of days ago, FlexMonkey’s work on Plum-O-Meter made the rounds, so I need to first give a shout out to him and his work. Thanks! http://flexmonkey.blogspot.co.uk/ So I took...