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User story: snap snap snap
Wall Street was already hustling and bustling at 7:30am on the Monday before Thanksgiving. However, amid the desk workers jostling their way into the skyscrapers, a few tourists posed for their photos in front of the New York Stock Exchange. Behin…
Spectacles as a gateway to novel visual conversations
Who would pay $130 to adorn their face with plastic spectacles of questionable aesthetic merit, capable of recording a mere ten second burst of video? You could be forgiven for dismissing Snap’s Spectacles as a symptom of an over-funded and over-h…
The creative experience of fake phone calls
These days iPhones have made everybody a photographer, which makes the ability to nail that shot – the one that captures the essence of a place and its inhabitants, all the more precious. Enter Jay Giampietro, a New Yorker who has perfected the…
Simplifying the flow of creativity in iOS
“For those, like me at times, who want more tools or are used to tools available in desktop software, iOS now enables easy access to the editing functionality of third party apps…What is particularly striking here is that the app functionali…
Mozilla’s Webmaker seeks to turn consumers into creators
With our ongoing series about improving the user experience of pivoting between consuming and creating digital content, I was intrigued by Mozilla’s launch of Webmaker, an Android app designed to simplify the process of creating and sharing web pa…
Inspiring new forms of creative expression through mobile devices
As part of our ongoing series about improving user experience in that crucial moment when transitioning between a mode of consumption and a mode of creativity, we made separate investigations into both ‘Consume’ and ‘Create’ as distinct themes. T…
Design principles for restoring focus to digital consumption
Our collaborative exploration of user experience at the intersection of consumption and creativity (described in this essay by Alex Guest and Marek Pawlowski) has deep roots. User behaviours associated with modes of both consumption and creativit…
Experimenting with Microsoft Hyperlapse
Brief thoughts on the user experience of Microsoft Hyperlapse:
While Hyperlapse corrects motion through a combination of image processing and hiding imperfections through speed, it does not solve the issue of cam…