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Comment on SXSW Future15 Convergence by Karlyn Neel

Karlyn Neel — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 18:14:24 +0000

One of my favorite panels/sessions from SXSW, thank you! Also, will you be posting slides from your presentation?

Comment on SXSW Future15 Convergence by colombene

colombene — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 09:05:22 +0000

Thanks very much!
D-pad is indeed tricky to design for and if you are used to designing for the web it takes a completely different logic. Hm, it might deserve some links and diagrams and a full blog post. I had never found much material on the web on it, but with Google now in the game I just found this TV design doc: http://code.google.com/tv/web/docs/design_for_tv.html

You can also check out how their version of YouTube leanback differs from the regular web version to see how a complex webby interface would have to simplify for up/down/left/right navigation. Moving through adjacent arrays is a common good approach…
http://www.youtube.com/t/leanback

As you might have guessed from the talk, I’d prefer a mobile controller from a usability perspective. The challenge is, you have to be able to get the 2 screens to talk to each other – so it depends on your context.

Comment on SXSW Future15 Convergence by Cory Shaw

Cory Shaw — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 18:21:52 +0000

I really enjoyed your talk, short but very insightful. Would love to connect further and talk tech tv, it’s a new field for me with my fun side project crowdtube.tv.

I’m curious if you know of any tricks/tips for developing for d-pad controllers. I’m debating on doing that or creating a mobile web based controller. Thoughts?

Comment on SXSW 2010 by beneluxe » Blog Archive » Revisiting Scifi, pt. 1

beneluxe » Blog Archive » Revisiting Scifi, pt. 1 — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 17:21:48 +0000

[...] Beyond Scifi: Design For Surfaces and Big Screens touched on a few different ideas in contextualizing futuristic UI design for real world usage with current technology. Many of the new platforms we’re using like touch tables, touch walls, and interactive TVs, seem straight out of sci-fi movies. However, in movies they’re often used as cinematic props or storytelling devices. Things that blow us away at the theater might actually be boring or frustrating for an actual user. So I pulled out some common challenge areas and decision points that can keep futuristic platforms feeling cool and futuristic for users. The key areas I’ll be posting blog articles about are: [...]

Comment on 70s children’s psychedelia by K. Kuzma

K. Kuzma — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 03:34:20 +0000

Man, the ’70s reveled in that Victorian Revival. Stained glass, wicker, ferns and the bathrooms hung with sepia toned photos of women or children standing naked in wash basins.

The ’30s cartoon (Merry Melody?) of skeletons dancing to Cab Calloway’s “Minnie The Moocher” was shown occasionally on TV in the ’70s and it creeped me out. I think it was drawn over live shots of dancers. Their movement was uncannily lifelike.

Kevin

Comment on Encounter by Eddie Sotto

Eddie Sotto — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:44:56 +0000

Thank you for the kind words on the Encounter project. It was probably the most fun I had at Disney. Readers may be interested in our latest project that follows the same immersive level of detail. It’s featured with a link on the front page of our studio site. BTW- I left Disney ten years ago.

We evolved into the latin 70′s with this one. did custom chairs and even bottles of tequila that fit on them.
http://www.riverarestaurant.com