Interactive Design
Steve Jobs about Branding and Marketing
What is Applied Entertainment?
What if playing Angry Birds helped you keep your New Year’s resolutions? What if your World of Warcraft campaign got you to burn off a few extra pounds? What if you leveled up your Star Wars Jedi character by improving your focus with real life breathing exercises guided by Yoda in VR?
What if, when you got better at something in real life, your games were aware and your digital avatars improved as well? Would this feedback loop between you and your games drive personal growth and self-improvement?
The emerging field of Applied Entertainment says: Yes.
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On this day RIP Steve Jobs passed away on Oct 5 2011
Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Speech 2005
Welcome to Project Soli
Project Soli is developing a new interaction sensor using radar technology. The sensor can track sub-millimeter motions at high speed and accuracy. It fits onto a chip, can be produced at scale and built into small devices and everyday objects.
Happy New Year 2018!
The Web Is Dead. Long Live the Internet
Interesting read from The Great Web Design Crisis of 2017 by Joel Hladecek , September 27, 2016
High-Speed Robots | Amazon
High-Speed Robots Part 1:
Meet BettyBot in “Human Exclusion Zone” Warehouses – The Window
Get a bots’-eye view of the “human exclusion zone” in a massive warehouse where an army of high-tech robots finds and fulfills up to 30,000 orders a day.
High-Speed Robots Part 2:
Kiva Robots in the Workplace & in our E-commerce Economy – The Window
Follow a robot as it works its day job—transforming the world of e-commerce by hustling packages around the giant warehouses that propel the modern economy. New robot minions: Welcome to the team.
Merry Christmas 2014
For You & Yours
The Do Not Destroy Team
MetaTalk: Tim Smith
MetaTalk: Tim Smith (full) from MetaDesign on Vimeo.
In a mobile-obsessed world of BYODs, implementing a mobile first strategy is a direction many brands consider. In his recent MetaTalk Mobile First: Designing and Developing New Digital Experiences, Applied Design Group Principal Tim Smith covers the basics on why mobile matters, and why responsive design is only a small part of the answer.