UXbyDesign: A User Experience Blog by Bradley Hebdon

A Google Documentary

Posted on 05. May, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

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An excellent documentary that reveals where Google has come from and where they’re headed, as well as their general philosophies and methodologies. We also get to see the faces, personalities, and egos behind the search engine.
Whether you agree or disagree with Google’s approach to leveraging information, this is a must watch video.

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Protoshare: Collaborative Web-Based Interactive Wireframes and Prototypes

Posted on 05. May, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

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Protoshare is a web-based collaborative prototyping tool that helps teams quickly build, discuss, and refine clickable wireframes.
If you’ve ever been involved in the website design or creation process, you know that it can be a pain for developers, spec creators, and internal or external clients to communicate in an efficient manner. Protoshare’s nifty web-based application [...]

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Esquire Magazine blurs the distinction between Photo & Video

Posted on 04. May, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

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Captured on the Red One Digital Camera (that’s a frame resolution of 4096×2304, or 9.4 megapixels), the video-sourced cover image of Megan Fox, is thought to be a first in the magazine industry, challenging traditional SLR photography and the distinctions of photo vs video.
In terms of where this technology is best suited, I would imagine this approach makes [...]

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'Wearable Agrirobot' Power Suit Helps Aging Farm Workers

Posted on 28. Apr, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

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The Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology has developed an agriculture robot suit tailored to the 40% of Japan’s farm workers who are over the age of 65. Shigeki Toyama, a professor in robotics who developed the robotic harvesting and pruning suit, sought to make it industry and task-specific in order to generate cost savings [...]

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VisionAire Multi-touch Holograms

Posted on 27. Apr, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

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Obscura Digital has teamed their special multi-touch software with the Musion Eyeliner Hologram Projection System to produce an amazing interactive tool for presenters to use whereby they can manipulate 3-D holographic images in the air. Aptly called VisionAire, the single or multiple users can shrink, zoom and turn the images by simply moving their hands.
It’s [...]

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The iBar: The World's First Multi-touch Bar

Posted on 27. Apr, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

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The world’s first iBar was installed at 24, a high-end Soho nightclub in London, and is already a smashing success! The $147,000 table tops have sensors that detect what you’re drinking, so when you can’t remember how many something-tinis you had, the gizmo will figure it out for you by scanning the shape of your [...]

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The NFL Draft and the Fan War Rooms

Posted on 11. Apr, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

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UPDATE: Now featured on cnet.com! Read the article >
As part of this year’s NFL on-line Draft experience, we wanted to elevate the voice and passion of the fan. By mimicking the concept of the team’s Draft war rooms, we setup a community for the fans to talk about their teams’ draft needs and ultimately how [...]

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Skype for iPhone: An official App

Posted on 30. Mar, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

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Months after teasing the community at CES with an announcement of Skype’s native VoIP client for the iPhone, the free Skype for iPhone will finally be available to download from the iTunes App Store sometime on Tuesday
Skype’s screens are well organized and use the iPhone’s ability to add filters, for instance, to sort your contacts alphabetically, [...]

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Nintendo Wii 2.0: A mind-controlled console

Posted on 12. Mar, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

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Moving away from sloppy remotes, Nintendo Wii is entering the brainwave era with a slick mind-controlled console. At least this is the thrilling desire of hi-tech dreamers over at T3 Magazine who want to see jaws dropping and brain cells working their way through gaming.
The ground-breaking concept, part of the magazine’s future tech feature, introduces [...]

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Google Voice converts Voicemail to Text

Posted on 12. Mar, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

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Google Voice is incoming – and it could change the way you deal with your phone conversations forever.
With Google Voice, you get one number to access all your phone numbers, so even if you change your home phone or mobile, you’ll still be contactable. Not only that, the software acts as a messaging centre, storing [...]

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Choosing the Perfect Content Management System (CMS)

Posted on 06. Mar, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

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The actual search for the right Content Management System (CMS) for your organization (or yourself) can be overwhelming and daunting. What does help this process though, is knowing what you want, and just as importantly, what you don’t want. For example, I want something that’s going to be user-friendly, is low cost, is database driven, has [...]