Musicovery is a customized webradio service that lets users search for music not just by genres, but by mood as well. Are you looking for energetic, calm, positive or dark music? Following Musicovery’s idea, I Feel… city guides let users add and recommend places and things to do in a city by mood. Where do [...]
I wrote a new post about augmented reality (AR) – the combination of real world and computer-generated data – in Organic’s Three Minds blog today. There are some very interesting mobile AR applications, like Wikitude for the G1 phone, already available, and Nokia’s launching a similar concept called Point and Find soon. Read the whole [...]
At the Nokia World event in Barcelona, Nokia today unveiled the new N97 ‘mobile computer’, as the company calls it. The feature list of the device, which combines a touchscreen and a QWERTY keybord, easily tops the iPhone’s features, with 32 Gb of inbuilt memory (expandable up to 48 Gb), 5 megapixel camera capable of [...]
Crayon Physics is quite an ingenious little video game, in which the player guides a ball to a goal point, not by directly controlling the ball, but by drawing shapes (for example, ramps that allow the ball to roll from one platform to another, or objects that block and “guide” the ball) with the mouse, [...]
As an answer to Mr. Tweet‘s Twitter-celebrity-lists I think, TwiTip’s Darren Rowse has asked people to construct their own Top 10 Must Follow lists as it relates to their own niche. I just posted mine on the site, and here it is too – my top 10 of UXD/IA/IxD people and web strategists (in no [...]
The concept of the home of the future, or a ‘smart home’, has been explored since at least the early 20th century. In a smart home, the residents would be able to control everything from lighting and heating to security, audio and video systems by the touch of a button, or perhaps just by entering [...]
Conceptology is the personal blog of Karri Ojanen, an interaction design leader, usability consultant, creative director and digital marketing strategist. The posts cover a wide area from advertising to corporate culture, mobile technology to social media, and product design to design techniques. . Subscribe via RSS »
