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In Season 4 of Black Mirror, some of the technology presented in it is alarmingly close to reality. The most feasible tech in this season centers around online dating, like what is shown in the episode Hang the DJ, there are plenty of companies working to figure out how to get you a perfect match […]
Usually, when there are many people inside an elevator, you need the people standing near the control panel to choose the floor for you, which is often very inconvenient. Why shouldn’t there be floor selection controls on each side of the cabin walls?
Information Architecture is about helping people understand their surroundings and find what they’re looking for in the real world and online. It’s also relevant to the analog world we live in. The growth of the Internet exploded in the 1990s, and small sites grew into big messes, leading to usability problems, content nightmares, and costly […]
GarageBand is a digital audio software that allows users to create music.To understand why Apple wanted to create a free music-making app for beginners, you need to understand Apple’s goal for the Macintosh during that time because the iMac had been a very successful products for the company, and Apple had been slowly releasing new […]
Pong was one of the first social games, a fact that the game’s creator, Bushnell, appreciated. He said, “it was very common to have a girl with a quarter in hand, pulled a guy off a barstool and said, ‘I’d like to play pong, and there’s nobody to play.’” It was a way you could […]
The graphical user interface in a 1984 Macintosh was pretty impressive, considering Microsoft Windows wasn’t even out yet, and computers were basically command-line interfaces at this time. So having a graphical desktop environment was pretty remarkable. The graphical interface in a 1984 Macintosh is black and white, and runs at 512 x 384 resolution — […]
The graphical user interface in a 1984 Macintosh was pretty impressive, considering Microsoft Windows wasn’t even out yet, and computers were basically command-line interfaces at this time. So having a graphical desktop environment was pretty remarkable. The graphical interface in a 1984 Macintosh is black and white, and runs at 512 x 384 resolution — […]