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Happy Birthday GIF

The GIF, celebrates its 25th birthday. Watch the PBS Off Book feature celebrating the file format.

The segment about Cinemagraphs is fantastic.






Example GIFs from Cinemagraphs.com

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Solving the touchscreen delay problem

Microsoft’s Applied Sciences Group is working on new technologies that improve touchscreen input response time:

One of the biggest problems with touch interfaces is simulating physics well enough to fool the brain’s perception systems. When a physical action you make with your finger does not lead to the response your brain has learned to expect in the physical world, something feels very wrong. It doesn’t feel genuine. Thankfully, Windows Phone does a much better job at this than Android; Microsoft is clearly thinking about this stuff.

An Internet Thing

Internet of Things are uniquely identifiable objects (things) and their virtual representations in an Internet-like structure. And here is an awesome example from the fella’s over at Breakfast. It brings a physical interaction to the like or dislike of music from Last.fm or Pandora.

Touch Vision Interface

Evolve and Prosper

Two methods to initiate the design process:

  • Either as a “progressive enhancement”, with mobile layout first and desktop layout at last.
  • Or as a “graceful degradation”, with the full desktop website as a basis to design the other layouts.

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Peering into the Snowglobe


How is it that the Tilt-shift technique never ceases to make me like I’m watching a tiny little world in a snowglobe.

Scuba Steve

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