Niklaus Gerber - Issue #18
highly recommended
Pokémon Go: everything you need to know in 9 minutes
Pokémon Go is becoming insanely popular, but it’s about as easy to learn how to use as Snapchat. So, The Verge’s Chris Plante, Ross Miller, Miriam Nielsen and Kirsten Frisina bring you the ultimate guide to playing. Whether you haven’t opened the app yet or you’re already an experienced gym leader, we’ve got some tips and tricks for you. Gotta catch em all!
What we learned designing a car user experience
A five month graduate project by Luc van Loon.
Deadly UI
“I want to make a revolving door that says ‘Pull’ on it, just see how obedient people are.” — Demitri Martin
A Group of Programmers Made Something Like 'Pokémon Go' at a 2014 Hackathon
“Charmander, use Ember,” Jack Gao shouts into his Android-powered smartphone. On a screen, the crowd before him watches as the popular orange pokémon complies and attacks the Bulbasaur opposite him, chipping some points from the latter’s health bar. The crowd loves it. They cheer, they clap. It’s clearly something they want.
A Psychological Approach to Designing Interfaces
Do you ever get that feeling when you’re in a supermarket, looking at a sea of different types of toothpaste and you have no idea what to get?
Designing an in-app Survey
How to capture user’s emotion (concept study).
Peek Inside a Facebook Design Critique
At Facebook, where we’re working to make the world more open and connected, an inherent part of our mission is to share how we create the things we build. We recently decided to begin sharing a critical part of our process as a result: the design critique.
astonishing apps
Google's New App Isn't The Next Best Thing To The Louvre. It Might Be Better
Google Arts & Culture turns art from all over the world into a meta museum.
Phone Hacking Game ‘Replica’ Is Blunt and All Too Real
In a bleak, pixelated prison cell, I see only the light of a locked phone screen. As a teenager arrested by Homeland Security, I’ve been given another kid’s phone and told to break in. I need to get them information if I want to be set free myself.
Cloud Natural Language API
Google Cloud Natural Language API reveals the structure and meaning of text by offering powerful machine learning models in an easy to use REST API. You can use it to extract information about people, places, events and much more, mentioned in text documents, news articles or blog posts. You can use it to understand sentiment about your product on social media or parse intent from customer conversations happening in a call center or a messaging app. You can analyze text uploaded in your request or integrate with your document storage on Google Cloud Storage.
inspirational
Data Gallery
Think with Google.
5 Actual Web Designs Trends for 2016
Whenever I see a link called Web Design Trends for this year I click it happily only to be disappointed within minutes. It’s always, without fail, trends from last year, or non-trends like: illustrations. Like, did you know that animations apparently is a big trend? Seriously, if you write a trend list and include full screen background video as a trend for 2016 you should really try to go online and look at websites before jotting down your list. No one like click baits. Anyway, without further ado, here’s a list of five actual trends for the first half of this year.
Using Animation to Enhance to UX
Animation has been used very successfully to delight and engage film viewers – I don’t need to quote IMDB ratings of Pixar films in order to highlight their popularity. Likewise, used in the right way animation can improve an interface and enhance UX, sometimes even making it magical.
39 studies about human perception in 30 minutes
These are my speaker notes from a talk I gave at OpenVis in April 2016. Originally this talk was supposed to be called “Everything we know about how humans perceive graphics,” which is… at a minimum, pretty pretentious. I scaled back a bit.
beautiful video content
Channel 4's New 'Superhumans' Paralympics Ad
It is a Fantastic Broadway-Style Extravaganza
Fukushima - Images by Rebecca Lilith Bathory
Rebecca asked me to take her images of Fukushima and create a video. I used mapping techniques to make the images breathe. Every so often someone will ask for a collaboration and you can just feel the passion from that person. Rebecca is such a person. I was delighted to help her in any way i could. I do hope you enjoy.
GEIST
A shipwrecked fisherman is led to a dark secret within this short thriller.
People See Color For The First Time With Glasses That Fix Colorblindness
EnChroma has developed high-tech lenses that can correct most color vision deficiencies.
made me smile
Tommy Gets A Promotion - Come Fly With Me
Happy Burger employee Tommy has now got three stars on his name badge. He’s also been given a promotion meaning he must train up new employees. However, he still requires the assistance of his supervisor.