The Experience Shack

thoughts on life and designed things

The Traditions 2011 Holiday Charity Show - Dec. 3, 5:30 @ St. Paul's

Join Any Questions, Oswald and the Herringbones, Throat Culture, and others local musicians on Saturday, Dec. 3rd from 5:30 - 7:30 for an evening of great music and unconventional versions of your favorite Holiday tunes. Your donation at the door will go to feed those in need this holiday season. So come, give thanks, eat food, and rock out with The Traditions. St. Paul's United Church of Christ (225 East Gates St. Columbus, Ohio 43206).

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Can you say 'lacks affordance'? "Now clickable"!

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At first I thought this was a joke. I do love my Roku, but this screen a great example bad interaction design. This represents an interactive design element and its implementation that doesn’t indicate (at all) how it might be used. It’s so bad that Roku had to put a sign on it saying “please click me”. A better approach might be to redesign the interactive element so it actually looks clickable. I might have to use this for my user-centered design training course. It’s a great example of ambiguity and affordance in design. Or maybe this is an example of “design in a hurry”?

Misa digital guitar brings new dimensions to multi-hand / multi-touch interaction experiences

via youtube.com

Digital guitar and amp sound modeling has come a long way in the last ten years. And with the rise of guitar hero and virtual guitar "faking", it was inevitable that new performance models would arise out of this combination of gestural (multi-touch / multi-hand) interaction and guitar modeling. While embodiments like Misa will never replace traditional guitar playing but will provide a new instrument for guitar-like and other musical expression giving further cred to the reality of "whole-body" gestural interaction experiences like Microsoft's project Natal (http://tinyurl.com/yaukj86).>