interaction design
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Change Of Heart! Twitter Now Reportedly Testing Different Emoji
Twitter users made it pretty clear last week. A puffy red heart isn’t always the best way to favourite/like/star/bookmark/acknowledge tweets. Maybe Twitter is listening: It is reportedly testing the ability to select different emoji.
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I Saw The Future At New York’s Uncanny Smithsonian Museum
It’s weird to see a working Nest thermostat on display at a Smithsonian museum in Manhattan. It’s even weirder to tinker with the gadget, pushing buttons and changing settings. But touching and tinkering with technology is the Cooper Hewitt future museum’s specialty.
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Cheap IKEA Products Transformed Into Awesome Game Controllers
IKEA hacking never gets old, but this goes beyond your average mod: An interaction designer named Marc Dubois has taken three cheap-o IKEA products and modified them to act as controllers for desktop games.
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An Interview With Geoff McFetridge On The Interfaces From Her
Not even those who worked on the Oscar-nominated film Her are sure exactly how near we are to the near-future depicted in the movie. “I think the idea of the near-future is that you can’t predict the pace of technology,” says graphic designer Geoff McFetridge, who designed the interfaces for the film.