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It’s important to know that NBC is owned by General Electric (which means that interviews with people who live near a nuclear plant undoubtedly would be … but then again, such a story wouldn’t even occur to anyone), that CBS is owned by Westinghouse, and ABC by Disney, that TF1 belongs to Bouygues, and that…
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Building Creativity
ourrisd: The new and improved Rigamajig by Assistant Professor of Industrial Design Cas Holman – a 263-piece building kit for kids – officially launched at the end of May. Holman designed the kit to bolster creativity, teamwork and engineering skills among elementary school students. “Most kids don’t get to build their own tree houses and forts…
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As an interaction designer with a software engineering background, I usually bring ideas to life through coding. For those who don’t code, there are tools that offer a less technical approach, such as Quartz Composer (a nearly decade old visual programming language) and Origami (a new tool built by Facebook that streamlines Quartz Composer). The…
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Origami sits on top of Apple’s age-old Quartz Composer software, and Avocado sits on top of Origami. Avocado contains a few common user interface components that make building prototypes quicker. Among them: a carousel interface, which creates a framework for photos you swipe through left and right, and animations like jiggling, jumping, and pulsating, which…
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In 1902, Hamilton Beach Brands filed a patent that enabled them to sell vibrators directly to consumers, rather than only as a medical device. With this patent, the vibrator became the fifth electrified domestic appliance, beaten only by the sewing machine, the fan, the tea kettle, and the toaster. Leah Rich for Aeon: How will…