The future of the user interface design is here! Navigating through the visualization of data on a touch screen. Produced by Digimind and the Cité des Sciences Museum, in partnership with Pikko and Intactil Design. Enjoy the Video!
Journalism in the Age of Data
Geoff McGhee has been producer at nytimes.com, head of multimedia at Le Monde and now John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University. These years at San Francisco are being productive, as we can see on this fantastic documentary about data visualization on the media.
Journalism in the Age of Data from Geoff McGhee on Vimeo.
My recommendation is that you visit the original site to watch the movie in an interactive way.
John Underkoffler points to the future of UI
Minority Report science adviser and inventor John Underkoffler demos g-speak — the real-life version of the film’s eye-popping, tai chi-meets-cyberspace computer interface. Is this how tomorrow’s computers will be controlled?
Frog Design Envisions: Your Future in 2020
At the end of last year, Forbes magazine asked a team from Frog Design to help them Envision the Future in 2020. The day-long event led to an extensive online feature: “Your Life in 2020,” a collection of illustrated concepts and videos that envision the future of ubiquitous computing. In that future, your computer is not only incorporated into every aspect of your life but is a part of you.
I love that they included the Whuffie, a personal score system developed by Cory Doctorow.
The term “whuffie,” by the way, is a word coined by author Cory Doctorow in his book Down And Out In the Magic Kingdom. It refers to the measurement of respect or karma a person gains or looses in their lives. In Doctorow’s future, humans have implants in their brains that visually project their whuffie, which has replaced money as currency.
Via VizWorld and DesignMind, the Frog Design blog
Tangible Interaction: Digital Graffiti Wall
Alex Biem of Vancouver-based Tangible Interaction has engineered what he calls a “Tangible Graffiti Wall.” The Wall, which has been present at a number of events including the Vancouver Winter Olympics, lets people “spray” or “stencil” onto a projected display surface using an infrared can.
After users are done, they can email or upload their artwork to Twitter directly from the Wall.
Watch the video:
Digital Graffiti Wall + Stencils from Alex Beim on Vimeo.
Via PSFK
IBM’s new Data Commercials: Energy & Transportation
Motion Theory follows up their interesting IBM Data commercial with two new offerings, Data Transportation and Data Energy.
The new spots continue to build on the innovative way IBM gathers and analyzes information and utilizes it to create efficiencies in everyday life. They are striking in different ways – “Energy” features beautiful holographic images flowing from energy sources while “Transportation” is an abstract visual metaphor for how people move around the world.
See both spots below.
Via VizWorld
Ambient Life – Animated Vision of the Future
Freeband Communication and IIPIC share a vision of the future: a world in which information and communication technology render one’s surroundings into a thinking and caring environment. Martijn Hogenkamp from the QBF created an animated video using infographics to explain the vast quantities of data.
Freeband – The Ambient Life from The QBF on Vimeo.
