Things I'm Thinking About, aka “Research”
Tools and techniques for reducing abstraction and indirection.
Encouraging people to understand and create via exploration and intuition.
Dynamic Pictures
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Dynamic Pictures:
Why do we make pictures by writing code? How can artists draw data graphics, visual interfaces, and other
pictures that change?
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Magic Ink:
A treatise on a new approach to UI design. Interaction considered harmful.
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Substroke:
Sketch of a dynamic drawing language.
Explorable Explanations
Kill Math
Serious Business
I made these things to provoke and inspire you.
Major Projects
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Our Choice:
(2010) Infographics redefined.
A multimedia edition of Al Gore's book on climate change. I designed the interactive infographics.
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Apple:
(2007-2010) Inventin' shit.
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Substroke:
(2007) Towards a dynamic drawing language.
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ClickShirt:
(2006) New frontiers in t-shirt design.
ClickShirt was an online drawing tool with an unusually smooth and simple UI. Click to visit.
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Magic Ink:
(2006) Interaction considered harmful.
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BART Widget:
(2005) Train schedules, novel UI.
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bkasm:
(2004) Fancy DSP assembler.
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Alesis Ion, Micron, Fusion:
(2003-2005) Music machines.
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Crosstalk Coding:
(2001) Bus encoding to prevent crosstalk delay.
Nice Ideas
Ancient History
