Category: Design UX

Global international migration flows | Wittgenstein Centre

by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Sustainable Design

  Global international migration flows | Wittgenstein Centre.

Deathwatch : The New Yorker

by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Digital Health

  Deathwatch : The New Yorker.

This Simple Data-Scraping Tool Could Change How Apps Are Made | Wired Design | Wired.com

by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Metadata Masterdata

  This Simple Data-Scraping Tool Could Change How Apps Are Made | Wired Design | Wired.com.

BioBeats app generates custom music from your heartrate (Wired UK)

by timbatchelder, posted in Biomedical Informatics, Design UX

  BioBeats app creates generates custom music from your heartrate (Wired UK).

Best In-Ear Headphones Under $30 | The Wirecutter

by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX

  Best In-Ear Headphones Under $30 | The Wirecutter.

Visualizing the level of wifi and cellular radiation we bathe in each day

by timbatchelder, posted in Biomedical Informatics, Cognitive Systems AI, Design UX, Systems Science

Images Show How Much Cell Phone Radiation We Bathe in Every Day Ross Brooks, inhabitat.com Nickolay Lamm has already made the invisible visible with a project that showed what Wi-Fi would look like if we could see it, but for his latest series of images, the artist has turned his attention to cell phones. Cell … Continue reading Visualizing the level of wifi and cellular radiation we bathe in each day

GE consolidates all kitchen appliances into sleek, Eco friendly block of metal

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science UX Research, Cognitive Systems AI, Design UX, Systems Science

GE’s Ingenious Idea for Simplifying Every Gadget in Your Kitchen Joseph Flaherty, wired.com EcoSwitch, a modular kitchen kit, could replace half a dozen gadgets. http://flip.it/41vs7 Related articles GE's Ingenious Idea for Simplifying Every Gadget in Your Kitchen (wired.com) GE's Ingenious Idea for Simplifying Every Gadget in Your Kitchen (industrialextractor.wordpress.com) Cookscape Offer 10 Years Warranty For … Continue reading GE consolidates all kitchen appliances into sleek, Eco friendly block of metal

Changing the IT department from gatekeepers to curators

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Systems AI, Design UX, Digital Health, Linguistic Search, Metadata Masterdata, Regenerative Economy

The IT Department Is Dead. Long Live the IT Department Marcus Wohlsen, wired.com In the brave new world imagined by four Silicon Valley startups — Evernote, Box, GitHub, and Asana — the role of IT is changing. Instead of the people who say no, they will be the people who say yes. http://flip.it/I1CvM Related articles … Continue reading Changing the IT department from gatekeepers to curators

MIT Media Lab site lets anyone visualize government data

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Systems AI, Data Governance, Design UX, Linguistic Search

New MIT Media Lab Tool Lets Anyone Visualize Unwieldy Government Data fastcodesign.com Innovation By Design DataViva, a project developed in part by Media Lab professor César Hidalgo, aims to make a wide swath of government economic data usable with a series of visualization apps. In the four years since the U.S. gov­ern­ment… http://flip.it/E0nsK Related articles … Continue reading MIT Media Lab site lets anyone visualize government data

Jawbone uses big data to identify sleep deprived states

by timbatchelder, posted in Biomedical Informatics, Cognitive Systems AI, Design UX, Linguistic Search

Jawbone Tracked Hundreds Of Thousands Of Up Users To Find The Most Sleep-Deprived States BY REBECCA GREENFIELD, fastcompany.com Jawbone anonymized sleep data from Up wearers and discovered some interesting trends about how we as a country snooze. For one, they do it better in Colorado (blame the weed?). You’d think that peo­ple would have some … Continue reading Jawbone uses big data to identify sleep deprived states

Visualizing the wealth of America by zip code

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Systems AI, Design UX, Sustainable Design

Mapping The Wealth Of U.S. ZIP Codes Shows The Haves Hiding From The Have-Nots fastcoexist.com This interactive graphic, which lets you see the economic stats for every ZIP code in the country, shows the emergence of “Super ZIPs”—communities where nearly everyone is wealthy. The Har­vard philoso­pher Michael Sandel calls it the… http://flip.it/lf9p8 Related articles Mapping … Continue reading Visualizing the wealth of America by zip code

Infographic shows the health meaning of the color of your pee

by timbatchelder, posted in Biomedical Informatics, Cognitive Systems AI, Design UX, Linguistic Search

Is Your Pee The Right Color? [Infographic] By Kelsey D. Atherton, popsci.com Sev­er­al times a day, human bod­ies release a stream of data about inter­nal health. Unfor­tu­nate­ly, the data comes ana­log, and so isn’t imme­di­ate­ly acces­si­ble as use­ful infor­ma­tion. Now an info­graph­ic from the Cleve­land Clin­ic off… http://flip.it/IfZGH Related articles Is Your Pee The Right … Continue reading Infographic shows the health meaning of the color of your pee

Software finds 1 in 4 science papers have suspicious images

by timbatchelder, posted in Biomedical Informatics, Cognitive Systems AI, Design UX, Linguistic Search

Software Scans Journal Papers, Finds 1 In 4 Have Suspicious Images By Francie Diep, popsci.com Ital­ian biol­o­gist Enri­co Bucci orig­i­nal­ly devel­oped his start­up’s soft­ware to make sci­en­tists’ lives eas­i­er. The soft­ware is a search engine that auto­mat­i­cal­ly pulls images from pub­lished sci­en­tif­ic papers. Say you’re study­… http://flip.it/kf1lf

Snooperscope iPhone night vision lens

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Systems AI, Design UX

Hunt ghosts with Snooperscope smartphone night vision lens by Tim Hornyak, cnet.com This magnetic device lets you act like a creepy spy, observe nocturnal wildlife, or see Kinect infrared dots. Maybe you want to check out what­ev­er it was that just went bump in the night. Or maybe you just want to see things in … Continue reading Snooperscope iPhone night vision lens

Structure sensor turns any iPad into a 3d scanner

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science UX Research, Cognitive Systems AI, Design UX, Metadata Masterdata

The 3D Scanner for Your iPad Will Digitize Reality By Alexander George, popularmechanics.com Technology Structure Sensor plugs in to any iPad and makes a detailed 3D image of your surroundings. First out­fit your iPad with this smooth and appro­pri­ate­ly futuristic-looking appendage. Then point your tablet in any direc­tion an… http://flip.it/d6HvI Related articles Structure Sensor. A … Continue reading Structure sensor turns any iPad into a 3d scanner

PubPeer, PubLons online peer review sites shake up science publication

by timbatchelder, posted in Biomedical Informatics, Cognitive Systems AI, Data Governance, Design UX, Regenerative Economy

New wave of online peer review and discussion tools frightens some scientists Chris Lee, arstechnica.com Sites like Publons and PubPeer hope to quicken the pace of scientific conversation. PublonsEarlier this year, I wrote a story about a new HIV/Aids detection kit that was under development. Since that time, the same group has published two more … Continue reading PubPeer, PubLons online peer review sites shake up science publication

High end mirror less cameras guide

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Systems AI, Design UX

2013 High-End Mirrorless Camera Comparison Guide Simon Crisp, gizmag.com It’s looking increasingly certain that interchangeable lens cameras have got a mirrorless future. In 2013 we’ve seen new models which can rival all but the very best of their mirrored counterparts in terms of features, build, and image quality. In… http://flip.it/YYHRA Related articles Canon launches Interchangeable … Continue reading High end mirror less cameras guide

The jobs of the future belong to data science and user experience designers

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science UX Research, Cognitive Systems AI, Design UX, Digital Health, Information Visualization

The jobs of the future belong to data scientists and user experience designers Stacey Higginbotham, gigaom.com GE and design may not seem to go togeth­er, but as it con­nects its indus­tri­al prod­ucts, med­ical devices and home appli­ances to the inter­net and rethinks its busi­ness for the con­nect­ed age, the com­pa­ny is focus­ing on user inter­faces … Continue reading The jobs of the future belong to data science and user experience designers

Big data can now tell how badly you drive, and if you ride

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Systems AI, Design UX, Linguistic Search, Metadata Masterdata, Sustainable Design

New algorithms can tell if you ride the bus, and how bad you drive Derrick Harris, gigaom.com Researchers from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Helsin­ki in Fin­land have devel­oped algo­rithms they say are the best yet for deter­min­ing how mobile phone users are get­ting around town — walk­ing, dri­ving, tak­ing the sub­way or oth­er­wise — by… http://flip.it/hxozG … Continue reading Big data can now tell how badly you drive, and if you ride

Colossal finds most incredible images

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Systems AI, Design UX

The Eye-Popping Images On Colossal Will Make Art Lovers Of Us All BY BRYAN LUFKIN, fastcompany.com Christopher Jobson’s knack for finding the most stunning, share-worthy pictures on the Internet make his site Colossal required browsing for anyone remotely interested in the visual arts. Between celebri­ty Twit­ter feuds, tele­vised nip slips, … http://flip.it/FUUZv Related articles The … Continue reading Colossal finds most incredible images

Why skilled writers are critical to the knowledge economy

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Systems AI, Design UX, Linguistic Search, Regenerative Economy

The Simplest Way To Know What Everyone’s Doing At Work BY JANET CHOI, fastcompany.com In the modern—often remote—workplace, sharing work is essential to an efficient and collaborative team. Writing is the simple, powerful tool that can foster that culture of sharing. Here’s why. We share so much on our dig­i­tal streams and fee… http://flip.it/YIFRR Related … Continue reading Why skilled writers are critical to the knowledge economy

Visualizing NYC’s toxic waste sites

by timbatchelder, posted in Biomedical Informatics, Cognitive Systems AI, Design UX, Systems Science

New York City’s (Many) Toxic Sites, Mapped For Your Avoidance Convenience fastcoexist.com An interactive map of every bad pollution situation in the city creates a history of our urban development. Take one look at this inter­ac­tive map of New York City’s toxic sites, and the city appears to be one giant mine­field loaded with… http://flip.it/Tgp5F … Continue reading Visualizing NYC’s toxic waste sites

Pencil: the coolest, natural iPad stylus

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Systems AI, Design UX

Meet Pencil: The Best iPad Stylus Yet, From the Makers of ‘Paper’ Kyle VanHemert, wired.com As Georg Petschnigg, one of FiftyThree’s founders, puts it, a stylus gives you the chance to “think with your hands.” http://flip.it/3Xc8i Related articles The Company Behind The iPad App Of The Year, Paper, Is Making A Stylus For The iPad … Continue reading Pencil: the coolest, natural iPad stylus

Circle of life: visualizing biological data

by timbatchelder, posted in Biomedical Informatics, Cognitive Systems AI, Design UX

Circle of Life: The Beautiful New Way to Visualize Biological Data Brandon Keim, wired.com When Martin Krzywinski took a systems administrator job at Canada’s Michael Smith Genome Center, he didn’t plan on becoming a pioneer of 21st century biological data visualization. Now his distinctive aesthetic is synonymous with the informational… http://flip.it/eM8Vh Related articles Martin Krzywinski … Continue reading Circle of life: visualizing biological data

Facebook predicts when your relationship will fail

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Systems AI, Design UX, Linguistic Search

Can Facebook Tell When Your Relationship Is Doomed? | Popular Science popsci.com A Face­book Employ­ee’s Net­work The cir­cle in the mid­dle rep­re­sents the Face­book user. In the lower left, one cir­cle serves as a bridge between two more sparse clus­ters. That’s the user’s spouse. Back­strom and Klein­berg Give up now… http://flip.it/fgooX Related articles Kickstarter Alum … Continue reading Facebook predicts when your relationship will fail

David Hockney paints on iPad

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Systems AI, Design UX

David Hockney’s iPad drawings go big, 12 feet big by Leslie Katz, cnet.com A giant exhibit at San Francisco’s DeYoung Museum highlights the influential artist’s foray into iPhone and iPad art, as well as films he made using multiple digital cameras. There are iPad draw­ings you look at on a screen, and there are iPad… … Continue reading David Hockney paints on iPad

DropcamPro: the best cloud based home security camera

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Systems AI, Design UX, OSINT Intelligence

Dropcam trades silver for black with its new, smarter Dropcam Pro Ricardo Bilton, venturebeat.com Tick­ets On Sale Now Drop­cam has come a long way from sell­ing some­one else’s hard­ware. The home sur­veil­lance hard­ware com­pa­ny, which start­ed out by sell­ing cam­eras made by Axis, is updat­ing its prod­uct line again with the $200… http://flip.it/jfUNF Related articles … Continue reading DropcamPro: the best cloud based home security camera