Artificial Horizon

Articles and links about the design process
by Thibaut Sailly

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This weblog is where I collect informations helping me clarify the idea of the design process : links, thoughts and personnal projects where I try to materialize and illustrate what I've learned. I'm french so I may post in french from times to times, but as the goal of this site is to share ideas and foster discussions, everything is in english, by default.

You can subscribe to the feed without fearing an invasion of unread items from here - I don't come up with interesting comments on the subject of design every week, or months even, and that's fine because this scarcity will respect your valuable reading time.
If you'd like to contact me, you can send an email to thibaut at domain name. Thank you for passing by.

Some other links with short comments about interface design (mostly) & curiosities can be found on my Tumblog. In French though.

Last 10 posts

Feelback
As a reminder of Ettore Sottsass's passing a little more than 2 years ago now, here is a quote I found in an exhibition catalog about Martine Bedin's work (she was part of the Memphis group). Sure, design is about...
sncf
Apologies to you, english reader. This article is about a french website you have to use if you want to book train tickets online, and points out the webdesign-related reasons why so many people get frustrated using it. I won’t...
Scribe
✍ updated at the end, January 21st As anyone who's interested in Apple products and interface design, I came across a lot of views, wishes and predictions about the new forthcoming Apple product known for now as the tablet. But...
Creativity
A conference from Merlin Mann, with some great insights on creativity, and on how to get better at creative work : nothing less than sweat, sorry. This is so precise : "creativity is a way of understanding how things that...
iKindle
Amazon just launched its new Kindle and here is a comment based on the presentation given today on amazon.com, in perspective to the one I did when the first one was unveiled a little more than a year ago. In...
This post is a comment to the Stevens Creek TripLog/1040 UI design discussion happening on John Gruber's Flickr entry and Ryan Singer's SVN entry. The first thought I had about this iPhone app's screenshot was, as many : "hammer, please"....
Newton on a bike
ℱ version française. Going for a coffee this afternoon, I saw a fancy cyclist standing still on his two wheels only, waiting for his turn at the red light. He stood like this, without moving an inch for a...
Touch gaming
Until thought control becomes accurate enough, physical interfaces will remain necessary to interact with video games. Consequently, these products can and should be considered as tangible objects, or more accurately, products experienced physically. The first contact one has with a...
Less Nav
ℱ version française. The intent behind this site's content arrangement was to put the articles in the fore front while dimming the navigation links. The fact [1] is that most readers come here to read one and only article, rather...
A new home
Goodbye "Well", hello "Artificial Horizon". All the articles from the previous blog were transfered here. As I switched from Blogger to the newly available free version of Movable Type, I couldn't move the comments automatically, so there's a good chance...
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