Artificial Horizon

This weblog is where I collect informations helping me clarify the design process : links, thoughts and personnal projects where I try to materialize and illustrate what I've learned. I'm french so I'll try to 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 (expect 2 or 3 posts a week, maximum). If you'd like to contact me, you can send an email to my first name at domain name (check the spelling, it's kind of special). Thank you for reading.

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...
Amazing
Great example of brain power wasting from Gamedaily.com : NPD analysts make a report on kids and digital content, find out kids like to play....
Content out of context
David Lynch making a point on watching a movie on a mobile device, originally from the Inland Empire special edition, edited to fit the iPhone commercials theme. Sure, you can't fully experience a great feature film watching it on a...
Sottsass has gone
Only a few of the objects he designed would make it to my home because of their style and larger than necessary presence, but I've always appreciated the archetypal character of his production, his masterful sense of proportions and how...
Judging from pictures
This post, where my commentary on the Kindle product design has been described as a "silly attempt to review via photos" made me realize that product designers are actually this kind of guys, they judge products from pictures....
Bookishness
How the Kindle is ugly and feels wrong, let aside the subjectivity of beauty or taste....

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