http://www.poxod.cc/blog A catalog of tools, research and products that empower creative visual communication. Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:44:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A collaboration between researchers at UC Berkeley and Microsoft Research, Pictionaire is a tabletop interactive collaboration system that "enables multiple designers to fluidly move imagery from the physical to the digital realm; work with found, drawn and captured imagery; organize items into functional collections; and record meeting histories." It accomplishes ... http://www.poxod.cc/blog/2010/02/23/pictionaire/ I just recently downloaded Tweetie, a desktop twitter client, and noticed that the company who makes it also makes a product called Scribbles. Noticing that its homepage proclaims Scribbles is 'Incredibly easy to use' and has a 'Revolutionary User Interface' I decided to give it a spin. Scribbles is an ... http://www.poxod.cc/blog/2010/01/29/scribbles/ In 1963 Ivan Sutherland developed Sketchpad. In developing what was to be part of his phd thesis, Sutherland pioneered what would come to be known as the graphical user interface, parametric constraints and the very concept of object-oriented programming, which he developed in order to better manage memory on the ... http://www.poxod.cc/blog/2010/01/20/sketchpad-a-look-back/ Prezi is a Hungarian startup that has developed a tool to empower people to make stunning visual presentations using text and media. Using their intuitive (yet not fully cross-platform) editing tool, creating gorgeous, dynamic motion-based presentations is surprisingly easy. As an exhibit designer, I personally found Prezi's strong emphasis on scaling ... http://www.poxod.cc/blog/2010/01/13/twist-your-presentation-like-a-prezi/ We never thought we'd be looking at a DNA editing tool as a 'tool for sketching', but we don't like to turn our noses up at something out of our area of expertise. In that spirit we submit for consideration EnzymeX, a tool by Papers creators Mekentosj. As visual designers and ... http://www.poxod.cc/blog/2009/12/26/sketching-dna/ Like any tool, a whiteboard is only as good as the person who uses it. On the other hand, easy access to space to let ideas fly can be valuable, and there is a lot to be said for 'breaking the frame'. IdeaPaint lets you paint a whiteboard anywhere you want ... http://www.poxod.cc/blog/2009/12/13/make-an-entire-wall-into-a-whiteboard-with-ideapaint/ Aaron Travis explores the motivation and payoff for developing low-fidelity wireframes for user interfaces during the design process. While a web-specific article, their rationale was clearly thought out and expressed in a way that makes it relevant to a wide variety of disciplines: Read More for excerpts Having used computer-based sketchy wireframes ... http://www.poxod.cc/blog/2009/11/16/73/ ILoveSketch No-Cut Demo: Spacecraft from Seok-Hyung Bae on Vimeo.iLoveSketch was presented at the SIGGRAPH 2009 Emerging Technology Conference in New Orleans. iLoveSketch is similar to SketchUp in that its primary goal is to transfer the cognitive burden of creating 3D forms from the left brain to the right. Users can ... http://www.poxod.cc/blog/2009/10/01/everybody-loves-sketch/ Takeaway Fesival is happening at the end of May at the Dana Centre Science Museum in London. Similar in some ways to Makefest, the festival seeks "to continue to provide a platform and hence public support for artists whose practice involves the use of technologies either on the edge of ... http://www.poxod.cc/blog/2009/04/10/takeaway/ Sketching in Hardware ("a summit on the design and use of physical computing toolkits") returns for 2008. This year the event comes to the east coast, where it will be held at the Rhode Island School of Design. Sketching in Hardware 3 Related Posts Sketching in Hardware 2007 Sketching in Hardware continues in ... http://www.poxod.cc/blog/2008/06/19/sketching-in-hardware-2008/