I got my invite to Medium!
Medium.com, that is, for you untrendy people out there. Kinda like WordPress in the old days, but with notes instead of comments, a pleasant, uncluttered interface for writing and a small community (at least for now) so you still feel like you’re being heard. It’s still in beta, so after signing up it’ll be a while […]
Paypal Examples
I’m checking out PayPal’s shipping label service - did you know that through them you can buy shipping labels from USPS or UPS, and get your parcel picked up at the door? – when I noticed the examples they used for names: Chinese names. Interestingly enough, Xiaoming (小明) is the equivalent of John Doe when […]
Interactive Storytelling
I’m a big fan of the Sims, even though I don’t get to play it often enough. I like the way stories evolve out of seemingly banal gameplay, the flexibility of it. So when I discovered the free iPad version, I was on it immediately. Of course, it, being free, came with advertising. It only […]
USB Typewriter
Oh goodness gracious me, how quaint and badass. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu3g4ZBt3o0&w=560&h=315] You can buy these babies from Etsy at $800 a pop or purchase a kit for 10% of the price! What a steal, I’m sure.
On having time
On the plus side, I’ve had the time to read like nobody’s business. In the past week our so I’ve read: The Book Thief Olive Kitteridge Blown to Bits Never Let Me Go To Kill a Mockingbird Catcher in the Rye Franny and Zooey The Perks of Being a Wallflower and old copies of AAA […]
Doritos
That’s all I can think of eating, these days. Crunchy, salty, cheesy Doritos that make your mouth all dry and powdery. Crunch, crunch, crunch. None of this porridge-and-oatmeal crap. You know what else I want to eat? Peanuts. I love peanuts. Nowadays I can barely fit them through my 10mm opening (i.e. my mouth), let […]
Doritos
That’s all I can think of eating, these days. Crunchy, salty, cheesy Doritos that make your mouth all dry and powdery. Crunch, crunch, crunch. None of this porridge-and-oatmeal crap. You know what else I want to eat? Peanuts. I love peanuts. Nowadays I can barely fit them through my 10mm opening (i.e. my mouth), let […]
There will be blood. Lots of blood.
Also I’ll be mentioning the P word, the M word, maybe even the F word.
HCI Design Blog
My blog on this semester’s HCI designs in progress: http://vivienlimcomp171.wordpress.com/ There’s cool stuff in the pipelines!
Solution!=Problem
A client at work wanted a specific feature. It would be cool, but nobody knew really how useful it would be because nobody had asked, “Well, alright, but who would use it? When would they use it, and how?” So we poked around, called some people, and at this point it seems like a full-fledged […]