The Digital Life Episode #93: Apple Watch Fever Episode Summary At Apple’s big unveiling on Monday, we got a better look at the Apple Watch, what the company hopes will be its next category-busting tech product. At the event, Apple
UX Maturity: The AI of UX
Originally published on the Involution Studios blog This is the final article in our User Experience Maturity series. Read parts 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. Where will UX be in the hard-to-see future of the 2020s and beyond? I
The Digital Life Episode #83: Five Tech Predictions for 2015
The Digital Life Episode #83: Five Tech Predictions for 2015 Episode Summary As we finish up 2014, it’s time for a few predictions for the upcoming year. In this episode of The Digital Life we discuss the near future of
Hey, UX Agencies: It’s Gonna Be Alright
Originally published on the Involution Studios blog Like wildfire, word of the demise of UX agencies is spreading through the community. Sparked by the acquisition of Adaptive Path, the closing of Smart Design in San Francisco, and an analysis by
Google Fit: A Better Bet Than Apple Health
Originally published on the Involution Studios blog. In April we wrote about why Apple’s Health(book) was a bad idea. Two of those reasons apply to Google Fit as well: health information should be universal and consistent, and the parochial interests
“Always on” will start to turn off
Originally published on the Involution Studios blog. Each day, more and more people go thru their lives with their head tilted downward and their thumb manipulating a handheld computer. This is not class-based behaviour: these expensive machines and/or the data
Athletic competition and the future
Among the swirl of interesting, wonderful, inspiring, disappointing and tragic stories from the recently completed London Olympics was the feud between Carl Lewis and Usain Bolt, based on Lewis’ comments which included, among others: “If you don’t question (significant performance
What’s Next?
Originally published on the Involution Studios blog. As countless, near-identical Steve Jobs obituaries spew out of the blogosphere/Twitterverse today, let’s honour his contribution by doing what he did best: anticipating at what will be next… As Robert Fabricant eloquently wrote
Get over it: Silicon Valley remains the international capitol of software
Originally published on the Involution Studios blog. I’m in the midst of a four week trip to downtown Venice in Santa Monica, a little enclave amidst the commercialism and sterility in this little part of the world. While driving down
Someday soon, your OS and browser will be the same thing
Originally published on the Involution Studios blog. This week’s much-ballyhoed launch of RockMelt is again getting the tech intelligentsia in a lather about a potential new browser. What they seem to be ignoring is that the battle has already been