I spent a good part of today at INIS’ first Project Columbus event on Transmedia Storytelling.
To those of us who live and breathe the web, and who have grown up with the cacophony of various media all going at the same time, “transmedia storytelling” seems like a fancy name for an experience that we have [...]
Categories: communications, design, user experience
A little over three weeks ago when I happened to be in Barcelona, my friend Professor Carlos Scolari snagged me for a guest appearance in one of his classes. I hadn’t done an “unlecture” before — being technically on holiday and it being a last-minute arrangement — I came armed with my brain and not [...]
Categories: design, user experience
Many discussions surrounding the evolution the book revolve around the impending doom of the bricks-and-mortar store as it loses out to the online experience — where our measure of “online bookstore” is unmistakably Amazon, followed by mega-bookstores like Barnes and Noble. A new brood of e-readers recently released at CES heats up the conversation that [...]
Categories: design, user experience
Whilst at StatusCampMontreal today, a few of us in the Internationalization session were discussing interfaces for switching to another language. I hit upon a possibly rather silly idea where you can use something visual to help predict someone’s language. This is only a rough sketch, so it’s probably not much use as it is to [...]
Categories: design, i18n/l10n, multilingualism
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