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The Weekly a-List

Kevin Wong by Kevin Wong, posted December 22nd, 2008
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Forrester’s 2008 Customer Experience Rankings

The #1 winner is: Barnes & Noble! This is great information if you were ever curious about leading brands in their respective industries. Check it out!

Adobe Experimenting With Semantic Autogeneration of 3D Worlds

This might remind you of Microsoft’s Photosynth, but the concept is slightly different. Adobe blends images that are compositional, and semantically (tagged) related and stitches them into an endless canvas. The photos that are stitched together therefore don’t need to be of the same object in the way Photosynth was implemented. However, Photosynth does allow you to create 3D objects and pivot around it in space.

Infinite Images takes any collection of tagged images, not necessarily from the same location at all, and stitches them together in 3D by analyzing their composition and the semantics of their tags (“sky” is above “ground,” for example).

MINI Augmented Reality Ads

MINI Cooper has just released a new advertisement that uses AR technology. People can see a full 3D models of a MINI on their computer screen using a web cam and IE. (ActiveX required)

Slideshare Plugin for PowerPoint

Love Slideshare? Love PowerPoint? Now you can do it automagically without having to change windows. Sharing presentations has never been easier.

SlideShare Ribbon Demo from slideshare on Vimeo.

Pen-based Input Concept

We are no strangers to touch based interactions, or pen-based either, so it’s great to see Johnny Lee and others continue pushing the development of the perfectly useful input method.

Wikitude via [Reaction]

a new application that runs on Google Android - lets you view the world through Wikipedia-tinted glasses. Simply point your mobile device’s camera at your surroundings and Wikitude will display an augmented reality version of it on the screen - a version complete with information about the buildings and other landmarks you can see, sourced directly from Wikipedia!

The Weekly a-List

Kevin Wong by Kevin Wong, posted November 3rd, 2008
categorized under a-list, inspiration | Comments

Apologies for getting this out so late! It has been a busy Monday morning. At least there’s still the rest of the week to enjoy!

Don’t forget, if you haven’t already, go out and vote! Make sure you know where you’re polling place is and get there [most likely] between 7am and 8pm. Cheers.

and here we go…

Red Teases Future in DSMC
Red is about to change the game for Digital Still & Motion Cameras (DSMC). You guys thought the Canon 5D MkII was hot. We’ll see after Nov 13th.

Touchscreen Voting Machine Not Fit For Purpose?
Just make sure that if you encounter one of these, double check your answer. Triple check. You just never know whether or not if your vote switched.

Social Interaction Design Primer
Getting into social design? Johnny Holland has an interesting point of view on the differences between designing for user needs vs designing for user interests. The analogies used are worth thinking about.

Nokia Open Studio: Exploratory Design Research
We’re always excited to see more examples of how large companies are investing a great deal in advancing their methods to uncovering user needs. The output of this work is always inspiring.

Food Pyramid Lunch Box
Absolutely beautiful. Can we make this mandatory for all school to provide?

Visualizing How The World Views US Elections
It’s interesting because we’re so used to seeing how we view our elections. Instead, you consider how this impacts a global scale. Another food for thought: how much of this is represented by Americans with ties to these other countries? What are the implications?

Johnny Lee + YouTube = Future of Prototyping
The power of social media cultivates a world of sharing. Learn more on how Johnny Lee and many others are paving the way on helping the world become inventors again.