Tag Archives: video

Armchair Astronaut: Winner Samsung FreeTheTVChallenge

 

We are happy to announce that Armchair Astronaut, an Artefact internal passion project, is the third prize winner in the Samsung FreeTheTVChallenge. Armchair Astronaut is a stereoscopic 3D application for Samsung’s TV app platform fully designed and developed by Artefact.  Armchair Astronaut … Continue reading →

 

Jobs be damned: Flash on the iPad! (Silverlight, too!)

 

As the row between Apple and Adobe over Flash on the iPhone OS continued to grow, we thought circumventing the issue entirely might be disruptive. If we could seamlessly deliver a site that uses Flash in Mobile Safari without installing … Continue reading →

 

Bending Sound: Natural Interaction for Digital Music Performance

 

I was at a concert recently and caught myself in a familiar train of observation: ‘What’s with that guy in the back? He does nothing but occasionally press single keys on a keyboard. He looks like he’s part of the … Continue reading →

 

Musical Forest: A Multitouch Experience for Kids

 

Musical Forest: An Artefact Experiment from Artefact on Vimeo. Us Artefactians regularly dabble in new user experiences outside of our daily client work that explore areas such as unfamiliar target audiences, new technologies, new UI mechanisms, or themes that spark … Continue reading →

 

Artefact designs user experience for Project Tuva

 

If I could choose someone from all of history to have a beer with, Richard Feynman would be on my short list. Books and audio recordings of his physics lectures have sold like crazy, even more among enthusiasts than as … Continue reading →

 

Bb 2.0: Collaborative Music and Spoken Word Project

 

I love the web for many reasons, and one of those reasons is the mashup. Darren Solomon from Science of Girls has created a simple site that hosts a grid of YouTube videos containing melodies, beats, spoken word and more … Continue reading →

 

Understanding How Urban South African Youth Socialize Via Mobile Phones

 

Socializing via mobile phones is widespread amongst South African urban youth. Prior research has focused on the devices themselves, from feature comparisons to usage rates. Our approach was to uncover business and design opportunities for our client’s next generation of … Continue reading →

 

How to Film Customer Insights: Camera Operator

 

Digital still and motion imaging has come a long way. As technology continues to grant us the luxury of shooting in the dark, record events unseen like a ninja and render them with emotive qualities, it’s becoming easier for researchers … Continue reading →

 

A Future Retail Shopping Experience

 

If you haven’t already been checkin’ up on us, then you might have missed a couple of updates on how things are doing with our internal project focusing on retail shopping experiences. We’ve wrapped up our research and concepting and … Continue reading →

 

Do More with Less

 

We have written previously on the topic of Innovating In A Time Of Recession. As corporate earnings continue to plunge and the economic recovery is still but a speck of light in a long, dark tunnel, many of our business … Continue reading →