InteractivEverything

A blog for everything Interactive Design related.

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[1hr Design] Workout App

I’m really enjoying learning Figma and getting to use all the plugins that have come out. I wanted to do a quick little design to test out some of the plugins I don’t get to use too much like Blobs and Chromatic Figma.

Did this little 1 page app in under and hour. I think I want to make this a thing!

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Full Length / Live Face Projection Mapping with Kat Von D

by Wildbytes

A live / real-time face projection mapping where 3D rendered images were projected over Kat Von D’s face, following accurately her movements. Custom software and a high-end tracking system were used to track her body movements and adapt the projection content in real-time to her torso, neck and face. ALL the images in the video were projected live and no VFX has been added afterwards. The original music composition was played live by a string quartet that shared the stage with her in an unbelievable night of makeup, cutting-edge innovation and tons of emotion.

CREDITS

On Stage Performance Kat Von D

Project Direction Julio Obelleiro

Creative & Lead Art Direction Casilda Sánchez

Art Direction Guillem Castellvi

Production Designer Daniel Torrico

3D and VFX artists Manuel Cámara Nachei Sánchez Juanjo Bernabeu Carlos Diéguez

Creative Coding Nacho Cossío Carles Gutierrez Eduardo Jiménez

Production and Project Management Andrés Moreno Leticia Buenadicha Jorge Torrico

Music Composition and Direction Alicia Reyes

Musicians Carlos Camara Rafael Martínez Rocío Lopez Emilio Maravella

[life-of-beyonce]

Powerful Message: So today Usher & Nas & Bibi Bourelly released a new protest song called “Chains (Don’t Look Away)” on TIDAL and an interactive experience has been added making sure you don’t look away. - “Whilst racial injustice keeps killing, society keeps looking away”

[black--lamb-blog]

woah

[ixdsgn]

To listen to Usher’s song #Chains, look straight in the eyes of victims of racial injustice at chains.Tidal.com #DontLookAway

I highly recommend checking out this interactive piece for Usher’s new song “Chains”. It intends to make us stare into the faces of victims of police shootings.

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edHCxEMyL68)

What do you think of the UI in the new Mercedes Benz F 015 driverless vehicle?

[ixdsgn]

Your UI isn’t a Disney Movie

My previous short article about gratuitous animation really struck a chord with people. The response has been phenomenal…

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Mirror Mirror

Augmented tech project from myDesign ID KAIST lets users customise the visual design of clothing using a depth camera, projection and a mirror:

Magic mirrors superimpose virtual clothing over viewers’ mirror image to let them evaluate fashion items without actually wearing them. We contribute the mirror Mirror system that supports not only mixing and matching existing fashion items, but also lets users design new items in front of the mirror and export designs to fabrication devices. Mirror Mirror makes use of spatial augmented reality and a mirror Virtual garments are visible both on the body for precise manipulation as well as in the reflection to obtain a third person perspective. While much previous work deals with re-texturing and registering virtual garments to live user data, we focus on collaborative design and show various ways of designing using real bodies as mannequins. 

More Here

[prostheticknowledge]

An image recognition network dreams about every object it knows. Part 2/2: non-animals

Second video from Ville-Matias Heikkilä uses deep-dream like technique to visually reveal a collected neural dataset, this time featuring man-made objects and food:

Network used: VGG CNN-S (pretrained with Imagenet) There are 1000 output neurons in the network, one for each image recognition category. In this video, the output of each of these neurons is separately amplified using backpropagation (i.e. deep dreaming). The middle line shows the category title of the amplified neuron. The bottom line shows the category title of the highest competing neuron. Color coding: green = amplification very succesful (second tier far behind), yellow = close competition with the second tier, red = this is the second tier. Some parameters adjusted mid-rendering, sorry.

Link

The first video (on the animal dataset) can be found here

[uxdesignresource]

While sometimes it can be easy to identify a bad User Interface, other times certain negative aspects go unnoticed because maybe you are too close to the product or you do not know what to look for. Scott Hurff offers an excerpt from his book ‘Designing Products People Love’ that helps identify bad UI, but more importantly it offers many ways to fix a bad User Interface <bit.ly/1TX9P0e>

[homedesigning]

(via Solar Powered Lounger Will Charge Gadgets in Glowing Style)

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Level of confidence: Open-source art memorial to the missing - New Scientist

Green points and lines plot out your features, taking stock of what makes your face unique. The haunting expressions of young men stare back impassively, as a progress bar marks how far the software has got in matching your face with one of theirs.

This is Level of Confidence – a chilling and moving work by Mexican artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer. Currently on show at Baltan Laboratories in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, this work is a response to the kidnapping of 43 student teachers in the city of Iguala, Mexico, in September last year.

The students had been protesting over teachers’ wages and union rights before they were rounded up, taken into the hills and, it is believed, turned over to a local drugs cartel. Most people think they were killed and their bodies burned – drug-related atrocities are all too common in the Guerrero part of Mexico.

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Connected Worlds

Project by Design I/O is a huge interactive installation for children for the New York Hall of Science, featuring an ecosystem of virtual animals to play with:

Connected Worlds is a large scale immersive, interactive ecosystem developed for the New York Hall of Science. The installation is composed of six interactive ecosystems spread out across the walls of the Great Hall, connected together by a 3000 sqft interactive floor and a 45ft high waterfall. Children can use physical logs to divert water flowing across the floor from the waterfall into the different environments, where they can then use their hands to plant seeds. As the different environments bloom, creatures appear based on the health of the environment and the type of plants growing in it. If multiple environments are healthy creatures will migrate between them causing interesting chain reactions of behaviors. Connected Worlds is designed to encourage a systems thinking approach to sustainability where local actions in one environment may have global consequences. Children work with a fixed amount of water in the system and have to work together to manage and distribute the water across the different environments. Clouds return water from the environments to the waterfall which releases water to the floor when it rains.

More Here

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[hypersexualfangirl-deactivated2]

file this under the shit-load of under appreciated people who you never learn about in school

[fanboy-trav-deactivated20190424]

By fucking hand, bro.

[tarynel]

you always hear about the first man on the moon but never this 

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Projections by Aakash Nihalani

[shumbodynamedharry]

From big screens to small screens to no screens at all. Microsoft HoloLense is the future.

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Hour of Code Video Chat with Usher

Hour of code ambassador, Usher answers questions pertaining to how usage of internet has changed the music industry. Despite minor technical difficulties in the beginning the video offers an insightful look into how the internet has affected the making and delivering of music from an artist’s perspective. Plus, Usher looked super cute (as always) so that’s motivation to watch.

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The Hour of Code worldwide: From Gaza to Brazil to Venezuela to India and Chicago, IL and Houston, TX.