(Mostly) Awesome

Hello, I'm Jenny Brown. I think the web is (mostly) awesome. Here are some of the things I've found on it.

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1 2014 starlings 00011 More here: http://www.fastcodesign.com/3025231/watch-the-amazing-flight-pattern-of-birds

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London From The Air - A Drone Film

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The dance of a murmuration of starlings

via Kottke.org

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"Connected appliances have the potential to be better designed, with new features, new services, and even new business models." By Berg

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Beautifully done. A must read for folks interested in usability and interface design.

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Insa creates art that can only be viewed online. The plan now is to experiment with augmented reality so that people can "experience the work firsthand through different viewing platforms."

http://mobile.theverge.com/2013/2/17/3997052/insa-gif-iti-art-interview

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Beautiful - as much fun with a lamp as you're ever going to have (via Designer Creates Real-Life ‘Pixar Lamp’ That Won’t Let You Switch It Off - DesignTAXI.com)

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Turn any surface into an iPhone keyboard! This keyboard app works by picking up minute vibrations on any surface. No need for projections of specialist 'surface' technology. Amazing.

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Always a fan of digital/real world collaborations...

Self-Updating Picture Frame Features Instagram Feeds In Real-Time via DesignTAXI.com

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Redesigning highway signs to talk to your smartphone. Via co.design

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Little Boxes ECAL/Joelle Aeschlimann (by ECAL)

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Love this.

Layar Creator - Welcome to Interactive Print (by layarmobile)

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"The key to learning to code is learning to think like a computer--which is a hard thing to do. "It requires structured thinking, ability to abstract details away, and there’s little margin for error--one little typo and your program might do something entirely different from what you wanted," says game developer Rui Viana. "The real world just doesn’t work like that, so it’s hard to get your head around it." Which is precisely why Viana created Cargo-Bot, a simple iPad app that turns "thinking like a computer" into a genuinely addictive puzzle game. It’s like  Angry Birds crossed with Codecademy, and it’s total genius."

-- fastcodesign.com review

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I've started a Pinterest board featuring mobile interfaces that catch my eye. It's a work in progress and I'll be adding to it as I go along.

It's made up of hardware and software interfaces that break moulds or just do simple things really well. The example below is a screenshot of Path. (Ex-)Privacy issues aside, Path is a lovely app to interact with, visual and playful and introduces nice new models of interaction.

Pay me a visit sometime.