Author Archives: chris

Thermo - Prototyping for designers

I’m a bit behind the times on this one, but for those who haven’t seen it:
Thermo is a new tool that allows designers to build applications. It allows them to start with a picture of an application, like what you do in photoshop, and to add the interactivity and behaviour without writing code
Watch the thermo [...]

Web 2.0 and social support

I stumbled across two presentations given at Melbourne University’s Interaction Design Group seminar last year. They discussed how “Web 2.0″ can be applied to support social interactions for the elderly, and how micro-blogging sites like Twitter effect percieved social support.
The first presentation (by Jeremy Smith) discussed the potential for social networks to aid phatic interactions [...]