October 2006

UX Magazine / Tom Guarriello – Experiencing Experience

By |2008-10-05T14:43:57-07:00October 31st, 2006|Design, Web|

By Tom Guarriello - From UX Magazine "Experience" is the new "black." Very hip, very now. It's impossible to read any publication even remotely concerned with commerce and not find some reference to "user" or "customer" experience. As a psychologist who's spent over 30 years focusing on human experience, this newfound attention is fascinating. After all, for most of the 19th and 20th centuries, what mattered most about people were [...]

Speed Racer: The 1960’s Version of the Future (Part 3)

By |2008-10-05T15:04:35-07:00October 30th, 2006|The Future|

I used to watch Speed Racer when it aired on MTV late at night (back in the mid-1990). It was then that I knew I loved retro-futurism. Speed Racer (originally called Mach Go Go Go) was first created by anime pioneer Tatsuo Yoshida (1933-1977) as a manga series in the 1960s and made the jump to TV as an anime series in 1967. The central character in the anime and [...]

THX 1138: The 1960’s Version of the Future (Part 2)

By |2008-10-05T15:07:38-07:00October 20th, 2006|Design, The Future|

Before you read this post - please note that it's long - but interesting. This is the second post in a series that details visions of the future (from the 1960's). In addition, you should know that content from this post was appropriatly borrowed from Wikipedia and the offical THX 1138 movie web site - see references at the end of this post. THX 1138 is a motion picture made [...]

Thunderbirds: The 1960’s Version of the Future (Part 1)

By |2008-10-05T15:08:31-07:00October 10th, 2006|The Future|

One of my favorite things in this world is the exploration of "future" as dipected in 1960's pop culture. This post introduces the Thunderbirds - a TV series that ran in the UK during the mid-sixties. The content was quoted from a Wikipedia entry. Set in the 21st century (stated to be 2026 in the series, retconned to 2066 in the movie Thunderbirds Are GO), Thunderbirds depicts the adventures of [...]

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