If you haven’t seen or experienced Chat Roulette yet, it’s catching a lot of buzz lately. Both intriguing and extremely disturbing is how I’d describe it. WARNING: You’ll likely encounter lots of random situations and likely things you wish you wouldn’t have seen (your eyes may burn and you might go cry to your mom). [...]

What do you get when you mix Elvis’ 75th birthday, 1,000s of tech geeks and gambling? (Cue John Favreau and Vince Vaughn) “Vegas baby, Vegas!” It’s an annual tradition for me – visit mom for her birthday, celebrate Elvis’, hit up Monster Cable’s concert and of course check out all the great new ‘toys’ at [...]

If you’re not a Fast Company subscriber or reader, you should be. There’s always some good content. It’s not always the first to report, but it does provide a great breadth and depth of topics, particularly around design and technology. As a designer and techno-geek, Fast Company recently published a couple articles on “killer” Microsoft [...]

Recently, a student of my Interaction Design course at DePaul University asked about “ribbon” design in user interfaces. For you Microsoft Office users, you know what I mean – the new navigational element of the 2007 version. Anyway, she’s working on a fairly complex Windows-based application that is “used to drive specialized medical equipment that [...]

I recently interviewed someone that used Wordle for the cover of their portfolio. Intrigued, I thought I would check it out for myself. (Excuse me if I’m behind the times on this one.) From Wordle’s website… Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to [...]