Killer Microsoft Surface Applications

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 [...]

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Still Surfacing – More of manifest’s MS Surface Table Application from interaction ’09

I have to admit, it’s pretty damn cool to see the impact of your work in action. Especially the comments, opinions and feedback from people you don’t even know. Case in point – our manifest team continues to discover more content posted to the great Interweb about the Microsoft Surface Table application we built for [...]

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Our Surface Table Application and Badges Are Mentioned. Cool!

After what seemed a whirlwind of crazy awesomeness, I arrived back home from the IxDA interaction 09 conference last night. In the midst of playing some catch up today from being out of the office, I decided to scour the Internet a bit looking for comments and feedback about manifest’s sponsorship of interaction 09 and [...]

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Learnings from Day 1 of the interaction 09 Conference

The experience designer in me can’t help but observe how people are interacting with our interaction 09 Surface Table application. Some quick insights… When designed appropriately, a Surface Table application can be extremely engaging. Not sure if it’s the technology that’s creating the “wow” factor of the application. It seems to really be both. The [...]

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FINALLY, our Surface Table Arrives at interaction ’09

FINALLY, our Surface Table Arrives at interaction ’09

After a crazy long journey from Chicago, through Canadian Customs and then the Four Seasons Hotel, our Microsoft Surface Table has FINALLY arrived. Specifically, that’s moving 379 pounds across more than 1,700 miles into another country (from Chicago to Vancouver), through many over Canadian Customs hurdles and tireless Jim Jacoby phone calls totaling at least [...]

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