The real world establishes the paradigm that science fiction then extends. Authors Nathan Shedroff and Chris Noessel are working on a book to explore that design relationship.
Missing Partial Conversation
It is no longer possible to see @reply conversation directed at people not already in your follow network. There are several issues that arise from this change, but the great sin of Twitter may be a UX problem.
Open Design
Mozilla Labs invites anyone with an idea to offer it to the world for critique and iterative exploration. Welcome to open source, design.
Design Concept Hook-ups
At Ubicomp this fall, Scott Davidoff—a doctoral student at CMU—presented a design method for rapid exploration of design concepts. Design practice usually involves sketching and prototyping, but Davidoff argues that it is vital to give time in between to exploring user experience. Enter speed dating.
ClipMarks addiction
I’ll admit it. I’m addicted. ClipMarks turns out to fit very well with my existing Internet habits, and it has been a lot of fun to use. The site—which allows you to copy selected images and text from a web page to put some content with the URL—just got bought by Forbes, a company that has expressed some interest in the community for several months.