Modern sea side homes

When you have such expensive real estate you really cant put anything other than buildings with such a massive foot print to justify the cost paid for the land.

Work @ home

Manitoba sky

under the road

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goodbye UI

Its been a while, I've since found a job, and I now design for a living. What I still can't stop thinking about is UI design, not my particular field of design work, but still an interest of mine. I may not understand the nuances in the evolution of UI but some pretty evident shifts are starting to take place.  First look at these:

iOS

Android

Whats striking is once you find something that works, you really are loath to change it even if the market is moving ahead of you. Microsoft did it with windows phone 6 and 6.5, Windows 7 is showing signs of it, and now Apple has fallen into this habit with iOS.

Still, these are all very flat interfaces. We still are not seeing Ironman esque UIs but we are getting closer. Google is pushing forward with there Glass project, and art projects like there are starting to show up:

The V Motion Project from Assembly on Vimeo.

One day I'll get my wearable computing, until then I'll trudge through traditional UIs while I design my buildings.

Future Tech

I am just going to copy this whole sale from a recent interview on The Verge with Frank X. Shaw

What will define whatever the next wave is in technology?
I think more human and machine interaction. If you look back to the internet originally, the only people who could use it were essentially programmers. When the web came out, people who were mortals could use it, and have access to it, but it taught everybody weird skills. So if you wanted to find something, you'd pick your search engine of choice and you'd type in ten words, and you would learn search strings to narrow it down, because that was just the way it worked. As this has evolved, it's gotten better. In some cases you can get what you want by asking in natural language for stuff. As the processes become more and more powerful, the ability to do that close to where you work gets higher and higher.
The idea that every surface is a display, every device has a chip in it - that's something that's coming. When that happens, you've got all that local processing power, and I think people will be able to do really interesting things with natural language and expression.

 source

 Really looking forward to what future tech generates... another bit of media out of microsoft:

and more recently:

Disclose.tv - Microsoft's vision of the Post PC future Video

Steve Jobs

"... The world has lost an amazing human being."