June, 2013 | Geist

Data porn and ‘Interrogating the Algorithm’ pt I

On 27 Jun, 2013By guiheadz With 1 Comment

Ok – So howabout a bit of Data Porn? So firstly, OkCupid is a big dating site that are known for doing really interesting things with their data. And stats nerds like me get totally excited when presented with a huge body of data on which one can run really interesting regression models where a […]

Bondi Junction interchange, emergent behaviour and escalators

On 24 Jun, 2013By guiheadz With 4 Comments

Haha! This is terrific. A nice clear explanation of a phenomenon I have been observing and thinking about for a while – saves me having to write it all up. So I’m living in the Eastern suburbs right now, which means I frequently travel through Bondi Junction transport hub using public transport on my way […]

Links. And lots of ’em.

On 22 Jun, 2013By guiheadz With No Comments

This is just a quick, cheaty little post. Stumbled across a good little list of resources, blogs and the like, all to do with UX. It’s from a blogpost by U1 – an interesting UX firm here in Sydney. Link here.

Two cases of Interface fail: Hotmail font meltdown and Gmail vs the Gestaltists.

On 20 Jun, 2013By guiheadz With 1 Comment

Ok, let’s look at a real life example of total GUI design fail. Or perhaps, not a total fail, but just bad design that manages to get by because it’s not catastrophic and therefore doesn’t get fixed but instead slows everybody down just a little – which is arguably worse. I use a Hotmail email […]

Genevieve Bell, Empiricism and a crisis of faith

On 17 Jun, 2013By guiheadz With 1 Comment

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_kNQXqQ4_4] I had my mind blown and some assumptions challenged recently when I attended a seminar by Genevieve Bell as part of the ISEA symposium in Sydney last week. She was terrific – both an incredibly polished presenter, and obviously playing with some really interesting ideas (as well as being both funny and quite […]