@George_Cave

🕹🎚 Tweets about hardware interfaces & physical UX. 🕵️‍♂️🤹‍♂️👨‍🏫12 years as a design engineer / interaction technologist. Visiting faculty & speaker.

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Joined May 2010
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Love coming across cool Octopus Agile related tech. Very neat eInk display. interactionmagic.com/Octopus…

Octopus, solar & e-paper energy dashboards

I built a custom energy dashboard for my house using this beautiful, 2-bit colour, e-paper display. Hardware, software, data and design.

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What if you could point your phone at a delivery drone and see what it was doing? Had a chat with @George_Cave of Apian yesterday about national drone delivery networks, and got to speculating about a public "right to know" what's above our heads
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Damn pandas, taking all our jobs
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Strong "Enemy of the State bag-drop" vibes from the indoor 3d views in this Google Maps clip. youtube.com/watch?v=3EwZQddc…

Enemy of the state - Freeze,Rotate,Zoom,Focus,Enhance!

Enemy of the state uses state of the art technology... (cough)Ene...

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the next generation of google maps was just revealed and it looks absolutely incredible 🤯
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It’s 2023, and we now teach children about nature by growing virtual plants with NFC tags…
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Why would a gov.uk website have opening hours?
Screenshot with text: Change your address online. Use this service to change the address in your log book to a new UK address. This service is available from 7am to 8pm. To use this service, you must be the vehicle's registered keeper. Start now.

ALT Screenshot with text: Change your address online. Use this service to change the address in your log book to a new UK address. This service is available from 7am to 8pm. To use this service, you must be the vehicle's registered keeper. Start now.

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Finally found the answer to which is correct: bbc.com or bbc.co.uk
Turns out the hardest part of threading a new tube line through central London was squeezing it on the map. These new super-diagonal-junctions are pretty ugly and hard to read. Was this really the best design solution?
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Does everyone else just copy/paste the repo name into the box below? If I were @github, I'd definitely put a secret zero-width unicode character in the middle of the string to track who doesn't bother typing it out themselves...
Screenshot of Github website dialog box to change repository visibility.

ALT Screenshot of Github website dialog box to change repository visibility.

This is so cool! Last Wednesday, Sensor Watch was front and center at a @tudelft workshop on building minimal user interfaces. @George_Cave led students through imagining new applications for the humble Casio wristwatch, and Sensor Watch allowed them to actually wear their ideas!
Photo: a man helping someone put on a wristwatch. The watch has some additional wires and circuit boards velcro'ed to the strap.

ALT Photo: a man helping someone put on a wristwatch. The watch has some additional wires and circuit boards velcro'ed to the strap.

Photo: close up of the watch displaying "Hi". In the background, a computer screen mirrors the watch display.

ALT Photo: close up of the watch displaying "Hi". In the background, a computer screen mirrors the watch display.

Photo: A workshop participant shooting a video of the watch and the simulated display.

ALT Photo: A workshop participant shooting a video of the watch and the simulated display.

Photo: a workshop participant holds his laptop sideways to show off his segment LCD design: a face with raised eyebrows, and a mouth agape in surprise.

ALT Photo: a workshop participant holds his laptop sideways to show off his segment LCD design: a face with raised eyebrows, and a mouth agape in surprise.

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“The only Game Boy accessory designed to drug children” Strong Nintendo Pedisedate vibes from Dyson’s product launch today…
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Teaching a new remote design course this week. My go to Miro warmup: pick you favourite food emoji and draw it in 1 minute. Yum. 🌮🥩🍜🥣🍆🥞
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@George_Cave shared with us how Metaphor Driven Design can help us consider our solutions and products in a broader lens (ever think of your non-users? i.e. how pedestrians interact with self-driving cars)
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In two weeks I'll be on stage at this year's #IXDA Interaction 22 conference. 🚴‍♂️🛴🛵🚎🛸 It's a talk all about metaphors in mobility design, and helping to build more friendly, inclusive cities. 🎫Tickets & info: interaction22.ixda.org/ #IxD22
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Me: Can I change my currency from EUR to GBP please? Zoom: Please cancel your subscription, wait one year, create a new Zoom account with a new email, subscribe again and select your new currency. @Zoom 🧐
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Plot twist: you can keep the same email, but you have to "terminate" your account after cancelling. 🤷‍♂️
This is a terrible advert for buying washing powder but a superb advert for driving less.
Sarah 🍓@SarahJ_Berry24 Jan 2022
The real headline here is that it would take every single person in the UK to change how they wash their clothes to compensate for the environmental damage drivers are doing in just one mid-size London borough.
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🕹🎛👈 What does an emotional button look like? For the last 2 years I've been teaching courses in Interaction Technology & Prototyping. It's all about exploring life beyond the screen. More details and examples of the creative outcomes from the students in the thread 🧵👇
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The best projects are the ones that don't need a label to identify the emotion. See if you can work out what Fredi's button here is communicating: 9/10
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Thanks for following! This course is a whole lot of fun to teach. If you want to learn more, plenty of other examples and details on the website here: interactionmagic.com/teachin… 10/10

Life beyond the screen

Since early 2020, I've been teaching courses in Interaction Technologies and Prototyping. Switches, light, gesture, motion, sound, haptics: this is all about exploring life beyond the screen.

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