Pace and interaction design
Last summer, my friend Bill walked several hundred miles of the Camino de Santiago, a 1,000-year-old pilgrimage route through Spain and France. He started off carrying a 40-pound pack, which contained...
View ArticleOne-minute history of time
Our basic clocks are experiences like the rhythms of tides, seasons, sunrise and sunset, heartbeats and menstrual cycles. In the Medieval world, space and time were just “there”, an unchanging backdrop...
View ArticleKids and time
A child, playing with the same toy over and over again, lives in a single seamless moment from dawn to dusk. She is living outside time, or maybe deeply within it. Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget’s...
View ArticleSome Timely Books
This is reading list is for my talk this weekend at SXSW Interactive, It’s About Time: Visualizing Temporality, at 9:30 am Saturday, March 12. About Time: Einstein’s Unfinished Revolution—Paul Davies,...
View ArticleWhat of Time?
And an astronomer said, Master, what of Time? And he answered: You would measure time the measureless and the immeasurable. You would adjust your conduct and even direct the course of your spirit...
View ArticleTime is our sandbox
I love these notes Jess Hanesbury took on my talk this morning at SXSW Interactive 2011. #temporality on Twitter to see other comments. Thanks to all of you for coming to hear me talk. Keep up the...
View ArticleText of my SXSW presentation
Here’s the text of my talk at SXSW Interaction 2011, March 12, 2011 It’s about time: visualizing temporality Slide 1 Hi My name is Joanna Wiebe; I’m an interaction designer and I work in e-commerce....
View ArticleHigh-wire dancing
Guest post by Lauren Patten, New York City At 7:15 on the morning of August 7th, 1974, Philippe Petit stepped off of the South Tower of the World Trade Center and began his forty-five minute...
View ArticleLunchtime clock
James W. Clardy at Dell told me about this lunchtime clock. It speeds up 20% every day at 11:00 and slows down 20% every day at 11:48, giving you an extra twelve minutes of lunch to enjoy. Twelve...
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