A perfect example of how a product’s experience can be severely damaged by a feature-centric approach instead of a narrative one.
Thanks to Alok, I had the opportunity to get my hands on the new Philips “Living Color” line of LED lamps. He asked for some insight for a similar, yet much more interesting, project of [...]

Every once in a while I bump into one of Logitech’s unholly offspring.
Last time was when I discovered that Wired gave 8 of 10 to the hideous Harmony One universal remote control. This kind of device is the ultimate  symptom of a grave illness that plagues most of our home appliances: the feature cancer.
I won’t [...]

(…) three products generated the most passion in the gizmosphere: Nintendo’s Wii, Activision’s Guitar Hero series, and Apple’s iPhone. (We know, they were released earlier, but in 2008 they dominated the zeitgeist.) What do they have in common, besides creating happy shareholders and long lines at stores? They all integrate the digital world into the [...]

After watching this video, I felt sad. Windows bashing leaves a bitter taste in my mouth now, I’d like to help.
Come on Microsoft, what are you doing? What we see on the video is just a lame copy of an Apple demo, the passage with the piano is so embarrassing. Your engineers are brilliant — [...]