Button Inputer I made a thing over the last few days that's changed how I work. I made a push-to-talk button for voice input with both fast ready time and fast local processing. As a maker, I find…
Voice to 3D I built a workflow with a voice interface to create and modify AI slop 3D models and then have them printed. This started after a conversation in June with Mike K about UX models for a…
Work Notes #2: 3D Generation Experiements I'm back after doing some consulting work. I’ve been looking at how a user can create 3D objects with AI. 1: First tried the simple to take 2D images and…
Work Notes #1 This week marks a new chapter for me, venturing into the realm of exploration and reflection as I transition from an extended tenure working on smart eyewear products to figuring out…
Circuit Board Evolution 3D is hard but not as hard as it used to be. This is the evolution of boards I designed while experimenting with connected devices. They are all based on the Electric Imp for…
Buttons & Dials Personal-touchscreen devices (phones/tablets) are increasingly used to control connected devices in the home. These are versatile but limited and shallow in their interaction…
Digits A single function display like a clock offers glancability and simultaneous access by multiple people that handheld screen interfaces do not. Digits is a general-purpose, wifi-connected…
Weather.com Hurricane Tracker Pulling in current data, the hurricane tracker for the Weather Channel can be used to follow live storm predictions or look at past storms. The experience is…
CMT Music Awards Twitter Tracker This Twitter tracker made for mobile browsers and live TV uses hardware accelerated CSS transforms for animations to provide a smooth smooth motion regardless of the…
Where does the money go? Esquire Magazine asked Stamen to reimagine the map of the United States. We created a map showing income gains and losses per county from people migrating around the US.
Paranormal Activity 3 At Stamen, we built a vote tracking map for the launch of Paranormal Activity 3 for Paramount. We tracked vote tweets for cities. The leaderboard map was continually updated to…
MoMA Talk to Me For the Talk to Me exhibit, the MoMA wanted Stamen to channel the ‘zeitgeist’ of the Internet. The exhibition catalog shows relationships of work based on artists’ connectedness on…
FCC Broadband Map Part of the National Broadband Map for the FCC, I explored a massive amount of data looking for stories to share. This was one of my first projects at Stamen and was my first…
MoMA Warhol Exhibit Site The MoMA asked Stamen to make a gallery for user-submitted videos in the style of Andy Warhol’s screen tests . Constrained with minimal infrastructure, HTML/javascript/Flash…
ConfessorApp The iPhone app for handling your lifestyle needs. Guilt for our actions and inactions, justified or not, can strike at anytime. Society’s tools for this are limited and haven’t adapted…
TwitWheel TwitWheel is a Twitter visualization and browser I developed for TalkWheel. We believe actions are stronger than ‘friends’ on the social internet. The TwitWheel shows tweets made to and…
Mobile Devices Background: I make accessories for mobile phones that bridge the gap between physical and virtual identities and communities. With the social internet, people can share parts of their…
tinyDancer The tinyDancer device measures how much the user is moving and displays this movement on the user’s online profile through a widget/app on Facebook, MySpace, or a blog. It is a realtime…
flickrNow The FlickrNow badge displays a user’s photo from Flickr which has been most recently viewed by others. This image is not only representing photos the user takes but also the content others…
mobileProtest The mobileProtest device allows people to spread information about a cause they support without the commitment of a direct action protest. Organizations register their cause with…
dataMob The dataMob movie illustrates a location-based device that displays one point of data from a statistical map. When lots of people wear the device, each person becomes a physical pixel of a…
Olinda Radio Experiments in the future of digital radio for the BBC including a social component and a hardware API. As a summer intern working on this project at Schulze & Webb (now BERG), I was…
Bluetooth Nipple Clamp This silent ring-tone accessory pinches the nipple when receiving a call or text-message. What is emotional design and how does it address our darker, private needs? This…
Mobile Penance A mobile phone software to confess your guilt. In our secular society, how do people deal with their guilt? Is there hope? Must we revert to a religious society? People nearby receive…