First IoT steps

By Thomas Deneuville | May 15, 2017

I have been building with Arduino for a while and one of my initial goals was to connect one to the Internet and experiment. Finally, I have decided to take the next step towards this goal. IoT hardware There are many ways to connect an Arduino (I use Uno for now but I might get a Mega soon—more…

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Amazon Echo: Two new devices in 14 days

By Thomas Deneuville | May 9, 2017

On April 26, Amazon introduced a new device in the Echo ecosystem. From Amazon Developer’s Blog: “Echo Look is a hands-free camera and style assistant that helps customers look their best. Using just their voice, customers can take full-length photos and short videos so they can see themselves from every angle and create lookbooks using…

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To Be Designed

By Thomas Deneuville | April 27, 2017
Cocktail hour by yumikrum -CC BY 2.0

On Tuesday, April 25, I attended To Be Designed, a one-day virtual conference produced by Rosenfeld Media. Topics were AI and UX heavy—awesome. The speakers were stellar. My notes are copious and I will probably have to watch some presentations again to absorb ideas. What are my key takeaways? IoT is about service Mike Kuniavsky‘s talk,  The UX…

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Hemingweek

By Thomas Deneuville | February 15, 2014

  For some weird reason, Hemingway’s name has popped up a lot this week. I have been reading The Old Man and the Sea, but that’s not really what this post is about. Even though it looks like it was released back in August, I only learned about a web app called Hemingway this week (H/T…

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Apple’s Aural Skeuomorphism Lingers

By Thomas Deneuville | August 24, 2013

I have finally installed iOS 7 (beta 5—haven’t had time to follow up with the latest builds) and I am extremely enthusiastic about the whole thing: Same but very different, very gracious gestures and clever shortcuts, slimmer typography, play on transparencies, parallax, etc. Well, I was actually really excited until I tried to change a…

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