to research and develop software that contributes to compelling and effective social interactions, with a focus on user-centered design processes and rapid prototyping.
by Jason - Color theory, "Four primary colors? Yes, why not? It’s the closest thing to the actual physiology without getting complex." (some pertinent info here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2166494)
Biomimicry & Taxonomy. "Nature's elegant solutions to building challenges include the Scots pine's adaptive growth, the thorny devil's passive water collection, and a leaf's on-site energy production. AskNature can help you solve your design challenges. "
MIT professor Neil Gershenfeld talks about his Fab Lab -- a low-cost lab that lets people build things they need using digital and analog tools. It's a simple idea with powerful results:
Why is transforming furniture so alluring? What if you could simply reuse packaging as part of a product rather than sending away for disposal or recycling? Flat pack furniture is exactly what it sounds like: furniture that starts out entirely as sheets
The Smileys(Emoticons) are used very often in the sentences of e-mails. They started in USA where the internet had also started of course. In Japan, the Smileys(Emoticons) grew in different manner from U.S.A. Now, there are several kinds of them.
The Unified Modeling Language™ - UML - is OMG's most-used specification, and the way the world models not only application structure, behavior, and architecture, but also business process and data structure.