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Useful for research too:
"there will be occasions when you need to record interviews remotely. While there are a handful of ways to do this, one of the most popular is making a call over the Skype VOIP service and recording the results. It’s popular not only because Skype-to-Skype calls are free, but because Skype generally has good voice quality and there are a variety of tools for capturing Skype calls. Here are the steps for using one of those tools."
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Uploading your images to the web or sharing them by email is an essential part of showing off your work to others. But what about copyright? Although you can put statements on websites, or use Flickr’s copyright features, images can easily be downloaded with the best intentions but separated from your contact info. Once someone has an image of yours and wants to get hold of you, how can they?
This tutorial shows you how to use Photoshop to embed your contact details and copyright info in to images you share with others.
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Adding a watermark to your images is a good way of preventing them being used inappropriately by others, and for branding your pictures. This short tutorial uses Photoshop to apply text and image-based watermarks.
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"The eye is not simply a camera, but the first stage in a system for understanding the world around us. There are around 50 different types of processing neuron in the retina, and more than 20 types of retinal ganglion cell. So the visual cortex of the brain expects to receive the visual world encoded in a "neural song" of many different voices. Precise coding to reproduce this song is hard to achieve with implanted electrodes and the result is that the patient sees phosphenes – flashing dots of light – rather than what we would normally define as sight."
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"Until relatively recently a word wasn't recognised as such until it was recorded in a proper dictionary. Now neologisms are pouring into the language like never before; our vocabulary is being reshaped by texters, tweeters, bloggers, marketeers and have-a-go contributors. Slang used to take decades to cross the Atlantic; now it takes minutes."
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"Philip Long, senior curator at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, was yesterday named as the man at the helm of a brand-new museum for Scotland to be built on the shores of the River Tay with a £45 million budget."
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'It is not uncommon for manufacturers to commission exciting young talents to populate their exhibition stands with eye-catching pieces that never hit the market. They may be widely published, win awards and earn the brand a reputation for innovation – and still not go into production. In that case, the designer won't make a penny. Most of the time they don't even get advances. "Ah, but think of the exposure, the PR value," the manufacturers argue. But without ample remuneration, designers will keep passing their lack of earnings down the food chain to their unpaid interns. As the British designer Ilse Crawford puts it: "Designers often end up being voluntary workers for millionaires."'
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"The latest generation of smartphones are increasingly viewed as handheld computers rather than as phones, due to their powerful on-board computing capability, capacious memories, large screens and open operating systems that encourage application development. This paper provides a brief state-of-the-art overview of health and healthcare smartphone apps (applications) on the market today, including emerging trends and market uptake."
Design Studies at Dundee
Design thinking in practice
