We’ve reinvented the wheel at least three or four times at Stimulant when it comes to doing UI in Cinder. Cinder is the perfect library for building fast and beautiful interactive applications. It is less perfect when it comes to building content heavy applications with lots of screens, text and layouts. To try to solve…
One of Stimulant’s specialties is designing experiences on new, next generation hardware. We were recently tasked with designing an interface for a 4K display, and we discovered a few things during that process that could give others a big head start.
We got the great news that our SXSW panel submission was selected by, well, all of you! Thank you. As the analog and digital worlds inch ever closer and closer to becoming nearly indistinguishable from one another, we believe it’s critical to understand how physical context of use informs design patterns for digital experiences. Stimulant’s…
Stimulant had a great time watching folks dance with #dBcube at the EMP Museum during the 2014 Decibel Festival, and are bringing it back to the Seattle Interactive Conference on October 15th and 16th. SIC isn’t really known for dance-offs, but perhaps we can change that! As part of the presentation, Microsoft and Stimulant will…
Stimulant is thrilled to announce the first-ever exhibition of The Cube, a new instrument for digital artwork. The Cube is a five-sided, internally-projected sculpture produced by Microsoft, displaying a digital art piece created by Stimulant which will be unveiled at the EMP Museum in Seattle as part of the 2014 Decibel Festival. The festival begins…
At Stimulant, we love touchscreens, data visualization, and data-driven, procedural graphics. Genentech’s BioOncology group brought us a project that allowed us to combine all four, whilst retooling how clinical oncologists visualize and understand medicine development pipelines. We thought we’d run down some of the techniques we used to design this interactive data visualization, focusing on planning and designing digital…
