Category: Digital products & Design

Diary, Digital products & Design

The fight against PIN

Well, this is not related to London, but… Since I came here, I needed to open new accounts a lot such as bank or mobile. The problem is always password or PIN. I can’t remember which one was for what, and I got locked out from the online banking a few days ago, and from my mobile as well. For online banking, I need ID number and PIN as well as “memorable word”, and have to type them all the time to log in. But they set lots of rules such as “within *** words” or type of characters or […]

Digital products & Design

!!!

A document which had taken so long to write has lost… It says something like “You are not permitted to access this file” and it has gone. Well, “not being saved” is likely to happen, but completely deleted? I don’t believe this. It’s like 10years ago…impossible.. I’m so shocked .

Art&Exhibitions, Books, Digital products & Design

Laws of Simplicity

As this books hasn’t been translated into Japanese, I reluctantly started to read it in English. And finally I finished it!!! John Maeda, a professor at the media labo in MIT, writes about “simplicity”. Althought the volume of the book itself it not so big…. …Difficult! So difficult! He uses a lot of examples of product design such as iPod or B&O, but some of stories are rather phylosophical matters based on his life experiences. Well, my English ability is not good enough, that’s all. He says: “Simplicity and complexity need each other.” “What lies in the periphery of simplicity […]

Digital products & Design

Forgot to buy a milk!

Well, you can avoid that by using this tool. Online ToDo management site, “Remember the milk“. As I liked its simple interface, and how it connects to other services such as Google, I started to use it recently. I think ToDo management is always critical factor for our works. But actually my ToDo is always hand-written down in a small note. I don’t know why but my brain works well when I’m hand-writing. However, recently I’ve got so many ToDo about my study that I decided to transfer some of them to online. Although it might be a bit too […]

Digital products & Design

iKnow!

I have joined another SNS again…well, I don’t expect much from its feature as SNS, but it’s a website for English leaners. It may be a bit difficult to become a good English speaker only with this, but at least it looks good enough to learn vocabulary. You can remember some words by “repeating” them. Afterall, that’s the most quick way to remember, isn’t that? Perhaps we need to have time to use them in actual conversations after this site… Oh, is the SNS for that? Anyway, it seems the intermediate and advanced course provide a quite good selection of […]

Digital products & Design

Is this iTunes’s bug???

I’m enjoying Radiohead on big volume now. An annoying week finally ended. Unknown bugs and errors, working for 33hours without sleeping, argueing with sales reps…Sorry I can’t reply to your messages. I don’t have much energy on weekdays… Well, now I’m using iTunes but…I can’t see the reason, perhaps the recent update, but it changes its ganre into Japanese words. I mean, it changes “Rock” to “ロック”（katakana, Japanese) automatically. I changed the language setting to “English” and now it looks OK. Is it a bug? Or software’s specification? Isn’t it annoying a bit?