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Imagine you are a painter and a salesman tells you that you should get rid of your tools in order to have more space in your studio. "Your workspace is not cluttered by all the other things like brushes and colors. What matters is the painting, not the tools!"

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When you knead clay, you have a direct experience of what you are doing. You feel the clay on your skin, its resistance and its smell. But there is more to it than just senses. Action equals changing something here in its very physical appearance. What you do and think …

I am involved in organizing a lecture/workshop series (so called "Werkmodul") that aims for teaching interaction design at the Bauhaus. This is done in cooperation with Mozilla who contacted some great people and asked if they could mentor the students. I was very happy to hear that Cennydd Bowles …

Since the iPhone introduced capacitive touch screens to the consumer market we have touch gestures all around. Gestures are movements that are recognized and trigger a function. Web OS uses this heavily e.g. for closing applications, Apple uses them e.g. for making buttons for deleting mails visible.

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