Author Archives: Eero

Eero Louhenperä is a digital ninja, user experience consultant and company adviser who has dabbled in the web for nearly two decades. He specialises in information architecture, interaction design, usability and user research.

Prior to founding Modula, he worked with really smart people creating web applications and technology infrastructures for clients of all sizes.

He is at home in Rauma, Finland with two cats and a beautiful woman.

Three “laws” of prediction

When a dis­tin­guished but eld­erly sci­ent­ist states that some­thing is pos­sible, he is almost cer­tainly right. When he states that some­thing is impossible, he is prob­ably wrong. The only way of dis­cov­er­ing the lim­its of the pos­sible is to ven­ture a little way past them into the impossible. Any suf­fi­ciently advanced tech­no­logy is indis­tin­guish­able from magic. by […]

Man & computer

The film Man & Com­puter, made in 1965 by IBM’s UK branch, provides a basic under­stand­ing of com­puter oper­a­tions. A large por­tion of the film shows the ways in which a com­puter can be sim­u­lated by five people using the stand­ard office equip­ment of the day. Start­ing in the 1940s, IBM became a major pro­du­cer of […]

Back in business

We spent spent June on the road, tak­ing an East­ern Europe tour. Par­don our break in posting.

Web 3

A story about the Semantic Web by Kate Ray. Inter­views with: Tim Berners-Lee, Clay Shirky, Chris Dixon, David Wein­ber­ger, Nova Spi­vack, Jason Shel­len, Lee Fei­gen­baum, John Hebeler, Alon Halevy, David Kar­ger, Abra­ham Bernstein

Apollo 11 Saturn V launch

This clip is raw from Cam­era E-8 on the launch umbil­ical tower/mobile launch pro­gram of Apollo 11, July 16, 1969. This is an HD trans­fer from the 16mm ori­ginal. The cam­era is run­ning at 500 fps, mak­ing the total clip of over 8 minutes rep­res­ent just 30 seconds of actual time. Nar­ra­tion is provided by […]

Interlude

Chisu — Baden-Baden Enjoy.

Pixels

New York inva­sion by 8-bits creatures by Patrick Jean.

Home

HOME a film by Yann Arthus-Bertrand. Watch it at Youtube.

Evil interfaces?

A good inter­face is meant to help users achieve their goals as eas­ily as pos­sible. But an “evil” inter­face is meant to trick users into doing things they don’t want to — mis­dir­ec­tion of brows­ing, forced view­ing of advert­ise­ments, mal­ware that mas­quer­ades as anti-virus soft­ware, and pre-checked check­boxes for unwanted “spe­cial offers”. Evil inter­faces are […]

A world without planes

North­ern Europe, April 18, 2010 at 15:00. A screen cap­ture from flightradar24.com, which shows live air­plane traffic from dif­fer­ent parts around the world.