Some of the things we’ve been working on in the lab:
Custom Times Personalized Newspaper Box:

The Gadget Buffet:

The Digital Living Room and Google Earth:

Beet.tv recently interviewed Michael Zimbalist, the head of the R&D group I work in at The New York Times. He discusses some of the major themes and initiatives we are exploring.

This morning, I read an interesting discussion of Pentagram’s UI overhaul for Wells Fargo ATMs. You generally don’t see a lot of discussion of the unique UI design challenges inherent in working with a touch screen or kiosk. A kiosk user experience generally needs to be a very quick one, thus the number of [...]

An interesting interview with Kevin Fox on his UI design work for FriendFeed and Google. While I have my doubts about the visual design on all of the products he discusses, the interaction design is quite good, and the interview with Kevin is worth a read.
In the interview, he also mentions an older side project, [...]