Ben Brown

I'm the CEO of XOXCO - a product designer and developer passionate about digital publishing, online community, and software design. On the web since 1996!

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  1. Posts tagged hacking

  2. Unintended consequences - I can mix two images together into a generative polygonal drawing.

    Yes, I crossed Justin Bieber and Paul Krugman.

    posted 2 months ago on Mar 25, 2013 | Permalink | 7 notes

  3. Aware.js: Now Lunch Aware

    From the XOXCO Blog:

    The core idea of reader aware design is that interactive experiences can and should respond to the specific characteristics of a user and their context. Previously, we discussed using details of a user’s relationship with a site — are they a first time visitor, or an every day regular? Now, we move beyond the site, breaking away from a user’s digital context to their analog, real life context: is this person at home? At work? In bed? At lunch? How can your site best serve readers in these different environments?

    Continue Reading…

    posted 4 months ago on Jan 16, 2013 | Permalink | 4 notes

  4. In honor of my last post hitting the Tumblr Radar, I would like to make some custom polygon pictures for folks out there using my new experimental tool that creates quasi-random generative art out of photos. For example, the above image was based on “The Scream” by Edward Munch.
Send me a photo or a link to a photo you’d like VECTORIZED, and I will post the resulting photo here on my blog. Up close photos of faces against dark backgrounds work well, as do bright and colorful landscape photos.

    In honor of my last post hitting the Tumblr Radar, I would like to make some custom polygon pictures for folks out there using my new experimental tool that creates quasi-random generative art out of photos. For example, the above image was based on “The Scream” by Edward Munch.

    Send me a photo or a link to a photo you’d like VECTORIZED, and I will post the resulting photo here on my blog. Up close photos of faces against dark backgrounds work well, as do bright and colorful landscape photos.

    posted 5 months ago on Dec 5, 2012 | Permalink | 19 notes

  5. See more of my generative art, and maybe make some of your own using the same tools I use.

    See more of my generative art, and maybe make some of your own using the same tools I use.

    posted 5 months ago on Dec 5, 2012 | Permalink | 2,150 notes

  6. This math really seeks out neck ties.

    This math really seeks out neck ties.

    posted 5 months ago on Dec 5, 2012 | Permalink | 70 notes

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