UX Thought Widget No. 3
Five Qualities of Smart Products: 1. They put idle cycles to work 2. They remember user traits 3. They pay attention and learn the patterns of day-to-day use 4. They remember choices and defaults 5....
View ArticleMarcos Zotes ‘Pixel Cloud’ Turns Scaffolding Into Story Space
PIXEL CLOUD from UNSTABLE on Vimeo. Architect Marcos Zotes and his UNSTABLE Lab which aim to be ‘a multidisciplinary design and research laboratory that explores the social and political aspects of...
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The Task Analysis Process and What It Should Reveal… 1. The people who complete the task and their role 2. The frequency and importance of the task 3. Things that must be in place to complete the task...
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Researcher Susan Carey’s Definition of a Mental Model. (From her 1996 Paper “Cognitive Science and Science Education “A mental model represents a person’s thought process for how something works (i.e.,...
View ArticleConcepts from IDEO’s ‘The Future of the Book’
The Future of the Book. from IDEO on Vimeo. Dated but worthwhile—a concept reel for IDEO’s The Future of the Book. What might the book of the future look and act like? IDEO offers three unique visions...
View Article6 Reasons Adobe’s Subscription Software Model is Already A Fail
Adobe System Incorporated, creators of Adobe Creative Suite—the de facto design software package for media professionals announced today their plan to move to a subscription only software offering. A...
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Sound Poster 1.0 Allows People to Create Music Via Conductive Paint
SOUND POSTER 1.0 from Trapped in Suburbia on Vimeo. Conductive glass, metal and now, conductive paint point the way toward a situated and immersive creative tools and artefacts with Sound Poster 1.0;...
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Stephen Few’s 8 Principles of Usable Information Dashboards 1. They support meaningful comparisons 2. They delineate groups 3. They co-locate items in the same grouping 4. They discourage meaningless...
View ArticleMovie: Connecting. The Future of Interaction Design and UX
Connecting from Microsoft Design on Vimeo. It’s Important to look at what the consequences are of putting these products into the world…The ways it’s changed our behavior, it can be enabling and it...
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Issues and Limitations of Learning From Experience by Jeff Johnson. 1. Complex situations involve many variables subject which are subject to a variety of forces which make it difficult for people to...
View ArticleAtrocity Exhibit: Will Love Tear Us Apart? Game Concept and the World of Dark...
When routine bites hard / And ambitions are low ~Love Will Tear Us Apart | Joy Division Love Will Tear Us Apart ( Proper) Joy Division fans; unite and remember for a moment, what led frontman Ian...
View ArticleCuppetelli + Mendoza’s ‘Transposition': Large Scale Interface Explores...
Transposition (2013) from Cristobal Mendoza on Vimeo. Interactive installation ‘Transposition’ by artistic team Cuppetelli and Mendoza now on display at the Denver Museum of Art, is a room sized...
View ArticleOrCam: Wearable Assistive Technology Comes of Age for the Visually Impaired
The challenges of creating interfaces are not just about issues of technological potential, they are about our humanity and the our ability to empathize and then extrapolate insights to design and...
View ArticleLeah Buley’s User Experience Team of One
UX Week 2008 | Leah Buley | Being a UX Team of One from Adaptive Path on Vimeo. UX Design Leah Buley has been giving her talk on being a one-person UX team for years now including a SXSW presentation....
View ArticleNike FC247 #MiPista Project Allows Urban Soccer Players to Create Soccer...
Instead of rocks and cones, Soccer players in any one of six neighborhoods in Madrid, Spain can now have a soccer court laser-projected on to any space to play on thanks to Nike’s Sports Spain. Part...
View ArticleVideo & Manifesto from Artefact Group: ’21st Century Design’ Re-Thinks User...
MIX11 UX inspiration: 21st Century Design from Artefact on Vimeo. August from the Artefact Group gives a rousing and though-provoking assessment of the failures and successes of User Centered Design...
View ArticlePixie Scientific Developing Smart Diaper for Early Detection of Infant Illnesses
Learn More… >>Visit Pixie Scientific Website >>Support Pixie Scientific via their Indiegogo
View ArticleDavid Cronenberg Incises Cyber-Singularity w/POD Recommendation Engine from...
“We’re pleased to announce POD (Personal On-Demand), the first release in our BODY MIND CHANGE™ series. This next generation recommendation engine knows what you want before you do.”—from Body/Mind...
View ArticleConstellacion: An Emergent A/V Installation via Creative Applications Network
Pan Generator’s brain child Constellacion, is an ambient A/V installation that premiered at Transformation Festival whose theme this year was ‘empowering people via news tools such as 3d printing and...
View ArticlePassion of Reflektion: Arcade Fire Delights On New Album w/Hidden Track...
Over the past month, I’ve written a couple of quick pieces on Arcade Fire through the release cycle for their new double album Reflektor, not only as a fan of their music, but also, as an experience...
View ArticleWilliam Milner’s Talk ‘When We Build’ Examines Paradigms of Direct...
Wilson Miner – When We Build from Build on Vimeo.
View ArticleAmbient Responsive “Digital Curtain” Premiers at Saturday in Design Festival
The Digital Curtain from Alison Loader on Vimeo.
View ArticleMeason Wiley’s ‘Cymatics’ Research Reveals the Shape of Sound
Earlier Small Scale Cymatics Prototype: Meason Wiley’s Cymatics Research Demonstration will be on display today at New Music Art and Sound Summit today at 4:50pm and again at 9:50pm. The work, which...
View ArticlePresentation: Cindy Chastain’s “New Frontiers: The UX Professional as...
Cindy Chastain’s talk at IXDA 2013 may be a bit dated, but is worth at least a scrub through as she delves into ongoing dialogues about the role of User Experience Designers as facilitators and...
View ArticleDisney Research Labs Quietly Innovating New Touch-less Paradigms with...
Disney Research Labs ‘AIREAL’ Disney Research Labs ‘Touche’ Learn More >>>Disney Research Labs: Touche Project >>>Disney Research Presentation on Touche: “Enhancing Touch Interaction...
View ArticleUX Thought Widget No. 8: On Short-Term Memory Capacity (Dedicated to the UX...
On Short Term Memory Capacity If someone says people can remember about 7 things at once +/- 2, throw a phone book at their head and count how many sips from a keg you can take before you forget. The...
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Xuedi Chen’s: ‘X.Pose’ Interactive Dress Fuses Fashion+Arduino to Charge New...
Late last week Xuedi Chen concept piece ‘X.Pose‘ blinked into the headlines, headed viral and then, fell quiet on the news radar. A story-arc fitting for a work that blends Engineering, Fashion and...
View ArticleFragrance Lab: Service Design + User Experience Converge at the Senses In...
Fragrance Lab is an partnership between forecasting consultancy firm Future Labs, fragrance creator Givaudan, Campaign Design and UK Department Store chain Selfridges blending service design, user...
View Article‘Tigers in Peril’ Interactive Magazine Fuses Mixed Media, Touch and Behavior...
Xiaochen Yang’s Tigers in Peril Interactive Magazine is the result of work at Art Center Media Studies and her time as a Youth Ambassador with the World Wildlife Fund. Developed using Adobe’s Digital...
View ArticleUX Thought Widget #9: Paola Antonelli on ‘Good Design’
Paola Antonelli on Good Design “Good design is a renaissance attitude that combines technology, cognitive science, human need, and beauty to produce something that the world didn’t know it was missing.“
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