Tag Archives: Interaction Design
Objectified
Objectified: A Documentary Film by Gary Hustwit Objectified is a feature-length documentary about our complex relationship with manufactured objects and, by extension, the people who design them. It’s a look at the creativity at work behind everything from toothbrushes to … Continue reading
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Everything will be about interaction design
All that is solid melts into air!! Transforming Grounds: The Year of Interaction! So, we are at the beginning of a new year. I just read a list of dominating trends in information technology development. There was nothing really new … Continue reading
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The 10 things user experience design is NOT…
I’ve just begun following Whitney Hess – prompted by an interesting piece she did in Mashable. See it here. Pleasure and Pain » Improving the human experience one day at a time The 10 things user experience design is NOT… … Continue reading
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The opportunities in an Economic Downturn for Designers
I keep hearing of people being laid off – Designers are losing their jobs in the current downturn. So what do they do. I have a few ideas for things you can do as you wait for the economy to … Continue reading
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Diabetes and Interaction Design
I saw charmr (you can say Charmr on youtube to watch the video) by Adaptive Path and was quite intrigued. I have students doing similar projects. This is ‘gadgets that help’. I am in diabetes for a different reason – … Continue reading
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How do you program a VCR?
Its 1991. I am sitting on the grass at the Katsuta factory of Hitachi. It a factory that makes TVs. And I am sitting with factory workers – one of them says he goes home late so that his son … Continue reading
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The IxDA is pleased to announce its second annual conference-Interaction’09|vancouver.
Would love to go to this event. IxDA Interaction 09 | Vancouver > Main Interaction’09|vancouver will be held from February 5-8, 2009 in stunning Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, in conjunction with Simon Fraser University’s School of Interactive Arts and Technology. … Continue reading
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the most exciting and promising research opportunities for the future
Quasi-nerds only: interesting little compare and contrast – James Fallows Two of America’s tech powers — IBM and Microsoft — have given glimpses of what they consider the most exciting and promising research opportunities for the future. Their lists are … Continue reading
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Reviving Experimental Design, by Scott Klinker
Beyond Fashion: Reviving Experimental Design, by Scott Klinker – Core77 Today, if any realm can claim the conceptual high ground of design research, it is interaction design–the perfect intersection of objects, systems, and social behaviors. Interaction design has become a … Continue reading
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An Evolving Map of Design Practice and Design Research
Love this way of drawing maps and explaining this. Have done it for years – and the stopped. In this paper – which I read online – I see Liz trying to get a comprehensive take on design research going. … Continue reading
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Interaction Design Curriculum
Cooper Journal: So You Want To Be An Interaction Designer The first thing to keep in mind is that interaction design is a new discipline that is still being defined in the academic setting. There are only a few institutions … Continue reading
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The Ford Fusion SmartGauge: Good Stuff, Missed Opportunities
Cooper Journal: The Ford Fusion SmartGauge: Good Stuff, Missed Opportunities There’s been a certain amount of buzz in automotive circles about the new SmartGauge dash display in the Ford Fusion hybrid. What’s so cool? According to Ford, the car encourages … Continue reading
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Digital Industrial Design
Can we visualize a new kind of Industrial Design education – called for a bit “Digital Industrial Design Education”? Where the process of design is: 1. Primarily digital – so its not then about hand drawing, or workshop practice. 2. … Continue reading
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Design today
Walking to work today I thought of design today as having three key energies – the technological, the artistic and the social – and that every design project or orientation (curriculum too) as a combination of how each of these … Continue reading
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A unified approach to visual and interaction design
Cooper Journal: A unified approach to visual and interaction design At the end of the day, as designers, we want to look for a set of attributes that tells a comprehensive story that resonates with both stakeholders and users, and … Continue reading
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Map of interaction design education in Europe
I looked at this and I thought it would be a good idea to do this for a paper on australian design education, then also for a design school vision for India. designswarm thoughts » Blog Archive » Map of … Continue reading
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Jeremy Yuille Explores IxD Education at Adaptive Path
I am very curious about Adaptive path – especially their work -’charmr’ – on diabetes. I needed to see this about Jeremy – to jog me to speak to him. Jeremy Yuille Explores IxD Education at Adaptive Path | jamin.org … Continue reading
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Evenson Lecture: Service Innovation, Strategy, and Design
Service Innovation, Strategy, and Design - Garysguide.org – The #1 Tech & Media Events Calendar Shelley Evenson will discuss how to design services, how businesses can benefit from the increased value of well-designed services, and how we can continue to define this … Continue reading
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Facebook and all the online presences (and absences)
I just finished reading My Best Day: Presentation of Self and Social Manipulation in Facebook and IM, (Naomi S. Baron, American University Washington, DC, Paper presented at Internet Research 8.0 Association of Internet Researchers, Vancouver, British Columbia, October 1720, 2007) … Continue reading
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I am on to Twitter now
I embraced twitter today. This is new – and I do it in the spirit of inquiry. I HAD TO get on to twitter because Fallows and Ambinder of Atlantic Monthly were on to it. That took the geekiness out … Continue reading
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Minilogue/Hitchhikers Choice – Video
White Board Stop Motion Animation: I was looking at this as a possible method – not at this level of complexity or sophistication – as a possible alternative to paper prototyping. more about “Minilogue/Hitchhikers Choice – Video“, posted with vodpod
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