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 tech gadgets. It’s about the designers who re-examine, re-evaluate and re-invent our manufactured environment on a [...]

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 on the list. I guess we all understand and can see that the “cloud” takes care of [...]

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…
1. …user interface design 2. …a step in the process [...]

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 turn around:
1. Go back to uni and do a Masters degree. So you get to [...]

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 – I want to change health outcomes for the, say, 40 million Indians and further 40 million [...]

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 can record a TV program. Because he dosnt know how to program the VCR. We [...]

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. Join several hundred Interaction Designers from around the world as we address the design of interactive systems [...]

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 fascinating in their own right but also in a comparative sense, for what they show about [...]

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 separate branch of design discourse, a friendly sibling of industrial design with it’s own unique vocabulary [...]

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. Its great – but I doesn’t work for me totally for I may be grounded [...]

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 in the world offering degree programs specifically in “interaction design,” and while their curricula share similarities, [...]

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 fuel-efficient driving habits by giving users constant feedback. What’s not to love about encouraging cleaner driving [...]

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. Independent of ‘manufacturing’ priorities – and so is significantly ‘form’ and ’shape’ orientated.
3. Similar to graphic design in [...]

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 is enerised. So in a sense the 1850s to the 1950s is a period when [...]

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 has a healthy amount of tension which will be productive for exploring and establishing boundaries. For [...]

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 interaction design education in Europe
So I thought I’d map out the interesting academic environments where one [...]

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
Adaptive Path recently hosted a brown bag lunch with Jeremy Yuille regarding interaction design education. I skirted [...]

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 emerging design field. Shelley will also engage the group in how technologies such as sensors and [...]

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) and enjoyed it thoroughly. Here is a snippet from that paper.
Back in the late 1950s [...]

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 of it – and made it an instrument to post. Then I had to do [...]

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.

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