February 2012
35 posts
Watch(via jkleske & 9 Businesses) – Watch how 9 (fantastic) small businesses are redesigning the Detroit socio-economic landscape, laying a blueprint for a better collective future.
Why User Experience Is Critical To Customer... →
WatchUSMA is a clock without a visual interface, as simple as it gets (via ninedaysoff)
WatchFree download - ‘In Studio: Recipes for Systemic change’, Helsinki Design Lab’s first book (via 1982) “This book explores the HDL Studio Model, a unique way of bringing together the right people, a carefully framed problem, a supportive place, and an open-ended process to craft an integrated vision and sketch the pathway towards strategic improvement. It’s...
Watch‘Future Scenario - Tapster’ A quite interesting haptic notifications concept that sends the user subtle unobtrusive impulses. “Tapster is a simple analog interface (membrane) that makes sure you don’t forget what’s important to you. Notifications have long been a nuisance to meetings and personal interactions by distracting vibrating or noisy sounds. Tapster allows...
WatchLines is based on a writing technique from medieval times developed by monks as a solution to expensive paper and tedious writing. (via uxuiuxui) The monks were writing in the centre of the page allowing enough space for others to annotate the pages on the sides, method allowing you to read the story through other people’s writing. The problem arises when 5-6th person tried to comment there would...
A brief rant on the future of interaction design →
(via @congbo & @mikearauz) Thank you, now I have words and neat arguments to explain my colleagues and friends why I get so grumpy when shown these “future vision” videos in a hilarious manner. ”Pictures Under Glass is an interaction paradigm of permanent numbness. It’s a Novocaine drip to the wrist. It denies our hands what they do best. And yet, it’s the star...
WatchThe next 80%. (presentation by @congbo) From destination, response and information to presence, relationships and activity.
WatchRecompose is a new system for manipulation of an actuated surface (via ThisIsThatBlog). By collectively utilizing the body as a tool for direct manipulation alongside gestural input for functional manipulation, we show how a user is afforded unprecedented control over an actuated surface. We describe a number of interaction techniques exploring the shared space of direct and gestural input,...
WatchYves Béhar : Why designers should be in love with the process (via 99% & ecotone)
WatchCryoscope: a haptic weather forecaster by Robb Godshaw (via 1982)
WatchOpen Helsinki: Embedding Design in Life (via jkleske & @colmenares)
WatchInteractive projection mapping x B-Reel (via @matiasjajaja & 1982)
WatchOlly is a robot that turns you social interactions on the web into smells. It exhales fried bacon for a retweet or butter popcorn when sent a new video so that the web becomes a true multisensory experience - Olly Factory
