In an interview, Kindle unit head Ian Freed talks about the trade-offs Amazon considered in deciding what would go in the new Kindle, which is now shipping.
Gone are the days when the user experience and the user interface were an afterthought in the website design process, to be added on when programming was nearing completion.
Picture the scene. You've just landed a new client, who hurries a brief to you for a marketing brochure. There are a few holes in the brief, but instead of asking for constant clarification, you get to work. Later you’re told the design "isn't quite right". Before you know it, the client is refusing to pay.
Strategic Designers have a very unique approach to things, especially in regard to the design process. The strategic designers’ pathway around the design process oscillates from a “bird’s eye” view of things to a “telescopic” focused one and then back up to a “bird’s eye” view again.
By 2012 there will be 4.3 billion mobile subscribers (about 61% of the world population) and 803 million of them will be using their phones as social networking devices.
Physical and screen-based interfaces have collapsed into each other and both industrial and interaction designers have a whole new set of issues to grapple with.
VisualComplexity intends to be a unified resource space for anyone interested in the visualization of complex networks. The project's main goal is to leverage a critical understanding of different visualization methods, across a series of disciplines, as diverse as Biology, Social Networks or the World Wide Web.
BusinessWeek has an article on the veiled threat that Apple has made to competitors regarding multi-touch technology. But the interesting part was a link to a whitepaper written by Bill Buxton. It’s a great historical overview/crash course of touch and multi-touch research that preceeded Apple’s work back almost 30 years.
Nowadays offices have ceased being boring and instead boast of a vibrant environment that permeates down to the seating arrangements. So, exit boring old chairs and enter newer concepts like Formway’s iconic FREE range office seating system.
Only 21% responding to a recent survey claim they would buy an Apple electric car. 48% would buy one from BMW. Good. Apple shouldn't design an electric car. They should design the interior of one. Read the rest of the article here.
Ikea's new range is packed with its trademark sense of fun and frugality. But with other homeware stores suffering, is the Swedish giant in danger of extinction?
The book titled 'Geometry of Design', illustrates how mathematics can enhance design and take it to a whole new level. A whole section of the book showed the geometric foundation behind the design of the Volkswagen Beetle.
All of these logos combine two or more individual concepts to create one seamless design. Some are a little more obvious than others, but all equally impressive.
In 1972, when I was a sophomore in high school in suburban Cleveland, I was asked to do a poster for our drama club’s production of “Arsenic and Old Lace.” I found a nice big piece of cardboard, did the most...
In 1991 the Apple we know so well today was totally different. Steve Jobs had not yet returned to the company. Apple’s new focus was to diversify its core technologies beyond the scope of computers and CEO John Sculley was not shy about sharing the company’s secrets unlike the iron curtain Apple hangs today. Take a step back and check out some of these concepts from yesteryear.