Friday, May 14, 2010
An essential guide to design for disassembly
Design for disassembly is a design strategy that considers the future need to disassemble a product for repair, refurbish or recycle. By Alex Diener
Almost Genius: An Umbrella With Built-in Cup Holder
My hand! It buuuuurns! It buuuuuuuuurnnnnnns!!! By Cliff Kuang
Living in a material world
One of the ways to curb our spending is to cut back on our credit card usage, but that’s next to impossible for some. By Yanko Design
The Future is Already Here: Three Trends in IA
Erin Malone talks about experience design, social design and service design.
Microsoft Kin is User Centered Innovation at its Best
Microsoft Kin is a fine example of a product that went through a user centered innovation process. By Design Sojourn
Using antimicrobial copper alloys in hospitals
Copper Touch is a system of antimicrobial touch-point hardware and sani-stations (alcohol gel dispensers) designed to be deployed in hospitals to reduce infection. By Alice Ro
Forfreedom caravan designed for the most comfortable vacation
Conceived by British designer Robert Williams, the “Forfreedom” is an expanding living unit designed with sustainability in mind. By Naresh Chauhan
Litl Unveils Internet Interface Aimed at Surfers of Both Web and Couch
The new device will attempt to solve the problem of creating a rich, easy Web-browsing experience, while sitting on the couch and watching TV. By Cliff Kuang
Cooper-Hewitt Asks: Can Designers Save the World?
The world's drowning in dark news of political unrest, climate change, environmental disaster, and poverty. But we can still take heart that right now, designers have fixed themselves on the day's problems with a vigor that the world has never seen before. Can design save the world? By Cliff Kuang
School's Almost Out, but These Modular, Eco-Friendly Classrooms Are In
As a school's population explodes while its budget dwindles, most students are more likely to learn their long division in a dismal, aging trailer. By Alissa Walker
Keeping a Well-Rounded Focus on the End User
Ron Pierce, posed that design researchers are the only group ideally suited to be advocates for the end users, arguing that all other groups have conflicting objectives and serve too many masters. By Stuart Karten
Monday, May 03, 2010
Capca Concept - future city car
What will city infrastructure and city transport, parking and fueling be like in the near future? Let's take a look at your city from the height of a skyscraper, what will you see? By Anatoly Shikhov
What's the time?
From micro-technology engineer Maximilian Busser comes this wicked watch with a heckuva long name: The MB&F Horological Machine Number 3 Frog. By Hipstomp
Alice on the iPad: Will the design of books change?
The video is a little frenetic but it does an amazing job of showing how we’re only scratching the surface in terms of what’s possible for next generation storytelling on devices like the iPad. The design of books may be on a new path. Read the article here.
Navimation: Exploring Time, Space & Motion in the Design of Screen-based Interfaces
Screen-based user interfaces now include dynamic and moving elements that transform the screen space and relations of mediated content. These changes place new demands on design as well as on our reading and use of such multimodal texts. By Jon Olav H. Eikenes and Andrew Morrison
Achieving Design Focus: An Approach to Design Workshops
Stakeholders with business, design, and technology viewpoints can pull products in different design directions—sometimes without knowing how the design work fits into an overall strategy. This can leave stakeholders feeling lost and unhappy. By Daniel Szuc and Josephine Wong
Solar-powered Oasis
Transforming a simple bench into a meeting point, Brazilian studio Baita Design has popped up shelter bench that collects solar energy to humanize the urban environment and make the cities a better place to live. By Naresh Chauhan
Huge Artificial Waterfall Structure Designed for Rio
With its burgeoning economy and bold commitments to reducing carbon emissions and deforestation, Brazil is poised to be an important player in the years and decades to come. By Stephen Messenger
The scent of design
Through collaborations with perfumers, five designers find a way to evolve their practice. By Amelia Black
Moving Designs for San Francisco Transit Terminal Put the Light Back in Rail
On top, there will be a 1000-foot long fountain shaped like a bus. Yes, a bus. Since this is a bus station, get it! By Sara Rich
Layar Takes Shopping Into the Augmented Reality Dimension With In-App Purchasing
Layar, the augmented reality browser, is stepping up its efforts to bring sci-fi-like AR to the world: It's just introduced in-app shopping. Yes, that's the world's first augmented reality store, and it implies all sorts of astonishing potential for all sorts of people--from world travelers to Disney vacationers. By Kit Eaton
Design Is Critical to Nike CEO Mark Parker's Strategy; How About Yours?
What's the difference between a CEO with a management background and one with a design DNA? Nike's president and CEO Mark Parker is the answer.
Decoding the Pavilion Architecture of Shanghai World Expo 2010
On Friday, the Shanghai World Expo 2010 opening as "a grand gathering of the world cultures," a kind of international "We are the world" singalong. As many as 100 million visitors are expected. By Suzanne LaBarre
Expanding Video Screen
Innovative Designs, Hoberman Associates (screen design); Barco, Innovative Designs (screen production) Location: A U2 concert in a city near you. By Anne Gulney
Networking for architects, minus the idle chatter
For architects looking to network online in a serious way, the options have been limited. LinkedIn consigns designers to text-based profiles, making it difficult to convey a firm’s essence. By John Gendall
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