Everyone from giant defense contractors to retailers like Walmart and Nordstrom are putting their brightest minds in dedicated labs to attempt to jump ahead of the competition. Here's where they do it. By Yahoo
Monday, February 25, 2013
17 of the Most Mysterious Corporate Labs
Everyone from giant defense contractors to retailers like Walmart and Nordstrom are putting their brightest minds in dedicated labs to attempt to jump ahead of the competition. Here's where they do it. By Yahoo
Puma's biomimetic mobium runner
Sneaker innovation (or the Footwear Novelty Gimmick Contest, depending on your point of view) continues. Hot on the heels of Reebok's crazy ATV-style shoe and Adidas' Boost foam comes Puma's Mobium Runner, a sneaker that "expands and contracts with your foot." By Core77
Light Saber Can For The Sight Impaired!
DeskSpace Phone
The DeckSpace Phone is more of a prototyping experiment focused on designing a phone with a new user experience. By Yanko Design
Friday, February 22, 2013
Thursday, February 21, 2013
How your smartphone will get smarter
Today's smartphones are much more than phones -- they are powerful, networked multimedia computers, and over the next 10 years they'll get far more advanced. As a result, mobility is transforming many day-to-day processes -- including how we sell, communicate, collaborate, train, and educate. By CNN
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Using Mind Maps for UX Design: Part 2 – Research Maps
How to use mind maps to create “sketch maps” that organize ideas in a tree-based structure where sketches are used as the way to illustrate those concepts. Mind maps have many other applications for UX designers. This article will focus on how to use mind maps for user research. By Inspire UX
See Part 1 here
See Part 1 here
How Design of Mobile Apps Can Promote Healthier Behavior
To help cut health-care costs and enable consumers to live longer, healthier lives, companies can entice people to health technologies if they woo them into sharing and celebrating, a design consultant says. By The WSJ
Can This Design Student Build An Open-Source Alternative To GPS?
Maps are power. Those who draw them control the public’s access to the world at a fundamental level--for example, in the 1500s, maps of the New World were worth their weight in gold. These days, we rely on the Global Positioning System, developed by the Department of Defense during the Cold War. Though it’s publicly accesible, GPS is still a closed system, meaning the government can shut it down or edit it as they see fit. By Fast Company
5 Design Challenges That Could Derail Apple’s iWatch
Frog’s Chief Creative Officer Mark Rolston and Disney Research visionary Ivan Poupyrev share their thoughts on Apple’s blitz for your wrist--namely, that a company most recently focused on "thinner, faster, and lighter" will need to remember a more important point: practicality. By Fast Company
Why You Shouldn’t Call Yourself A Social Good Designer
Frog’s Robert Fabricant discusses the work his firm is doing to design new solutions to improve health outcomes in the developing world, but why he never calls it "giving back." By Fast Company
Monday, February 18, 2013
A deeply thought-out plan for EV charging stations
To see more electric vehicles on our roads, we'll need to build more stations for charging them. WXY's new report shows us how to get started. By Fast Company
Fleksy
Ioannis Verdelis and Kostas Eleftheriou, the two Greek computer scientists behind Fleksy, didn’t just set out to make a better touch-screen keyboard. By Fast Company
4 Lessons from the web’s most ruthlessly addictive site
With its four-foot-long home pages and hundreds of sidebar images, the Mail online breaks every rule of web design. By Fast Company
Bosch automated driving and assisted transportation systems
As self-driving cars continue to progress in new technological developments, new safety measures are being introduced to reduce accidents and pedestrian casualties. By Designboom
Thursday, February 14, 2013
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Looking beyond user-centered design
UX design is the discipline: what we do. Precise definition is elusive, but most attempts focus on experience as an explicit design objective. By A List Apart
Infographic: the intricate anatomy of ux design
This mega graphic attempts to tackle the relationship between ux and all other aspects of design. By Fast Company
User experience in startups
Making a fresh start with a new organization is always an exciting time, isn’t it? Especially when that organization is a startup. By UX Matters
Storyboarding in the Software Design Process
Using storyboards in software design can be difficult because of some common challenges and drawbacks to the tools we have. The good news is that there’s a new, free tool that tries to address many of these issues. By UX Magazine
Smittybilt G.E.A.R.
For those who live in areas where burglary isn't a problem, a car can be a handy place to store things. By Core77
Can BlackBerry rebrand through its products?
When BlackBerry reminded everyone that it still existed this week with the launch of two new smartphones, commentators were falling over each other to announce that the company had ‘bet the house’ on the new products, which marked ‘one last throw of the dice’. By Design Week
Apple’s Troubling Quest to Trademark Store Design
Giving heat to the ongoing debate about the intellectual property rights in the architecture and design world, Apple has recently obtained a new registered trademark certificate from the U.S Patent & Trademark authority in order to cover its architecture, which can be called as the biggest aesthetic asset of Apple. By Design Buzz
Monday, February 11, 2013
Expresso maker, designed for your microwave
Brewing world-class coffee is fairly inexpensive. All you need is a grinder and a kettle and some sort of combination of a funnel and filter. Good espresso ups the ante by about tenfold. By Fast Company
The inside story of Ubuntu's gesture-centric smartphone
No home button. No lock screen. The open-source smartphone is all about gestural interfaces--but does it go too far? By Fast Company
Friday, February 01, 2013
Eco-Airliner
The Ecologic Aircraft by designer Daphnis Fournier aims to be the first fully electric passenger plane, utilizing an inflatable structure above the main cabin that contains flexible photovoltaic panels to collect solar energy while flying above the clouds. By Yanko Design
Vacuum for the blind
The Vivacuum is a compact cleaner for people who are visually impaired. The appliance gets its ‘Vi’ prefix by compounding the words visualize and vacuum. By Yanko Design
Erascan can scan
Erascan is a whiteboard eraser that scans the written matter on the board while erasing and saves it onto an inbuilt memory chip. By Yanko Design
Why Top Execs are Starting to Care About UX Design
Jesse James Garrett, who is a pioneer in user experience, sits down with Revolution to talk about why user experience deserves the attention of the c-suite.
Should We Focus on User Experience?
Our current notion of UX design mistakenly focuses on experience. We should go one step further and focus on the memory of an experience instead. By Mashable
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