Tuesday, July 06, 2010
A Gym on Steroids, Designed by MVRDV and ADEPT
Can a Ball Help Kids Learn Braille?
Be-B could teach Braille to children, blind or not, through touch and sound. By Suzanne Labarre
IDEA Spotlight: Speech Therapy Made Easy
How Honeywell Is Redesigning the Skies
Bob Smith, Honeywell's CTO, talks with FastCompany.com about the technology that will soon control the skies overhead. By Cliff Kuang
Friday, July 02, 2010
Prosthesis, a step closer towards new cyborg society
IceCloud fridge extracts humidity from thin air for natural cooling
Pop-Up Restaurants Popping Up All Over
Get it right, people, it's "Coroflot" for chrissakes
Microsoft may bring the Courier project back online. By Core77
Designer Mark Sanders uploads his original Strida bike student thesis
Book Review: Box, Bottle, Bag, by Andrew Gibbs
Thursday, July 01, 2010
From the Master of Speed Comes a Lean, Green City Car
Saturday, June 26, 2010
Mi-Sport presents the world's first fully waterproof, wireless MP3 headphones
We have seen a number of wearable music players in the past, but the new MP3 player headphones from Mi-Sport is a headset with difference that integrates a waterproof MP3 player with text to voice software. By The Design Blog
NaviQ digital guide
We may have entered the digital era and have access of modern navigation tools, but visiting the places with different languages and cultures untroubled is still a major issue for travelers. By The Design Blog
Multi-touch floor display
Tabletop displays or computers may allow a wide range of possibilities, but they too have their limitations, as they cannot extend more than an arm’s length due to the size limitations. By Naresh Chauhan
Eos Triton car uses Gyroscope technology to balance it on one wheel
Inspired by the fluidity of the Nature, the cocoon and the shell, Malaysian designer Priyanka Martin has come up with a transportation concept that moves you around swiftly even in a city rush hour. By Naresh Chauhan
The $0.001 DIY iPhone 4 Antenna Fix
There's a huge media fuss about a potential failing of the iPhone 4's clever antenna design, with folks concerned it spells radio-drop-out call doom for the phone. By Kit Eaton
The Hub Bay Area: Where Change Agents Share Space and Ideas
Gathered around a large, sun-drenched table in the SoMa neighborhood of San Francisco on a Friday afternoon are financial advisers, activists, marketers, designers, coders, lawyers, and a half-dozen more local entrepreneurs. By Alissa Waker
Bobin Kil's car
We've seen concepts for electric cars where each wheel has its own motor, and we've all seen a Segway and motorized unicycles; designer Bobin Kil's Lightweight concept combines all of these things into one. By Hipstomp
UX 2010 Week
Calling UX professionals (or aspiring professionals) of all levels! Join the UX Week, the premier user experience conference, for fun times, inspiring sessions on the main stage and roll-up-your-sleeves learning during two full days of workshops. It's going to rock.
Boatanic: A floating farm proposal for inner-city waterways
As Damien O'Sullivan, a designer in Rotterdam, walked the waterways in Amsterdam, he noticed that the typical tourist boats would make fantastic greenhouses—they are ideally suited to gathering heat and light with their large glass windows. By Core Jr.
A new online community for sustainable design
Today marks the official launch of the Living Principles for Design, a new online portal "intended to give the creative community a place to share and showcase best practices, tools, stories and ideas for enabling sustainable action, popularizing the efforts of those who use design thinking to affect positive cultural change." By Core Jr
Design Thinking: A useful myth
A powerful myth has arisen upon the land, a myth that permeates business, academia, and government. It is pervasive and persuasive. But although it is relatively harmless, it is false. The myth? By Don Norman
Core77 speaks with Jonathan Ive on the design of the iPhone 4: Material Matters
"A big part of the experience of a physical object has to do with the materials," says Jonathan Ive, Apple's Senior Vice President of Design, during a brief chat with Core77.
Friday, June 25, 2010
Changing Behavior by Design: Forbes Interview with Jon Kolko
A well-crafted product can make the world a better place. By Sam Martin
Teach Design: Think Dumb
How designers are introducing the idea of “simple” to a group of high school students. By Clay Odom
Winners announced for 2010 MEX Mobile User Experience Awards
Making It Easy To Communicate With Grandma
Can You Design a Zero-Electricity Clothes Dryer
Nike lets you Tweet to Johannesburg
Thursday, June 24, 2010
The Genius Behind Minority Report's Interfaces Resurfaces, With Mind-blowing New Tec
Ingenious Flipper Bridge Melds Left-Side Drivers With Right-Side Drivers
World's Best Skyscraper Awards Include Stout, Rusty School Building in England
The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat announced the best skyscrapers of the year. By Suzanne Labarre
Eye Phone
The tool is intended to make eye exams affordable in the developing world, and the creators are founding a startup to distribute it. By Cliff Kuang
The Beauty of Fiber Optic Concrete, Yes, Fiber Optic Concrete
New Tron Light Cycle Toys Drive Up Walls, Upside Down [Video]
Thursday, June 17, 2010
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
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