Seven electronic device concepts

 

Technological advancements have greatly benefited mankind. Innovative thinking and emerging concepts have given rise to the development of many new products which in turn have made our lives simpler and more comfortable. By Design Buzz

MORPHotel looks like a human vertebral spine

 

There are a lot of hotels that manage to leave an everlasting impression with the way they are constructed. The architectural marvels force people to drop their jaws in surprise and savor the uniqueness they come wrapped in. By Design Buzz

Seven sleek and stylish cellphone concepts

 

Interesting concepts of various cellphones are coming to fore every day and with the creativity of the designers, the sky is the limit. By Design Buzz

10 compact car concepts for future urban transportation

 

Compact car concepts are catering the dreams and fantasies of n-number of people, living all over the world. It speaks volume about what is lavishness and facilitate distinguish standards to the value of outstanding performances. By Design Buzz

Six avant-garde wristwatches to keep pace with times

Here are six indeed avant-garde wearable watches to keep pace with times. By Design Buzz

10 origami inspired architectural designs

 

Origami is an ancient art of Japan. It is a creative method of folding paper to develop beautiful structures. These Japanese origami structures are made from paper folding and feature chiseled cones achieved by making multiple folds and layers of a single paper. By Design Buzz

Self-righting Alarm Clock concept by David Locke

 

Resembling a buoy in its shape, the design comes with an easy-to-use interface with an on/off switch located at the bottom of the clock. By Design Buzz

Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s Anti-Starchitecture Museum In Berkeley

The latest from the New York architects who gave the world the High Line. By Suzanne Labarre

Shapeshifting Sofa Anticipates Your Movements

It's like a beanbag and a futon rolled into one (but way better-looking!). By Alissa Walker

Infographic Of The Day: America's 50 Most Influential Designers

How do you capture the present state of design in one single chart, with only 50 names? You don't. By Cliff Kuang

Teaching Web Design To Anyone Who's Afraid Of Code

A new series of web tutorials called “Don’t Fear the Internet” tries to teach web design to people who don’t want to be web designers. By James Gaddy

Why Does Interaction Design Matter? Let's Look At The Evolving Subway Experience

 

Frog's Robert Fabricant dissects the ways that credit-card swipes work in New York's subway system, and finds an object lesson in user interface design. By Robert Fabricant

4 Ways That Chinese Businesses Are Redefining Customer Service

How can a business succeed in China? A snapshot of thriving Chinese companies reveals what consumers are looking for. By IDEO

3 Trends That Will Define The Future Of Infographics

 

Ross Crooks, cofounder of the infographics firm Column Five, rounds up some of the most interesting trends impacting the discipline. By Ross Crooks

A Visit With Facebook's VP Of Product, And His Redesign Team

In all the coverage of Facebook and its dominance, one group is seldom talked about: The 64-member design staff, which is busy honing interactions that affect hundreds of millions of people. By Reena Jana

Wayfinding In The NYC Subway Sucks.

New York City has the largest subway system in the world and some of the worst subway signage. Either a station doesn’t have enough signs or it has too many, creating unnecessary confusion. By Suzanne Labaree

How To Turn A Vacant Lot Into A Thriving Cultural Destination

 

It goes without saying that our provisional economy has left gaping holes in cities all over the country. Construction sites that once rung with the sound of jackhammers fell eerily silent after the financial crash and never cranked back up again. By Suzanne Labarre

What Makes Steve Jobs So Great?

Steve Jobs isn't an engineer or a designer. But he's one of the greatest users of technology of all time, and that made all the difference. By Cliff Kuang

Artefact's Printer Redesign Isn't Boring, It's Visionary

The SWYP takes the pain and guesswork out of a historically clunky device. By Belinda Lanks

How Infographics Guru Nicholas Felton Inspired Facebook's Timeline

The surprise star at Facebook's f8 conference was Nicholas Felton, whom Facebook's head product developer credited with inspiring the layout of the revamped Facebook. How'd that happen?! By Susanne Labaree

Creative Business Cards that Function as Other Things

When it comes to business, everyone wants to stand out from the crowd, and your business cards should be no different. One way to get noticed is to create one-off, custom business cards that give you that edge by providing something extra — something beyond what business cards are traditionally used for, which is the conveyance of contact information. By Simon Goble

Infographics Roundup: 2011 Tōhoku Earthquake and Tsunami

Almost as soon as the initial shaking from the Tohoku Earthquake, writers, translators, designers and developers around the world began to think about how to use their own talents to make sense of the immense tragedy, the sudden barrage of evolving information and unfamiliar terminology, and lingering risks. By Paul Baron

What we can learn about service design from Google+

The tools that weave themselves deepest into the way humans communicate, do so with our help. The designer releases their invention into the world with a few bold statements, and then it’s up to us to tell them what the significance of the tool is, and how best to use it. By Chris Palmieri

Transforming User Experience

Four elements of transformational design:

• Emotional design
• Profound effect
• Visceral connection
• Resonance
  

By Karen Bachmann

The UX of User Stories, Part 2

This posting covers the looking at the relationship between stories and UI exploration. By Anders Ramsay

The UX of User Stories, Part 1

If you are a UX designer who wants to quickly get up to speed with integrating Agile and UX, there are few better places to start than with User Stories. By Anders Ramsay

Change on a dime: Agile Design

What does it mean to have a good experience? Think of your favorite restaurant, the interior of your car, and the software on your phone; how do people craft these experiences? What details, planning, and design go into the process? By UX Magazine

Designing for tomorrow

When designing a client’s next big website, we like to think ahead of the best-practice curve. Technology changes fast and there is always a risk that what is great today will be so-so six months later, and positively tired in two years. So how can you design something that maintains lasting relevance? By UX Magazine

Think outside the box

Imagine if every time you walked into a McDonald’s the menu was different, the food was different, or the prices were different. If you had to relearn McDonald’s every time you walked in, it would be less attractive as a fast food restaurant. By UX Magazine

5 low-hanging ux tips

People are always looking for ways to improve their websites or applications, and oftentimes we come up with very big and overly complicated ideas on how to do that. Here are some simple ways to greatly improve the user experience of an app. By UX Magazine

7 steps to a kick-ass ux portfolio

The first step is to take a step back and re-imagine the problem space. By UX Magazine

Dreamy interfaces

These days, almost everything we do is digitized into discrete units. Our phone, video, and e-mail communications are digital. Economies, businesses, web searches, and even vehicle traffic are all controlled by sophisticated mathematical models performed by computers. This is the defining characteristic of the information age, and has caused much soul-searching over the past 50 years. By UX Magazine

Rethinking the tv experience

Have you ever felt it’s harder to find something to watch on television now than it was when there were fewer choices? This can partly be attributed to the dilution of content quality, but a greater problem is that operating a television and discovering content is much more complicated than it used to be. By UX Magazine

Efficiency

Efficiency is key to successful organizations as they look to minimize costs in competitive marketplaces. However, organizations that focus on only their inner workings can easily fail to appreciate the impact that day-to-day operations and internal “efficiency drives” have on their customers. By UX Magazine

Why mobile ux is more than 'users on-the-go'

It’s a common misconception that UX for mobile is all about creating something for users on-the-go—users with little time, checking in on their mobile on the train or at the bus stop waiting for a bus. By UX Magazine

The Fold Exists but Does it Matter?

The phrase “the fold” comes from broadsheet newspapers. It refers to the top half of the front page, the only piece of content visible without picking up the newspaper. Whatever content is on the fold helps determine the salability of the paper because it’s either interesting or it’s not. By Design Festival

The impact of 'undesigned' service experiences

Organizations that otherwise pride themselves in delivering exceptional customer experiences, can be myopic to the design of less tangible aspects of their services. By Meld Studios

Showing the story behind the data

The name Nicholas Feltron will be familiar to many people, many more than might have thought they’d be interested in looking at graphs. By Meld Studios

A Service Design Approach Is Required To Deliver Great Customer Experiences

For commercial contexts, that's true. But there is so much more...By Meld Studios

More Detail On Apple's New Foster-Designed Headquarters

Some additional information surrounding the upcoming new Apple campus. By TreeHugger

Cell Phone Design

Timekeeping gets a radical makeover with the LOAD Watch

Ever since cellphones with built-in clocks came into our lives, the first dress-up essential to get the boot was the timepiece. By Designbuzz

Facebook’s Design Strategy: A Status Update

It seems odd, if not entirely counterintuitive, to find any building on Facebook’s main campus devoid of devices connected to the social-networking site. By Design Mind

Bang & Olufsen's Gorgeous BeoSound 5, A $3,555 Home Stereo For Luddites

Bang & Olufsen’s new BeoSound 5 Encore tries to sidestep iTunes navigation system while offering high-end digital audio. By James Gaddy

Game Developer Kevin Slavin On How Algorithms Mold Our Cities

Slavin, a noted game developer, notes that entire city neighborhoods are being remade to resemble computer chips. And we've barely even noticed. By James Gaddy

5 Ways That Standardization Can Lead To Innovation

We'd like to think that innovation comes from freewheeling chaos. Think again: It's extreme order that begets breakthroughs in business. By Henry King

"Float" App Adds Easy-Reading Interfaces To Your Social Media Feeds

It's like Readability meets Twitter, but with a couple extra touches that make the reading experience smoother than ever. By John Pavlus

Imogen Heap's Digital Gloves Let Her Sculpt Music Out of Gestures

She can mix and manipulate sounds into music live on stage with a gestural interface. By John Pavlus

The Creator Of TED Aims To Reinvent Conferences Once Again

Wurman’s plan is to stage a series of improvisational one-to-one conversations, held in front of a small invitation-only audience and then disseminated via a high-quality app. By Warren Berger

How Twitter And Facebook Helped Bing Thom Design A Public Library

Where most architects would rely on town-hall meetings and focus groups to learn what the community wanted, Bing Thom had to rely on Facebook and Twitter to meet an exacting deadline. By Linda Tischler

Arduino-Controlled Robot “Paints” Like Georges Seurat

French designer Paul Ferragut has built a robot that throws a bunch of dots on canvas and calls it art. (That’s also known as the entire career of Georges Seurat.) By Suzanne Labarre

A multifunctional gadget formed by joining various elements

As a child, you must have played a game in which bits and pieces are to be placed together. This results in interesting shapes of different sizes and is a fun-filled activity. By Designbuzz

Rail Whale concept for new-age trams

You’ve seen trams and London’s double-decker buses. But clearly, nobody has ever thought of combining the two. Until now, it has the length of the average tram and has two levels. It’s just a concept for now, but a great idea which could be realized and made practical. By Designbuzz

S1 Digital Pilot's Headset

Aviation industry is constantly focused on developing headsets for the worthy pilots who have to undergo the discomfort of hearing unwanted noise in the aircraft. By Design Buzz

Sustainable 'Farm Tower' in London offers a solution to food crisis

The “London Farm Tower” is an amazing concept by Brandon Martella and is situated on the southern bank of the river Thames, facing Potter’s Field. By Design Buzz

Hostel kiosk for backpackers

One of the best ways to know a country is to backpack through its little known towns and off-map destinations. For backpackers, hostels and similar lodges are the staple accommodation that allows travelers to meet many people and share common experiences. By Design Buzz

The Ultimate Bike Handle

Okay first of all, WOW. By Yanko Design

Learning Tool for Deaf Children

The VV-Talker is a device designed for deaf children to help them overcome their problem in speaking effectively. By Yanko Design

BMW Electric Trike-Car

The BMW i1 is an electric, single-seater concept by designer Amadou Ba Ndiaye that fuses motorcycle thrill with the safety of a car into one eye-catching concept. By Yanko Design

Strategic Innovation And The Quest For Breakthrough Ideas

Innovation is now a very hot topic at the C-Suites. By Innovation Playground

The Ideum MT55 Platform is the world's thinnest multi-touch table

In this era of multitouch phones, monitors and other such devices, one cannot really predict what the next invention would be. Multi-touch tables are something that catches our focus. By Design Buzz

Softshell Velomobile

Gone are the days of the usual 4-seater vehicles. Almost every car manufacturer looks towards making a model which would be another run off the mil. By Design Buzz

Tondo Multitouch Table looks to de-stress clinical audits for medical staff

Created as a part of the Interaction Design Thesis Project for the Visual and Multimedia Communication graduate program of the University of Venice, the Tondo Multitouch Table looks to simplify the process of clinical audits and help medical professionals to find the source of a critical error that may have put a patient at risk with ease. By Design Buzz

Prototype dual-screened 2-in-1 Android smartpad from Imerj preview

From the front it looks like yet another plain smartphone -- dark, nondescript, and maybe a little like an iPhone 4 that's had its right-most extent sliced off. Pick it up, though, and you realize this little thing isn't so nondescript. From Engadget

Why Can't All TV Remotes Be This Good?

The remote control has become a maddening jumble of buttons. U.K.-based NDS distills the device down to its essential functions. By Fastcodesign

The design dilemma: Dismay vs. Delight

Designers evoke great delight in their work. Engineers provide utilitarian value. By Core77

When mobile payments make sense

Mobile payment systems have yet to take off. Or oven reach of point in which paying with your mobile have any kind of disruptive effect. There are two reasons for this. By Baekdal

Future Touch Tech

This concept computer-of-the-future by designer Jakub Záhoř allows the user to operate the device anywhere they can find a glass surface. By Yanko Design

Anytime, Anywhere Deliverable Hospital

Designer Kukil Han imagines a go-anywhere solution for providing aid to victims of natural disasters such as floods, earthquakes, tsunamis and storms. By Yanko Design

The Porsche 929

The Porsche Panamara. By Yanko Design

I Just Died and Went to Samsung Galaxy Heaven

Here is a concept phone that you can't help but fall in love with. Name the features and it’s all in there. Flexible screen, projector, camera…ah the works! One of those designs where you let the pictures do the talking…so go ahead and hit the jump! By Yanko Design

Six Tips for Designing Without Pixels

Pixel perfection must become a thing of the past – so let’s talk about how you actually design for a world without pixels. By Zurb

'A Day Made of Glass' and What That Means for Design

Obviously as this video was sponsored by Corning they have a vested interest in getting people excited about glass, but just take a look at the video and pick out two displays that have the same size and aspect ratio. Or opacity. Or surface color.

Whether technology evolves this way or not, the way we interact with data and media is going to change drastically, and we're no longer going to have the kind of standard canvas control we have now. By Zurb

Three Principles of Being Frank

Frank Gehry, the Pultzer Prize winning mastermind architect behind buildings such as Guggenheim Museum in Spain, MIT State Center in Boston, Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and many others, has been named the most important architect of our age. By Zurb

How Design Teamwork Crushes Bureaucracy

Design sometimes feels like therapy. By Zurb

Fire The M.B.A.s and Let Engineers Run the Show

Vice Chairman of General Motor's, Bob Lutz argues for the desperate need of doers instead of bean counters. Product driven managers, leaders, executives are the people that build successful and sustainable companies. Bean counters usually kill them. By Zurb

Spend a Little Less Time Pitching and More Time Listening

If a product team understands the customers' motivations, then they’re able to use that knowledge to work toward balancing the business goals and user needs. By Zurb

Steve Jobs: Innovation is saying 'no' to 1,000 things

Nike CEO, Mark Parker says that shortly after becoming CEO and working on Nike+ with Apple he talked to Steve Jobs on the phone. “Do you have any advice?” Parker asked Jobs. Here is what Jobs had to say. By Zurb

Communicaid allows the hearing impaired to 'see' sounds around them

The Communicaid design concept from South Korean designer Jaepyung Lee stems from the disadvantages that the hearing impaired people encounter in the course of their daily routines. By Design Buzz

Kokoro wearable cellphone keeps working parents in touch with kids

Cellphones have become an essential part of our lives. They have become as important as oxygen and have shrunk the world even further. But, the question remains how important are they for children? By Design Buzz

Recumbent Moon Buggy Trike can tackle commute on the moon

Winner of the Best Design Award at the 2011 edition of NASA’s annual Great Moon buggy Race, the RISD Moon Buggy 2011 is one of the most sophisticated recumbent trikes that have surfaced in a few years now. By Design Buzz

Ex-Apple Designer Creates Teaching UI That "Kills Math" Using Data Viz

Designer Bret Victor hopes so: his prototype UI turns gnarly differential equations into something normal humans can understand. By John Pavlus

VOID, An iPad Mag That Aims To Teach The Art Of Coding

Natalie Hanke's mag-app doesn't exist in the iTunes Store yet, but it should. By John Pavlus

Vital Contents of a Business Card

Every business would opt to have a business card. Of course, graphic designers should have one, too. This is necessary for whatever business transactions but you also have to make sure that your card contains a complete advertisement about you and your company. By Ronald Bien