Hello Lamp Post! is a new public art project that will let you communicate with post boxes and lamp posts without anyone questioning your mental health. By Wired
Sunday, January 27, 2013
Interactive Mailbox Project Shares Text-Message Secrets
Hello Lamp Post! is a new public art project that will let you communicate with post boxes and lamp posts without anyone questioning your mental health. By Wired
Micro Apartments
New York's first prefab apartment tower will rise in 2015. Its 55 units will be very, very small. By Fast Company
Solving Problems The Square Way
Not long ago, Square CEO Jack Dorsey challenged his team to create a solution for accepting payments at Starbucks, which the mobile-payments company had partnered with in August. When an engineer worked out a solution (using QR codes within the Square Wallet app that could tap into Starbucks' preexisting system), Dorsey was so giddy that he grabbed a high-end bottle of scotch off his desk and gave it to the engineer as a reward. The only catch? By Fast Company
Thursday, January 17, 2013
The New Design Thinking for Educators Toolkit
This toolkit supports teachers in using design thinking tools to become agents of change in their classrooms, schools, and communities by designing more effective curriculum, spaces, tools, and systems. By Tim Brown
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Life Straw
Friday, January 11, 2013
Explore the Urban Jungle in Style
The Urban Pod has all the bells and whistles you’d expect from such a futuristic-looking design- radar for collision warning/parking, tire pressure sensors,...By Yanko Design
The foolproof lock
My bike got stolen! Been there, done that; so the focus has to be on how do we stop these bicycle thieves from getting creative at picking locks? Simple, let’s make it a foolproof locking system. By Yanko Design
AD App Guide: Morpholio Trace
ArchDaily’s Architecture App Guide will introduce you to web and mobile apps that can help you as an architect: productivity, inspiration, drafting, and more. By Arch Daily
What women want from smartphone design
Pink phones for Mother's Day, purple phones for spring, bedazzled phones to accessorize our bling. If you listen to most marketers, one would assume that smartphone shopping for women comes down to a preference for pretty pastels and shiny objects. But it cannot be that simple, right? By Wired UK
Netherlands highways will glow in the dark from mid-2013
A smart road design that features glow in the dark tarmac and illuminated weather indicators will be installed in the Netherlands from mid-2013. By Wired UK
Skip the subway, take a ski lift to work instead
The future of mass transit will come with sweeping views, private cars, and schedule-free travel if a proposed gondola-based system takes off from sketchpads at a design firm, which stands a shot at occurring in fast-growing Texas. By NBC News
Scaling Your UX Strategy
In business today, "user experience" (or UX) has come to represent all
of the qualities of a product or service that make it relevant or
meaningful to an end-user — everything from its look and feel to how it
responds when users interact with it, to the way it fits into people's
daily lives. By Harvard Business Review
Thursday, January 10, 2013
Zaha Hadid Races To Finish A Building
A group of Chinese developers are copy-and-pasting a replica of a Zaha Hadid shopping complex that hasn't even been completed yet. By Fast Company
Bjarke Ingels, Architect
Bjarke Ingels, Architect
Bjarke Ingels is a Danish architect who heads the Bjarke Ingels Group. He is committed to ‘pragmatic utopian architecture’ and views his work as a way to give back to society and re-imagine the future. His designs can be seen around the world from Asia to the Manhattan skyline.
Wednesday, January 09, 2013
Tuesday, January 08, 2013
Facebook – New Design and Concept by Fred Nerby
Facebook, as one of the biggest online social network has been a part of people’s lives for the past years and for more years to come. That is why every single change on the site from now and then will either freak us out or praise Facebook for making things cooler and easier. By You the Designer
Well Timed Closure
The Subway Signal Light is a digital sand timer that intuitively changes color from green, to amber to red, informing the passenger through passive visual clues, that the doors to the train are about to close. By Yanko Design
Yanko Design Top 50 – Best Of 2012
Here is a look at the Top 50 Designs that made their mark thanks to their empowering fortitude. By Yanko Design
David Kelley on Designing Curious Employees
Design thinking is a process of empathizing with the end user. Its principal guru is David Kelley, founder of IDEO and the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford (otherwise known as the d.school), who takes a similar approach to managing people. He believes leadership is a matter of empathizing with employees. By Fast Company
David Kelley: The future of design is human-centered
IDEOs David Kelley says that product design has become much less about the hardware and more about the user experience. He shows video of this new, broader approach, including footage from the Prada store in New York. This was done in February of 2002.
5 Ways to Begin Designing Your Life in 2013
Great designers don’t just do design, they live design. Like them, we can learn how to practice design thinking principles both at work and at home. By Tim Brown
Wednesday, January 02, 2013
3 Principles For The Future Of Gaming
NASA’s New Space Suit Lets Astronauts Dress In Seconds
Alarm Clock App With A Slick Gestural UI
Gestural interfaces are hot, but they're still difficult to get right. Rise actually pulls it off. By Fast Company
Tuesday, January 01, 2013
Top 10 user resources from 2012
Ready or not, 2013 is on its way! To get you all jazzed up for the new year, here are 10 UX resources of 2012. From emerging trends to industry best practices, you’ll find some great ideas to inspire you in the coming year. From Userzoom
A Perfect Use for Personas
Personas of people who likely would benefit from things like recommendations, entertainment while waiting, a more efficient order process, and a faster way to pay. By Users Know
Raising the bar on mobile
One of the primary challenges of designing for mobile devices is that screen real estate is often in limited supply. By 24 Ways
Andy Budd
User Experience Designer and CEO of Clearleft, Andy is the author of CSS Mastery, curates the dConstruct and UX London events and is responsible for Silverbackapp, a low cost usability testing application for the Mac. Andy is a regular speaker at international conferences and was named one of the 100 most influential people in the UK digital sector by Wired Magazine. By Andy Budd
Agile Problems, UX solutions, Part 2
UX professionals sometimes misuse the terms pattern and pattern language—using them in an interchangeable manner. Indeed, even Web sites specializing in patterns and pattern languages sometimes confuse these terms! By UX Matters
Agile Problems, UX Solutions, Part 1
This is the first installment of a two-part article about how intelligent UX strategies can solve certain problems that are characteristic of agile development, as well intrinsically benefit our UX design work. By UX Matters
The Top 5 Website UX Trends of 2012
User interface techniques continued to evolve in 2012, often blurring the lines between design, usability, and technology in positive ways to create an overall experience that has been both useful and pleasurable. By UX Magazine
Monday, December 10, 2012
New Crowdfunding Site Seeks to Protect Backers of Industrial Design
Entrepreneur Jamie Siminoff wants to build more credibility into crowdfunding — so he’s launching a new platform that takes responsibility for ensuring the viability of new projects. By Wired
Tuesday, December 04, 2012
Designing new tools for mapping open defecation
Designing better training for farmers
Synthesis usually involves hours and hours of discussions and modeling and putting up Post-its and taking them back down. By IDEO
Saturday, November 24, 2012
Groups Make Change
We live (and work) in a world that is saturated with design and innovation, and not just on the shelves of the Apple store. The language of design and innovation is increasingly standard business parlance.
frog’s Connected Care Solution
As technology disrupts established healthcare systems and the traditional patient-provider dynamic, frog introduces a prototype Connected Care Solution (CCS) that seamlessly connects doctors and patients and supportive communities.
Monday, November 19, 2012
How James Dyson Makes the Ordinary Extraordinary
Twenty years after he launched his business—now a multinational enterprise with nearly 4,000 employees and $1.5 billion in annual sales—Dyson, at 65, still radiates a nuclear inventor’s heat.
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
A Trampoline Bridge For Bouncing Across Paris’s River Seine
The architects at Parisian firm Atelier Zündel Cristea know that bridges can be destinations in and of themselves. By Co.Design
This Might Be The World’s Best Designed Water Bottle
David Mayer likes water bottles. He really, really likes water bottles. “My goal is really to get people thinking about bottles not as these clunky, utilitarian pieces, but as statements. By Co.Design
Legendary Design Guru Jony Ive Now Runs Apple Software, Too
A management shakeup at Apple, may usher in a new era of more unified devices for Apple. By Co.Design
A Vast, Reflective Platform For Experimentation
Antony Gormley’s work has always hinted at an archeological reading of the human body. At the age of 44, he won the prestigious Turner Prize for Field, an installation of 40,000 terracotta figures blanketing the floor of the gallery. By Co.Design
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Giant wind-blown ball rolls around and detonates landmines
A childhood toy inspires a wind-powered minesweeper that could help clear the millions of active landmines buried around the globe. By CNET
Friday, September 28, 2012
How Do We Buy Smart Phones?
So what are the characteristics of the agnostics and unhappy prisoners who are open to a new phone/OS? By Design Mind
Envisioning The City of The Future
For the first time in human history, more people live in cities than in rural areas, and in the next 20 years the urban population will grow from 3.5 billion to 5 billion people. The social, economic, environmental, design, and engineering challenges of this transformation will shape the 21st century. By Design Mind
Saturday, May 26, 2012
The future: Our cars in 2030
At the rate things are going, we look to be making some good progress in automobile manufacturing. Hybrids and EVs have come out to offer future commuters green forms of transport. By AutoMotto
City in the Sky
It may look like scene right out a sci-fi flick where humans have begun to establish settlements on other planets in the universe and that too far in the future where traditional architectural norms have become mere relics of history, but this future mega developed city concept called the "Megatropolis" project may just be what a British city of the near future may look like. this architectural utopia came into being as a collaborative project between a few London-based artists and companies though the city that the project’s video depicts eventually ended up being NYC given how the production of the video was undertaken in the Big Apple. By Design Buzz
First Aid Jacket
Accidents can happen anytime and anywhere, but what is the most important in this case if timely first aid. By Design Buzz
UI iPad app to make group work more intuitive
Back in the good old days, having a team collaborate on a group project translated into people huddling over a bunch of papers on the meeting desk where people would be free to provide inputs via doodles and gestures or silly drawings that served as rough drafts. By Design Buzz
oRo
Rising fuel prices and pollution levels have triggered designers to come up with vehicles that come smothered in eco friendliness. By Design Buzz
Sprout Ambient Infant Monitor
Being a new parent can be very grueling for first timers especially if they have a packed schedule to work around. By Design Buzz
Sea Cleaning Drones
The problem of ocean oil pollution is a serious threat to the natural environment and its wildlife that often proves too much for people to handle alone if not overlooked altogether. By Yanko Design
2-N-1
The first of its kind, the 2Wheela is a concept vehicle that merges the practicality of super-compacts with the spaciousness of vans. Confused?! By Yanko Design
Friday, May 25, 2012
Frog eBike 2012
Ever since the birth of the bicycle nearly two hundred years ago, designers, builders, and manufacturers have been inspired to evolve this two-wheeled mode of transportation. By Frog Design
Defining and Discussing the Meaning of "Jugaad"
Have you ever wished, when reading a thought-provoking book, that you could invite the author to lunch and simply talk about his or her ideas and inspiration? By Frog Design
Design Communities & Spaces
While the internet and the buzz of social networking sites have helped
like-minded people find each other and build online communities, there
still is an extended arm to these social communities. It involves live
interaction with multiple viewpoints, ardent discussions and debates
with an eye open towards creative innovations. By Frog Design
Redesigning the Shopping List
“One of Albert Heijn’s greatest strengths as a company is our ability to understand what the customer wants and translate that insight into innovative products and services.” - Dick Boer, President and CEO. By Frog Design
Disruption by Design
As Ralph Caplan defines it, "Design is a process for making things right." This definition captures the optimism of design, and it implies our fairly natural intuition about when a situation is “wrong” or broken.
In this TEDxSMU talk, frog Creative Director Kate Canales argues that design is something we come by quite naturally as humans. We design our way around broken systems everyday. The trick, of course, is to figure out how to apply that tendency to bigger and bigger issues.
This talk is about the little things Canales has seen that give her hope about our collective ability to design for those big problems. It is also about her belief that there will almost always be a thing in design, but the thing itself is not what matters. What matters is what the thing makes us do.
The Urbaneers
TED Fellow Mitchell Joachim and his team at Planetary ONE are going beyond green to re-engineer Brooklyn, New York’s most populous borough. By Frog Design
Cities in the Digital Age
For many people, the draw of cities is their pulse and flow, the veer and crush of humans, our shared machines, the vertical, the symmetrical, the seemingly impossible. By Frog Design
Stories of Change
Recently, frog Senior Interaction Designer Alex Tam and Associate Creative Director Dave Chiu were invited to participate in the Stories of Change Impact Lab held at Tomorrow Partners in Berkeley, California. By Frog Design
Monday, May 21, 2012
This Gizmo Lets You Draw A UI On Paper, Then Turns It Into A Touch Screen
You’ll just have to watch the video to appreciate the amazing possibilities of the SketchSynth, created by Billy Keyes. By Fast Company
A Cafe Where You Can Ride Your Bike On The Roof
The roof of this bike rental shop and cafe in southern China is actually a functioning cycling track. And it’s climate-appropriate, too. By Fast Company
To Get To The Root Of A Hard Problem, Just Ask “Why” Five Times
In The Lean Startup, Eric Ries argues that returning to the question of why five times cuts to the quick of a problem. By Fast Company
Friday, May 11, 2012
33 Creative QR Code Business Cards
A QR code is a type of matrix barcode designed to be read by smartphones. The code consists of black modules arranged in a square pattern on a white background. So in today’s collection we have compiled 33 creative business cards with qr codes. Enjoy!!
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