Interview with Andrew Kim, and his thought about what makes for good design. By InHOWse
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
Monday, January 28, 2013
4 Reasons Your UX Investment Isn’t Paying Off
We all know the business case for doing user experience (UX) work: Investing upfront in making products easy to use really pays off. It reduces project risk, cost, and time while improving, efficiency, effectiveness, and end user satisfaction. By Mashable
Follow Customers as They Actually Behave
Poor Elias St. Elmo Lewis. When he first described the sales funnel more than 100 years ago, he was trying to map the path a single customer took to a single purchase. Little did he know how badly we'd one day abuse his model. By Ad Age
Sunday, January 27, 2013
Redesigning Google
How Larry Page engineered a beautiful revolution. The new Google way is weird, but it's working. Read the article by Wired
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.
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