Tag Archives: ux
All agog over Twitter
There’s apparently a “solution” out there that’s just right for me and it’s called Twitter. Sadly I’m having a hard time coming up with the right problem for it to solve. As of now, I’m thinking it involves me not having a novel way of showing off my dog Clyde.
Here’s a short description I found [...]
The Purr of 248hp at 185kW
If the Prius or the Honda Hybrids aren’t doing it for you, check out what the folks at Tesla Motors are building. Pretty amazing & impressive engineering. I saw a nice presentation from JB Straubel (Tesla’s CTO) and Bill Moggridge (IDEO, Tesla design consultant) where they outlined some of the decisions that went into the [...]
Is it even a meal?
I’ve watched Bourdain’s Decoding Ferran Adria a few times now; incredibly fascinating. What Adria is doing reminded me of a bit I once read from DeBono about vertical and lateral thinking:
Logic is the tool that is used to dig holes deeper and bigger, to make them altogether better holes. But if the hole is in [...]
Remembering how to think
As an experiment, I decided to kill my aggregator. The idea was to take the few handfuls of feeds I really enjoy and/or depend on, put them back in my browser and use Firefox’s nice “Open In Tabs” feature. Within a week I was hooked on my new method and a little angry. Turns out [...]
Sexy schemas?!
Jeremy Zawodny decided to “annotate” Tom Coates’ recent Future of Web Apps presentation. Not sure the annotations really add much value, in fact, one seems particularly backwards:
Start designing with data, not pages
Figure out what data is important, how it will be stored, represented, and transferred. Think about the generic services that one can build on [...]
The MAYA Design Experience
MAYA Design knows immersive design. This time, they collaborated with the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design on a long-distance academic project to design a national park.
“In keeping with the theme of the course, the students unveiled their final recommendations by staging an immersive experience. They filled a large, round room with process sketches, [...]
Another Tom Kelley radio bit
This time from the Commonwealth Club, “Strategies for Driving Creativity Throughout Your Organization.” It’s a RealAudio stream, about an hour long.
Announcing Studio One
“We are excited to announce the first of Fit’s series of studios. Studio One will be an intense learn-by-doing experience for twenty participants. Together, we will observe people in some context and activity, create product concepts, and evaluate those concepts with mockups and prototypes. Studio One provides a base of experience for later, deeper exploration [...]
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