Carlos Elena-Lenz from Frog has published an interesting blog post in Design Mind on 6 characteristics within the Internet of Things (IOT). Intelligence Connectivity Sensing Expressing Energy Safety By framing …
Different kinds of Design Principles
Uday Gajendar has written about the different kinds of Design Principles. http://www.ghostinthepixel.com/?p=901 He mentions at least 4 kinds of principles: Cultural Systemic Tactical Legendary
Brent Yorgey’s Factorization Diagrams
Brent Yorgey has written a post on Visualisations using factors (Factorization Diagrams). Recently Jason Davies has written on the Diagrams using D3 and a demo by Vjeux. In 2012 Brent …
Innovating in the real world from IDEO’s Diego Rodriguez
Principles for innovating in the real world according to IDEO’s Diego Rodriguez should start with foundational approaches designed to help you make innovations happen. http://thenextweb.com/dd/2011/05/08/21-principles-for-innovating-in-the-real-world-from-ideos-diego-rodriguez Experience the world instead of …
A list of 22 free Visualization Tools
ComputerWorld has featured a really useful list of 22 free visualisation tools http://www.computerworld.com The notable ones are: Visual.ly – a new tool to create data visualisations (blogs.journalism.co.uk) Last.fm visualisation (michele.me)
TED video of Steven Johnson: Where good ideas come from
People often credit their ideas to individual “Eureka!” moments. But Steven Johnson shows how history tells a different story. His fascinating tour takes us from the “liquid networks” of London’s …
IDEO’s vision on the Future of Books
IDEO have created a nice concept video on their visions for the future of the book. Meet Alice and Nelson – different experiences linking diverse discussions, connected readers, multiple stories and community building around books.
Mozilla Firefox 4 Beta UI Heatmap
The Mozilla Firefox 4 Beta team & community have published some findings on the use of the UI for the new Firefox 4 Beta with a heatmap of the UI. …
Designing for Openness & for Loss of control
Tim Leberecht has written an insightful article on the design for openness, ideation and the design for the loss of Control. Openness is no longer just a nice stunt but …
6 Digital Trends to Watch
The presentation by Steve Rubel ( Director of Insights) & David Armano ( SVP Digital ) on 6 digital trends to watch. Six Digital Trends To Watch by Steve Rubel and David Armano View …
Patternry’s a great source for UI design patterns
Patternry, previously known as The UI Pattern Factory (and for a while Pattern App), is a resource for everyone who needs to design or develop user interfaces. It is a …
An interview with Larry Cornett, Yahoo Director of User Experience Design
I do like the concept that you have with the information scent, the semantic mapping. I think it definitely ties into the mental model that a user has when they …
A quote from Bill Moggridge’s book Designing Interactions
Artists and designers are trained to use the language of explicit meanings to a rich communicative element over and above direct functional communication. If we only design with the function …
Peter Morville, keynote speaker at EuroIA in Berlin September, 2006
This year’s European IA summit in Berlin, to be held on the weekend of Sept 30 – Oct 1, 2006, looks to be one of this year’s not-to-be-missed conferences for …