As Apple’s WWDC 24 kicks off this week following the Keynote announcement, Apple has started sharing some of the Developer conference events, with explanations on how to better design and …
The role of design in shaping new fictions within Web3 and AI
Caio Braga, Fabricio Teixeira & Luciano Infanti have written an excellent article that explores design in new fictions – the invisible social contracts that we all accept and subscribe to …
Interaction Design today, a short documentary
Every year, IxDA’s Interaction Awards assembles a diverse group of design practitioners from all around the world to select exemplary projects in six impact-based categories from among a community peer-reviewed …
Enjoying the great talk by Ian Bach at IxD15
@IanBach – IanBa.ch – #IxD15 We discussed the IxD15 Ian Bach presentation last night (amongst others) at the IxDA London Movie night at the Wellcome Trust. Ian Bach @ixd15 talks …
Behavioural Adaptation & The Peltzman Effect on Design
I came across an interesting discussion today on the Peltzman Effect on the Golden Gate bridge. The bridge has recently seen an unexpected increase in speeding due to introduced forced …
Photos from IxDA London Durrell Bishop talk
Last week, a group of us attended the IxDA London talk by Durrell Bishop, one of the most respected Designers in London. His enlightening talk explored a different approach to …
Cooper diagrams from About Face 4
Cooper has shared a number of diagrams from the work in About Face 4. The slides and diagrams are shared via a Creative Commons 4.0 BY-ND license. The first edition …
Google’s Material design
Wired has written another post on Google’s Material Design, this time looking at the considerations within Interaction Design. Material design is a few things. It’s a makeover—a “sweeping, well-reasoned, and …
Mike Bostock on Scroll-based Interactions
Mike Bostock has written about 5 rules for effective scrolling within touch-based gestural, keyboard & other interactive storytelling and visualisations. Citing a few examples including the Apple Mac Pro site …
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
Spacially Aware Interactions & Devices
Ishac Betran has shared a blog post and video of the idea for Spacially aware interactions on his blog. spatial |ˈspeɪʃ(ə)l| (also spacial) Adjective Relating to space: the spatial distribution …
The 25th BCS Conference of Human Computer Interaction, HCI2011
The theme for the 25th BCS Conference on Human Computer Interaction – HCI2011 – is Health, Wealth & Happiness. We would like to celebrate how the design, development and use …
Protovis is replaced by D3
Protovis, the free and open-source visualisation JavaScript library has been replaced by D3 a new visualisation library with improved support for animations and interactions. http://mbostock.github.io/protovis The final release of Protovis …
Content Aware Fill & Adobe Photoshop CS5
Some of the new interesting features for Adobe Photoshop CS5 includes showing off effects even developers did not intend. One such feature is Content Aware Fill as written about on …
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 …