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How will this shift and change the way products are defined, shaped, and made? Will it make products or services easier, better, more enjoyable, more intuitive or more meaningful to use? Consider the following scenarios: Mobile Location Based Services: You’re tired and cranky after another distressingly...
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Traditionally, the notion of Beauty and Elegance is what makes classic examples of automotive design, which is designed to encourage observers to dream about an irreverent future. In the early days of the 1920’s and 1930’s these notions of dramatic proportions were predicated on people who lived...
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So what do we (and the brands we live by) gain by replacing our buttons with pixels and graphics? The answer is: possibilities. Touch opens a wider variety of interface and application options not constrained by old degrees of interaction physicality. It has improved on the accessibility and experience...
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As designers/industrial designers/architects/visionary futurists we must be able to employ many tools, and with the passing of the hand-drawn ship curves we are now permanently entering the realm of an almost fully digital process. With so many new softwares becoming available, the creative...
Ethnography, Explorations, Uncategorized
I just came back from my first Idea Couture business trip. They sent me ‘down South’ to Austin, Texas and part of my job was to familiarize myself with the culture, customs, and styles of the city. My goal was to research and soak in as much of the lifestyle as I possibly could; but how do you become...
Explorations, Featured Explorations
Time Inc. put out a video today of what will be (and in some cases envision) the ‘new magazine’. Unfortunately, the ‘new magazine’, is a lot like the old magazine, only digital instead of a paper product. Magazines are currently a dying breed. There simply isn’t enough...
Experience Design, Explorations, Featured Explorations, Service Design
Recently I’ve been having some problems with my cell phone, but who hasn’t, right? Whenever I send out a text message, my friends receive 4 or 5 duplicates of that same message. After getting multiple complains from many people and becoming hesitant when sending out any sort of text, I was finally...
Experience Design, Explorations, Featured Explorations, Industrial Design
There is something profoundly valuable about the ability to offer someone a seat when there are none available.
Explorations, Featured Explorations, Industrial Design
100 Wishes is a participative memoriam built upon the metaphor of the dandelion. As the dandelion plant matures, its flowers turn into white fluffy seeds, which are distributed by wind and travel like tiny parachutes. When they find a place of rest they begin to grow again, symbolizing rebirth and...
Explorations, Featured Explorations, Technology
Having spent the last post pondering about tabs and their relevance to User Interfaces, it got me thinking about the taskbar that is now standard in Windows 7. Having had barely any experience with Vista (only a few days before I was unhappy and tried the beta of Windows 7), it came as a surprise to...
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