Posted in General, Link Bucket on Dec 20th, 2007 Write a comment »
Want a seat that’ll be there when you need it? Watch this neat design concept video of an interactive seat which follows you around! (via core77)
Have a look at Yahoo’s Design Innovation Team project website for some interesting visualisations and interactive concepts.
we make money not art writes about creating art with living materials. There’s something [...]
Posted in General, Link Bucket on Dec 18th, 2007 Write a comment »
Dear Santa can I have a Dattoo (by frog design) and a Timeflex (from solovyovdesign). More at Top 10 technology wonders that don’t exist yet
A clever kinda crowdsourcing business idea: Low Cost Usability Testing
Scientists have discovered a second light-sensing system in the human eye that tells your body whether its day or night.
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Posted in Creativity Knowledge, General on Dec 13th, 2007 Write a comment »
In today’s Creativity Knowledge post I’m focusing on a series of research projects from Patrick Baudisch, who is affiliated with the VIBE group in Microsoft Research and DUB in the University of Washington. Over the years Patrick and co-researchers have developed a range of innovative interaction techniques focused on enhancing people’s ability to move content [...]
Posted in General, Link Bucket on Dec 11th, 2007 Write a comment »
Can you tell how much cuter one design, product or toy is than another design, product or toy? How do you know its cuter? Is it how it works? How it feels? How it moves? How it looks? Interesting workshop on Designing Cute Interactive Media at the upcoming Design of Interactive Systems 2008.
Test how your [...]
Posted in Creativity Knowledge, General on Dec 7th, 2007 Write a comment »
Look at Smash Magazine’s recent article on Modern Approaches To Data Visualization for a quick overview of key information visualizations.
Admire the 500+ visualizations at visualcomplexity.
Create your own online visualizations at Many Eyes.
Today I’m adding a new category called Creativity Knowledge to the User Designer blog. Creativity Knowledge will feature short posts highlighting specific examples [...]
Posted in General, Link Bucket on Dec 5th, 2007 Write a comment »
Crayon Physics is a sketch based game thats like the projects mentioned in Sketch & Draw = Create & Design Interactive �Things�. You really should try it out. Initially I thought it’d be the same as playing The Incredible Machine but it feels much looser and free form. Its knock your socks off pretty and [...]
Posted in Adaptable, Design, Physical, Virtual on Dec 3rd, 2007 Write a comment »
How can we help people easily create and explore the design space around physical / virtual objects? I’ve touched upon this before when I wrote about physical objects that are designed to be easy to re-shape by physical manipulation, e.g. Snap Cups and Shape A Seat, aka Don’t Forget Me, etc.
With that question in mind [...]
Hi my name is Mike Bennett & I'm a HCI / Vision Science postdoc researcher, interaction designer + hacker in the Psychology Dept of Stanford University. In this blog I explore design, cognitive & vision science, art, psychology, physiology, nanotech, perception, materials, etc, that enable anyone to shape their own user experiences... more
