User Designer

Time for another Creativity Knowledge. Today I’m pointing you towards Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp), aka. Calm Technology.
How could you make shopping for food easier?
Imagine making a shopping list on your computer. As you head out the door to the supermarket the shopping list automatically stores itself on your mobile phone. Of course you’re always forgetting [...]

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Time for a quick hop skip and jump into cognitive science. Yep, I’ve already broken a New Year resolution by writing a longer post than I aimed for….though it is about some really interesting research that goes directly to the heart of User Designer: Are there benefits and dangers of changing artifacts and tools to [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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