What I Learned When I Started a Design Studio. Earlier in the year, I wrote a bit about the design services industry in two blog posts: first, I wrote “The End of Client Services” in July, which outlined my thoughts on why the best interaction design is done outside of the studio/agency model.
Then in August I followed up with “In Defense of Client Services,” which expands a little bit on why I believe services is such a difficult way to earn a living as a designer. I had meant to write a third post, but getting Mixel out the door got in the way. Over the past several days I was finally able to find the time to hammer out this follow-up. Actually, I’ve been making notes for this blog post all year long, because it was ten years ago that I co-founded an interaction studio here in New York City, partnering with some colleagues from a previous employer. X to Close — re:form. X’s are everywhere in user interface (UI) design.
A powerful symbol, [x] is capable of closing windows and popups, toolbars and tabs and anything else that might otherwise be cluttering up your screen. Lasersaur Manual. Squink Lets You Print A Circuit Board For The Price Of A Cup Of Coffee. 3D printing has changed the way engineers test products, allowing them to cut down on time and costs.
But what about 3D printing the components that go into most of these products? Botfactory computer engineer Carlos Ospina said that most of the people he encountered didn’t believe it was possible. Formlabs Form 1+ 3D Printer at werd.com. Graphic, violent old public safety posters from Holland. Man, these vintage Dutch safety posters from the early through late 20th century are scary and beautiful as hell.
If you're squeamish, maybe don't click. The messages are also blunt, with no attempt at making people feel good about bad things that befall others. Below, "Have every wound of any significance taken care of. Study finds walking improves creativity. By May Wong L.A.
Cicero Many people claim they do their best thinking while walking. A new study finds that walking indeed boosts creative inspiration. Steve Jobs, the late co-founder of Apple, was known for his walking meetings. This Is What Your Face Will Look Like In 2060. Google Glass is now old news.
In January, Google announced it was working on a product even more closely melded with the human body: Smart contact lenses that contain a chip to measure glucose levels in diabetics' tears. Google engineers aren't the only ones working on fusing wearable tech to skin. And no longer is it such a crazy, far-off fantasy that the human form will feature elements of the cybernetic--that these contact lenses could project augmented realities onto our physical world. 2014同济创新Yi动课堂-轻装前行，梦享澳洲，全球招募！ Interactive Fabrication » New Interfaces for Digital Fabrication.
Fabricate Yourself 26 Feb 2011 Fabricate Yourself is a project that documented the Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction Conference.
Usually we think of documentation in terms of text, photography and … Reflective Prism. Philip Beesley Architect Inc. - Sculptures and Installations. Petting Zoo: Interactive Robotic Creatures That Evolve Over Time. Petting Zoo The pets in the installation Petting Zoo by architecture and design studio Minimaforms—Stephen and Theodore Spyropoulos—are unlike any pets you've come across before.
Not only do they look like they come from another planet, but they're AI creatures that learn from their interactions with participants, displaying life-like qualities to "foster human curiosity, play, forging intimate exchanges that are emotive and evolving over time. " The installation takes the form of neon-lit robotic tentacles that hang from the ceiling. As members of the public draw near these automated helixes react to them, responding to movement and changing their behavior depending on their interactions with the visitors. Minimaforms' work explores the experimental applications of technology with regards to architecture and design—and this latest project follows on from their previous work that examines cybernetic and behavior-based design systems. I left New York for LA because creativity requires the freedom to fail.
I was born on 148th Street in 1965, and from then until the late 1990s it never dawned on me to live anywhere other than New York City.
When I lived on 14th Street in the late 1980s, I paid $140 a month to share an apartment with a bunch of other odd and dysfunctional musicians and artists. AIDS, crack and a high murder rate kept most people away from New York back then. But even though it was a war zone, or perhaps to some extent because it was a war zone, Manhattan was still the cultural capital of the world. Of course everything's changed since. New York has, to state the obvious, become the city of money. The gradual shift in New York's economic fortunes and mores reminds me of the boiling frog theory. During the 1990s, thanks to the cessation of the crack epidemic, New York became increasingly safer and more affluent, and less artist-friendly, but it was still the place I wanted to call home.
Open Innovation: Getting Started. A hundred of OI flowers Let a hundred open innovation flowers blossom.
Beyond the traditional one-to-one partnership for coinnovation, whopping initiatives are thriving on a one-to-many scale: it seems we have already entered Spring. Taking a closer look, one can sort out different intents, resulting in distinct open innovation processes. No Longer Clashing, Wearable Tech Embraces Fashion. Continue reading the main story Video WEARABLE electronics have been stuck in a design rut. Bulky watches, bright wristbands and Roman-gladiator-meets-the-Jetsons arm straps have been the go-to look for manufacturers like Nike and Jawbone. But these wearable gadgets — often a dull representation of function over form — are finally getting a fashion-industry makeover. Fitbit, the maker of the Fitbit One and Flex, has teamed with the designer Tory Burch to make new trackers that look like stylish jewelry. Designing a timeless smartwatch. 605inShare Jump To Close. Parametric 3d printing : Beautiful Seams. Experimentations in parametric 3d printing About a year ago, I got a great book on using the Kinect for art and design work : “Making Things See” by Greg Borenstein↓.
This book gradually introduces working in Processing with the kinect infrared and rgb cameras, creating a point cloud in space and even tracking people and body gestures. Liquidity. Patrick Stevenson-Keating is an experimental industrial designer – working largely on speculative, critical projects that deal with scientific or technological issues and ideas.
You may recall in the recent December/January issue of Desktop (#289 — Futureproof) we featured one of his projects called The Quantum Paralleograph, a fascinating device which simulates the experience of users being able to glimpse into their “parallel lives” and observe their alternate realities. Patrick is now developing his first commercial product, Liquidity, which is a set of imaginative, exploratory table lamps marrying the modern material technology of conductive ink with hand blown glassware. We recently spoke with Patrick about the project, and he had this to say about its development — Inspired by the potential of BARE conductive ink, and curious to explore an alternative use for this new material, I aimed to exploit its properties in its crude liquid form. Slidedocs. Museum of Handcraft Paper by TAO.
Slideshow: this cluster of asymmetric wooden huts houses a museum dedicated to the craft of paper-making in a mountainside village in rural China. Designed by Chinese studio Trace Architecture Office (TAO), the museum comprises eight timber-clad blocks connected to one another by glazed corridors. The largest of the buildings marks the museum entrance but also houses studios and accommodation for artists or other guests upstairs.
The six single-storey gallery huts line the edges of the site, sandwiching a small courtyard and a two-storey tearoom in the space between. www.futurebrand.com/images/uploads/studies/cbi/MADE_IN_Final_HR.pdf. Transmediale. The secret to creativity, intelligence and scientific thinking: Being able to make connections. 10.3K Flares Filament.io 10.3K Flares × When we shared this image from the @buffer Twitter account recently, it got me thinking. Conflict and Design. Essay John Thackara. 5 Presentation Predictions for 2014.
I often get asked what is on the horizon in the world of presentations. Joseph Muller-Brockmann’s Typographic Re-boot. In the mid 60’s, when I was just learning about design and typography at Yale, Modernism was the style du jour. I was intellectually turned on by the minimalism (one font, usually Akzidenz in just a few sizes), the rules (flush left, ragged right, the logic of the grid) and the idea of a “universal” aesthetic where content of any variety could be accommodated in this rational system. DIY 3D Head-Mounted-Display using your smartphone. Smart Phone Controlled Christmas Tree with RGB LED Strip. The $74 PVC Mega Awesome Super PVC Table. Wow. The book we all wish we could have read as children. A Stand-up Desk (Ikea hack) : Kelli Anderson. Instagram. Instagram. Instagram. Instagram. Instagram. Instagram. Instagram. Instagram. Instagram. Skull armchair.
Here's Harow's polygonal skull armchair, which does a pretty good job of hiding the skull from the front, making it just the thing for supervillains with a need for furnishings that work when on the job or taking a break. Price on demand, which probably means, if you have to ask, you can't afford it. Photos of "the world's most exquisite libraries" 2013 Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture（Shenzhen） Designer Creates Logos For Typefaces, Made Using Other Typefaces. Forget Microsoft's Kinect, some students in Vietnam have a much better solution. Vietnamese startups are not yet known for their hardware, but that is quickly changing. Folks like Misfit Wearables, with their headquarters in the Valley, have their entire engineering and product team here in Vietnam.
Putting a Systems Sensitive Design Tool Through its Paces. Fully Booked. Ink on Paper. Design and Concepts for New Publications. Meet The 13 Designers On Fast Company's Most Creative People List. Meet Drone Shield, an ambitious idea for a $70 drone detection system. How-To: HAL-in-the-Box. Irony: Just As 3-D Interfaces Are Getting Good, Apple's UI Is Going Flat. Frog Predicts: Flexible Displays Will Soon Change The World. An Ingenious Cookbook Uses Infographics Instead Of Words. Can Bud's New Beer Can Become An Icon Like The Coke Bottle? How Reframing A Problem Unlocks Innovation. The secrets of body language: why you should never cross your arms again. A Design Revolution That Could Lift Humanity. How an accountant created an entire RPG inside an Excel spreadsheet. What's The Secret To Design Innovation? Extreme Immersion.
S April 2013 Trend Briefing covering the consumer trend "CLEAN SLATE BRANDS" Replace Your iPhone Interface With A Dieter Rams Classic. First Look: How The Google Glass UI Really Works. CollabFinder Wants To Make Hackathons A Part Of College Life. How Serious Play Leads To Breakthrough Innovation. A scientific guide to saying "no": How to avoid temptation and distraction. A scientific guide to saying "no": How to avoid temptation and distraction. From Google And Berg, A Superb Concept For Better Video Chatting. 3 Paths Toward A More Creative Life.
The Next Big UI Idea: Gadgets That Adapt To Your Skill. Blog Archive RAWR Open House: Future of Design & Tech in China » LumDimSum. 12 Trippy Scenes From The Master Of GIFs. No Joke: Polaroid Plans To Produce The Instagram Camera By 2014. Remarkable Images Of Volcanic Lightning, A Scientific Mystery. From Google Ventures: 4 Steps For Combining The Hacker Way With Design Thinking. 7 Of The Biggest Lies In Graphic Design. From An Apple Alum, An App That Makes Design Presentations A Cinch. 8 Brilliant Concepts For The Future Of Wearable Tech. Why This Oscar-Winning Disney Short Looks Like Nothing Made Before. What you should really copy from Apple. A History of Future Cities: The Rise of New Shanghai. Envisioning the urban skyscraper of 2050. A Dictionary of Surrealism and the Graphic Image. Kickstarter’s New Mobile App Feels Like Instagram For A Reason.
Watch: Space-Time Explained With A Music Box And Möbius Strip. 4 Lessons From The Web’s Most Ruthlessly Addictive Site. How-To: $5 Mobile Phone Projector. Infographic: The Intricate Anatomy of UX Design. S Infographic of the Trend Briefing on “Virgin Consumers ” Maker. CODING FOR GOOD. How Design Thinking Could Help Solve the Skills Gap. BigDataforDevelopment-UNGlobalPulseJune27. Animadver : The creative process from Weibo... Journal of Design Research (JDR.