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How to Solve a Rubik's Cube for BEGINNERS - With Animations! 7 Design Principles, Inspired By Zen Wisdom.

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How we end up marrying the wrong people. Sortie en mer. MIT Invents A Shapeshifting Display You Can Reach Through And Touch. We live in an age of touch-screen interfaces, but what will the UIs of the future look like?

MIT Invents A Shapeshifting Display You Can Reach Through And Touch

Will they continue to be made up of ghostly pixels, or will they be made of atoms that you can reach out and touch? At the MIT Media Lab, the Tangible Media Group believes the future of computing is tactile. Unveiled today, the inFORM is MIT's new scrying pool for imagining the interfaces of tomorrow. Almost like a table of living clay, the inFORM is a surface that three-dimensionally changes shape, allowing users to not only interact with digital content in meatspace, but even hold hands with a person hundreds of miles away.

India Pakistan Partition BBC Special Presentation. Dadaviz. Live Streaming Player of Today's Match - FIFA World Cup 2014. Comic strip for 07/12/1989 from the official Dilbert comic strips archive. Choosing the Right Metrics for User Experience. By Pamela Pavliscak Published: June 2, 2014 “Metrics are the signals that show whether your UX strategy is working.

Choosing the Right Metrics for User Experience

Using metrics is key to tracking changes over time….” Metrics are the signals that show whether your UX strategy is working. Using metrics is key to tracking changes over time, benchmarking against iterations of your own site or application or those of competitors, and setting targets. Although most organizations are tracking metrics like conversion rate or engagement time, often they do not tie these metrics back to design decisions. Open Culture digs up a 1954 animated adaptation of... Coursekit is now Lore.

Open Culture digs up a 1954 animated adaptation of...

What’s the Story? Culture & SocietyHistory & LiteratureMedia & Communication Open Culture digs up a 1954 animated adaptation of Orwell’s Animal Farm, funded by the CIA – the best thing since Ralph Steadman’s brilliant illustrations for it. Read the story here. #Animal Farm#George Orwell#lit#animation#film. The 50 Coolest Book Covers Ever - Entertainment. Title: American Psycho.

The 50 Coolest Book Covers Ever - Entertainment

Electromagnetic Leak (update 2014) 100 Most Creative People 2014. Kierkegaard on Anxiety & Creativity. By Maria Popova.

Kierkegaard on Anxiety & Creativity

Buy Crazyflie Nano Quadcopter Kit 10-DOF with Crazyradio (BC-CFK-02-B) [ROB01315M. BlueCopter - Arduino Quadcopter. Beginner Quadcopter Kit Buying Guide - Hovership. I frequently get asked how much it costs to build a quadcopter or other multi-rotor helicopter.

Beginner Quadcopter Kit Buying Guide - Hovership

I usually try to add together a number real quick based on equipment I own. Which could come close to $1000. I decided to look closer at the real cost for a basic complete setup to get started flying (if you own zero RC gear). Below is a buying guide that includes everything needed to put a quadcopter in the air. Factlink — Share your knowledge for a better world. Affordances. The concept of an affordance was coined by the perceptual psychologist James J.

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Gibson in his seminal book The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception. The concept was introduced to the HCI community by Donald Norman in his book The Psychology of Everyday Things from 1988. There has however been ambiguity in Norman's use of the concept, and the concept thus requires a more elaborate explanation. Norman's use of the term According to Norman (1988) an affordance is the design aspect of an object which suggest how the object should be used; a visual clue to its function and use. "...the term affordance refers to the perceived and actual properties of the thing, primarily those fundamental properties that determine just how the thing could possibly be used. [...] Book lists and commentary from esteemed designers and architects. Photoshop Etiquette. 21 examples of user experience innovation in ecommerce. Yes I Saw Your Text, But Don’t Expect Me to Respond Instantly — Better Humans.

Mind Mapping Software - Create Mind Maps online. He Barely Makes a Living Doing What He Loves. But Boy — What an Amazing Life Worth Living. Li Ka-Shing teaches you how to buy a car & house in 5 years. This article is translated from the original Chinese by Edmund Ng at CeoConnectz.

Li Ka-Shing teaches you how to buy a car & house in 5 years

Suppose your monthly income is only RMB 2,000, you can live well. I can help you put money into five sets of funds. The first $600, second $400, third $300, fourth $200, fifth $500. The World's 25 Best Design Schools. As we enter the golden age of design in startups, highly talented user-interface and product designers are becoming ever more important.

The World's 25 Best Design Schools

Some companies leading the charge are Apple, Path, Pinterest, Square, and Airbnb. What those companies have in common is that design is at the core of their businesses. But which school is best suited to get you the design job you want? Over the past couple of months, we conducted a survey to find the top 25 design schools in the world. All of these schools are comparable in terms of academics, quality of staff, and amazing campuses.

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Melon: A Headband and Mobile App to Measure Your Focus by Melon

Aparna Rao: Art that craves your attention. Design Interactions Programme. Online Application Login. Application System Requirements Supported browsers include Internet Explorer 8, 9, and 10, Firefox, Chrome and Safari. While the majority of features will work with other browsers, we can only guarantee full compatibility and offer support for the browsers mentioned above. If you are using Compatibility View with Internet Explorer, some pages may not look as intended. We recommend removing applyourself.com from your list of sites that have Compatibility View enabled. For IE8: In Internet Explorer, open the Tools menu at the top and select Compatibility View Settings.

For IE9: In Internet Explorer, right-click on the gear icon in the upper right hand corner, next to the "favorites" star icon. University of Washington. Master of Design applicants must select a concentration in Industrial Design, Interaction Design or Visual Communication Design. Annual admission to the graduate program is on a competitive basis. On average, five percent of all applicants are admitted. The University of Washington Graduate School requires a four-year bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution and a 3.0 grade point average for the last 90 quarter credit hours (or last 60 semester credit hours) earned.

The GRE is not required. Google DevArt. The Lists, To-dos and Illustrated Inventories of Great Artists. Let’s Try a New Design Trend – Polygon Style. Create amazing polygon illustrations in Photoshop CS6. In this Photoshop tutorial I'm going to show you how you can take any image and use it as the basis for something cleaner and more stripped down. Fully rendered images, with realistic light, shadow and texture, are great and have their place but sometimes it's nice to get back to bare bones and treat an image more as a graphic than anything else. How to Create a Polygonal Vector Mosaic in Illustrator. Final Image Preview. Facebook Develops A Photoshop For Interaction Design, And It's Free For Anyone To Use. We’ve already waxed poetically about Facebook’s new app Paper, which reskins the bloated Facebook experience to feel like a top-tier interactive media product.

The Facebook feed is reimagined as a grid of cards that put video and images first, and you can explore them through innovative gestures--like tilting your camera to pan through a panoramic photo. Tushar Vashisht: How I lived on 32 Rupees a day. Posted on 30/1/14.