Disruptive Thoughts on Complexity and Systems-Thinking in the Development Sector. Cp3d. The 3D Additivist Manifesto. The 3D Additivist Manifesto — The 3D Additivist Manifesto. Derived from petrochemicals boiled into being from the black oil of a trillion ancient bacterioles, the plastic used in 3D Additive manufacturing is a metaphor before it has even been layered into shape. Its potential belies the complications of its history: that matter is the sum and prolongation of our ancestry; that creativity is brutal, sensual, rude, coarse, and cruel. 1 We declare that the world’s splendour has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of crap, kipple 2 and detritus.
A planet crystallised with great plastic tendrils like serpents with pixellated breath 3 …for a revolution that runs on disposable armaments is more desirable than the contents of Edward Snowden’s briefcase; more breathtaking than The United Nations Legislative Series. There is nothing which our infatuated race would desire to see more than the fertile union between a man and an Analytical Engine.
Additivism will be instrumental in accelerating the emergence and encounter with The Radical Outside. 9. Bradford Shellhammer's advice for design entrepreneurs. Opinion: it's time for designers to start thinking more like businesspeople, says Bradford Shellhammer, creator of new design e-commerce site Bezar and co-founder of Fab. Designers – you are my heroes. In my lifetime I have had the pleasure of selling the designs (prints, necklaces, handbags, chairs, etc.) of over 20,000 designers.
That's a lot of cool people. Designers make the world more beautiful. More functional. Safer. More special. Many designers choose to work in larger corporations, which can be both rewarding and frustrating. This essay is about a different type of designer. There are many kinds of design business. These are jewellers and print houses and furniture shops and leather goods brands. It takes balls to forgo a steady paycheck working for someone else in exchange for founding a business making things that customers may or may not love.
There are four things a design entrepreneur needs to succeed: 1. Yes, I'm looking at you. How does one go about receiving validation? Shubhankar Ray: Design "doesn't know how to democratise" Design Indaba 2015: design brands operate in an "insider world" and are failing to connect with young consumers, according to the creative director of denim brand G-Star RAW (+ interview). Talking to Dezeen after speaking at the Design Indaba conference in Cape Town last month, Shubhankar Ray said that elite furniture and lighting companies were failing to make their products accessible to wider audiences. "I think that's the thing about the design world: it doesn't know very well how to democratise itself," he said. "It’s for the lucky few: people who know about the world of Vitra and Eames and Prouvé. " Ray, who was creative director for shoe brand Camper from 2000 to 2006 before joining Dutch clothing company G-Star RAW, collaborated with Vitra in 2013 to produce Prouvé RAW, a customised collection of furniture designs by pioneering French Modernist Jean Prouvé.
"Both Camper and G-Star fundamentally do not believe in fashion," he said. Marcus Fairs: Tell me about your background. Designers are adding billions of dollars to the tech industry. Design has become a "game changer" in Silicon Valley, according to a report by former Rhode Island School of Design president John Maeda, who says that designers are becoming essential to the success of tech companies.
Maeda's 2015 DesignInTech report said a growing trend for large US tech companies buying smaller creative businesses was proof that design had become an integral part of the technology industry. "Businesses started by designers have created billions of dollars of value, are raising billions of dollars in capital, and VC firms increasingly see the importance of design," said Maeda's report, published earlier this week. The report identified 27 startups founded by designers that had been bought by businesses such as Google, Facebook, Adobe, LinkedIn, Dropbox and Yahoo since 2010. These included photo sharing app Instagram, blogging platform Tumblr and creative portfolio website Behance.
"[Silicon Valley] didn't think a designer could build and run a company. The End Of Apps As We Know Them. The experience of our primary mobile screen being a bank of app icons that lead to independent destinations is dying. And that changes what we need to design and build. How we experience content via connected devices – laptops, phones, tablets, wearables – is undergoing a dramatic change. The idea of an app as an independent destination is becoming less important, and the idea of an app as a publishing tool, with related notifications that contain content and actions, is becoming more important. This will change what we design, and change our product strategy. No more screens full of app icons This is such a paradigm shift it requires plenty of explaining.
The idea of having a screen full of icons, representing independent apps, that need to be opened to experience them, is making less and less sense. The primary design pattern here is cards. Designing systems not destinations I covered this topic in detail in a previous post, so I’ll quickly summarise here. But that is changing fast. Seven designers for the future. Mon, 2 Feb 2015 | By Angus Montgomery To mark its 70th anniversary this year, the Design Council has identified 70 emerging designers that it is calling “Ones to Watch”. The designers were selected from initiatives including New Designers and the RSA Student Awards and chosen by a panel which featured Dame Martha Lane-Fox, Government Digital Service design director Ben Terrett and Why Not Associates founder Andy Altmann.
The designers were all selected for a particular project and come from a number of design disciplines. From the long-list of 70, we’ve chosen our seven “ones to watch”. Furniture – Marjan Van Aubel Marjan Van Aubel studied Design Products at the Royal College of Art and developed the Current Table – a piece of furniture that also functions as a source of energy. Brand Campaign – Jack Beveridge Jack Beveridge, a graduate from Kingston University, created the More Space campaign in response to a D&AD New Blood brief set by the National Trust. Interaction – Felix Faire. Ethnographic research in South Korea - NFC. This Year's 8 Smartest UI Design Ideas. A close-up of Matthaeus Krenn’s smart UI for touchscreens in cars.
Matthaeus Krenn When your family gathered for the holidays this year, did you take note of the technology everyone was using? There’s a decent chance you could’ve observed someone from every generation present ably navigating some sort of touchscreen. That’s kinda crazy! But it’s the new norm. With the rise of touchscreens, computers have become less confounding.
But that doesn’t mean taps, swipes, and pinches-to-zoom are the final frontier. Here, big and small, are some of the best UI ideas of 2014. Lollipop’s Lock Screen Notifications Material Design is Google’s ambitious bid to write a new rulebook for interactivity. Lollipop’s expandable notifications are slick. Google The new software makes the lock screen more functional. The takeaway: Google’s trying to let you skim the surface of your phone where possible without diving all the way in. Texting From Everywhere Texting texting everywhere. Apple I love this. Matt Krenn. The "hybrid-designers" shaping our future | Editor's View. Fri, 30 Jan 2015 | By Angus Montgomery Earlier this week Emily Bell, former Guardian journalist and now director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism, gave the annual Hugh Cudlipp lecture at London College of Communication.
The lectures series aims to explore the future of journalistm and is named after the legendary former tabloid editor who turned the Daily Mirror into one of Britain’s best-selling newspaper. Bell’s lecture explored the notion of the “digital tabloid” and looked a the rise of Google, Buzzfeed, citizen journalism. It’s pretty much required reading for anyone interested in communication and the media (you can see the full text here). The lecture also made some very interesting points about how we think about design, designers and the way that they shape our world. You can see this practice in the newly launched Guardian website – the result of a collaboration between journalists, designers and digital experts. Bad Assumptions. John Gruber is, as only he can, relishing the claim chowder – his collected bits of analyst wisdom sure, again and again, that Apple is doomed.
Apple, of course, is not doomed. In fact, the company is the very opposite of doomed, having just posted the best quarter of any company, ever.1 The analysts Gruber mocks were not just wrong (and, as everyone knows, they are only a small part of a much larger sample), they were hilariously wrong, and cost their clients millions of dollars. And yet, the perception that Apple is somehow hanging on by the skin of their teeth persists. I was speaking to someone about Apple’s particularly excellent China results this afternoon, and was struck at how their questions were so focused on threats to Apple – “How will Apple respond to Xiaomi” for example.
This is in stark contrast to the way most think about a company like Google, where their dominance in whatever field they choose to enter is assumed, just as Microsoft’s was a decade ago. And so they have. 5 Typeface Challenges in Designing For Next-Gen Interfaces. Jason Pamental is the co-founder of h+w design and author of ‘Responsive Typography.’ The explosion of new devices — phones, watches, health and fitness monitors and other wearable gadgets enabled by the Internet of Things — is yielding an increasingly interconnected set of user experiences.
Even our cars have smarter, more integrated displays that tie into application and phone ecosystems. Until recently, many of these devices (if they existed at all) had rather basic interfaces – with even less sophistication when it came to typography. This was due in part to the relatively small physical size of the devices and resulting limitations in hardware and memory. Cost has also been a driver. There’s not only a huge demand for these design changes, but a tremendous opportunity if we can overcome some key limitations that have hamstrung efforts thus far. Here are five typographic considerations designers should keep in mind when creating their next interface. 1. Why? 2. 3. 4. 5. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Empowering Sustainable Actions Through Design. Today’s cities are filled with creative ideas on how to decrease waste and make recycling initiatives more appealing to local residents.
However, although governments, local institutions and individuals around the world are beginning to become more environmentally conscious, it is still important to raise public awareness of recycling and reuse, encouraging people to make a positive impact on society. Germany, for instance, is well known for its strong social system. It is surprising to see how a society can be educated with simple actions. Instead of throwing bottles into the bin, people can get a reward by returning them to specific points (i.e supermarkets). A deposit is applied to the cost of reusable bottles when they are sold and it can only be recovered when the bottle is returned. Beer bottles are worth less than 10 cents, but most plastic bottles can be redeemed for 25 cents. For some people, it’s not worth the trouble of taking them back to the shop to get their deposit. Is DevOps Driving the Future of UX Design? Alan Cooper, the Father of Visual Basic, had the full attention of the entire class during his “Design Leadership” workshop.
In the calm reassuring tone of a wise patriarch he said, “Design is not so much a design issue as a power struggle.” At that moment, everyone began recalling experiences where their design process required more effort in exercising influence, diplomacy, and collaboration than anticipated. There was a shared solemn realization that the skills necessary to produce high quality design for increasingly complex, interactive products were going to require us to develop a broader awareness of product management, engineering, and executive imperatives.
It is enthusing how the designers world is expanding in the form of a broader and deeper collaboration, and this results from the accelerated pace at which software is delivered. The Tale of Two Tribes So why would a UX/UI designer be so interested in this movement? Cooks in the Kitchen Designers can lead by: Dissolving Silos. Designing for Different Online Personality Types. In my work as a web psychologist, I’m exposed to many different types of user behavior and online decision-making processes. Although each person is different and has an individual style, I have identified six recurring patterns of behavior that I identify as specific “online personality types.” In this piece, I’ll discuss the six pattern types, explain the psychological drivers of their behavior, and provide site optimization tips that online businesses can use to leverage each type’s unique desires. 1. The Wish Lister First up is the “There are so many things I want but know I can’t have” disorder.
What causes this behavior? Unlike a “real-life” shopping cart, an online cart promotes feelings of ownership because the user can add and remove items at any time, and those items will remain in the cart even if the visitor leaves the site. How can you influence the purchasing decision? 2. The Brand-Oriented Visitor is what we call an impulse buyer. 3. 4. Tweet this 5. 6. Conclusion. The Knight Foundation Is Funding a Large-Scale Expansion of Raleigh's 'Guerrilla' Wayfinding Signs. The Knight Foundation has announced it will fund a large-scale expansion of Matt Tomasulo's 2012 "WalkRaleigh" project. It started as a technically illegal exercise in improving how people experience the streets of Raleigh, North Carolina. Just some simple signs, lashed to light poles, at a few of the city’s key intersections, letting residents and visitors know what attractions and amenities could be found within walking distance and how many minutes it would take to reach them on foot.
“Guerrilla wayfinding” is what people called it. The signs, the brainchild of then-graduate student Matt Tomasulo, were meant to help people think differently about distances in the city, and to encourage them to get out of their cars and explore the place under their own power. When it debuted in 2012, the project drew international notice and received lots of favorable press coverage, including here on CityLab.
In communities such as Mount Hope, it’s not just newcomers who benefit, though. Yves Béhar's Fuseproject To Design For A New Social-Good Accelerator. This week, Yves Béhar’s award-winning industrial design firm, fuseproject, announced it will provide design services for a new accelerator program that will help develop businesses whose products and services support adolescent girls in Uganda, Rwanda, and Kenya. Created by the Nike Foundation, USAID, and the UK Department for International Development (DFID), SPRING will provide finance, mentorship, and technical expertise for 18 ventures selected each year for the next five years.
Fuseproject, the firm behind consumer smash hits like Jawbone and the August Smart Lock, will be working right alongside these ventures from the get-go, helping develop the business strategy, branding, prototypes, and products. (The firm's consulting fee will be covered by the Nike Foundation, USAID, and DFID.) Adolescent girls in Uganda, Rwanda, and Kenya represent the bottom of the economic pyramid in these countries. There will be challenges. See more about SPRING here. Home - Spring Accelerator. Tragic Design. GoSun Stove: Solar Cooker & Solar Oven. Technology_and_disability_design_lacks_the_imagination_to_make_the_world. Facebook Shares Its Design Secrets in the Apple App Store. On meta-design and algorithmic design systems. Can Touch · 3D-печать детского протеза на принтере. MESH: Creative DIY Kit for the Connected Life | Indiegogo. Makers Print Out Durable, Custom Prosthetic Hands For Needy Kids.
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