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CopenhagenChair

Nine Chairs Designed to Save the World

In advance of the Copenhagen climate summit, dozens of young designers produce chairs meant to ease the negotiation process.READ»

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LITL   |  12 comments

Litl Video Tour: A Design Miracle, a Challenging Sell

The company's CEO offers a video tour of a computer designed for the way we live now.READ»

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How I Got My Interaction On

Think about interactivity as a way to combine digital technology with real-life experience to make the real world better. But the secret is to blur the boundary between the real and the virtual.READ»

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Introducing Guest Blogger Rob Tannen: Your Hands Are in Good Hands

As director of user research and interaction design Bresslergroup, Rob Tannen is responsible for making sure that power tools, medical equipment, even touchscreen kiosks fit our hands like proverbial gloves.READ»

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Creating Virtual Interfaces for Physical People

Interaction designers have long been restricted to an input vocabulary of buttons and pointers. Now they're gaining a complex and dynamic palette limited only by the physical capabilities of the human body.READ»

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Duo Visualizes Radio Waves, Helping Designers Apply RFID Technology to Products

An experimental LED array reveals the electromagnetic fields surrounding an RFID chip.READ»

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Multi-Touch Interface Concept Blows Away Touchscreens

An intriguing graphic user interface that has all of the benefits of multi-touch, but none of the annoyance of touchscreens.READ»

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"Humanthesizer" Turns Bodies Into Electric Instruments

Sounds like a gimmick, right? Watch this video and try not to be charmed.READ»

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Holograms That You Can Touch and Feel

This week at SIGGRAPH, a Japanese professor unveils his newest invention, combining holograms and ultrasound technology.READ»

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Five To-Die-For Augmented Reality Shopping Apps

Change how you buy--and how you find the places you shop with an emerging array of programs that will remake everything from roaming the mall to impulse buying.READ»

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Sputnik Observatory: A Repository That Shows How Big Ideas Are Connected

A new site gathers insights from today's great thinkers, and links them up, so you can choose your adventure.READ»

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The Interfaces Aboard the New Starship Enterprise

OOOii designed the (fictional) interfaces in Star Trek and Minority Report. Here's a 360-degree tour of their latest workREAD»

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Kawasaki Develops Night Vision Helmet Mount for Its Flagship Motorcycle

Patent documents reveal futuristic new technology that might be revealed this fall.READ»

Motorola

Motorola Envisions the Cellphone of the Future

Hyper futuristic cellphone concepts are usually the province of student competitions. But Motorola tasked designers from its offices around the world to create a visionary cellphone replacement, and here are the results. As ...READ»

Lightswitch

The Puzzle Switch and Five Other Low-Tech Designs That Increase Energy Awareness

Our electricity use is invisible, so we consume it without much thought. That's a problem, and two Swedish designers are tackling it with clever, low-tech designs meant to make us a bit more conscious of the energy we use. They're ...READ»

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Highlights From the PSFK Conference [video]

The PSFK Conference just wrapped last month in New York, and a couple of standout talks have made their way to the web. One poses the question: Is a woman in romantic love with the Berlin Wall really so different from you and me? ...READ»

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MAPS   |  12 comments

An Ingenious Hybrid Map: Why Didn't Garmin Think of This?

Bold new concepts in mapping don't come along often, but London-based graphic designers Jack Schulze and Matt Webb may have invented one, with the "Here and There" map, which blends both a 3-D, first-person view and a bird's-eye view.READ»

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Designing in Real Time for a Participation Economy

Everyone's (or no one's) favorite redesigned brands, Tropicana and Facebook, came up yet again at this weekend's Y Conference as Liz Danzico, chair of the new Interaction Design MFA program at the School of Visual Arts, focused on ...READ»

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How Much Does a Decent Designer Make? (UPDATED)

Coroflot, a job-listing site for designers, has published the results of its 2008 salary survey. It confirms, once again, that design is pretty good work if you can get it. Top flight graphic designers, interaction designers, and ...READ»

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The New York Times's Latest Prototype: Skimming

Newspapers may be dying, but The New York Times has been admirably farsighted in trying to remake the medium. The company's recent experiments have included remarkable online info graphics and the underappreciated but brilliant ...READ»

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What Will Trigger the Next Paradigm Shift in Computer Design?

According to several designers, it's going to be cloud computing: Specifically, the rumored introduction of Google's G-Drive, sometime this year. The G-Drive promises to make your hard drive obsolete, providing web storage for all ...READ»

All Time Favorites: Why is it Windows 7 - not Windows 10?

Windows 7 is in the news again. It was a month ago that I first had the question on why Windows is still in it's infancy years whereas Mac OS has entered the teenage period quite some time ago. My arithmetic was - and I posed the ...READ»

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Move Beyond the Gestural Interface... Give Your Phone the Finger

Multi-touch, gestural interfaces are the new black. And for the next four to five years, they're the immediate future of our ever-evolving human/computer interactions. But for us designers, I'd like to project a little further into ...READ»

& the Red Fez

& the Red Fez is a stream of ideas and inspirations, ranging from international marketing to IT - mixed with some completely unrelated topics of personal interest. Make sure to never miss an issue by subscribing to ...READ»

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User Centered Design Agile Manifesto

Can user interface designers make a manifesto to dove tail with the developers Agile Manifesto? Here is my attempt: Activity Centered Techniques for Agile Design 1) Intimacy of stories over iteration management 2) ...READ»

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