Product Design

02 Dec 2008 1153H

From Seattle IxDA

Great talk by Daniel Cook about interaction design and games:
Video: Microsoft Office Labs & Engineering Excellence IxDA Event Part I Daniel Cook

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27 Nov 2008 1617H

Damn you Steve Jobs

Now it is almost December and I am not only married but the owner of an AppleTV and an iPhone from which I am now blogging. All things I didn’t think would happen this year. Life comes at you fast.

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21 Nov 2008 0734H

Big change ahead

When I first started as a designer in this field about 12 years ago, one of the first things I remember wanting to design was the information displays on medical devices. It looks like I will finally get my chance!
After a few grueling months of interviewing and constantly running into jobs being placed on hold, [...]

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09 Sep 2008 1235H

Initial reactions to the Let’s Rock event

• Slightly worried at how thin the Man has gotten but he did (sic?) have pancreatic cancer, not exactly easy to shake off as far as cancers go. . .
• NBC to return to iTunes. Shocker. So what happens to Hulu? Are they learning from their Olympic success and seeing how far the rabbit hole [...]

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08 Sep 2008 1150H

E-ink on flexible plastic substrate

The possibilities are intriguing. So what about color e-ink?

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17 Aug 2008 0850H

Effective design problem solving

By way of Noise Between Stations, there’s a line in this work, my emphasis added, by Nigel Cross’s Expertise in Design:
Expert designers appear to be ‘ill-behaved’ problem solvers, especially in terms of the time and attention they spend on defining the problem. However, this seems to be appropriate behaviour, since some studies have suggested that [...]

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10 Aug 2008 0826H

Gap goes back to basics

From BusinessWeek:
“For several years, Gap, under former Disney (DIS) executive Paul Pressler, relied heavily on focus groups and spent little time in the stores. Early on, Gap North American President Marka Hansen encouraged Robinson to have breakfast with store managers at Gap’s flagship on 34th Street in New York City. As he scribbled furiously in [...]

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07 Aug 2008 1216H

Research driving UX projects

We’re in the production stream of a project now, and I’m looking back on an affinity diagram I put together after we’d had a group of about four or five users tell us their loves and hates (such strong words, I know) about a particular online service we offer. Hadn’t looked at it in a [...]

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31 Jul 2008 0822H

Personas for shopping malls?

Why yes. In what is being scored as a landmark event by the NYT (rather late post) at the beginning of July, real estate developers have consulted their targeted users in planning commercial real estate:
Terry Montesi, the company’s chief executive, first hired two female retail consultants: Claudia A. Sagan and J’Amy Owens. But Trademark also [...]

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16 Jul 2008 0814H

Design Can Change; Interaction Design Supporting Sustainability

Maybe you all have seen this site, Design Can Change, from SmashLab in Vancouver, but I just tripped over it the other day. It’s a good read, and I think we’re all looking at ways to make changes as we can in the work we do.
A new society will require all kinds of people, [...]

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