CATALOGING THE ART AND SCIENCE OF USER EXPERIENCE DESIGN
How—or more pertinently: why—do we continue to distinguish so clearly between digital and the physical world? Mail traditionally has form and substance and gravitas so maybe we should concentrate more on that then the “e”… via brendandawes.com
Title: Design isn’t just for consumer goods, your enterprise software needs it too Context: The business of enterprise software used to be business, but it is rapidly becoming design. Synopsis: Keen IO CEO talks about the business critical impact design … Continued
Animated breeze through some core design principles. Learn as much as is humanly possible about design in less than a minute through the power of animation. via vimeo.com
Calling yourself a storyteller doesn’t make it so. And the truth is, telling a story about how you are a storyteller is often a work of fiction. via vimeo.com
Know those big, chunky, UK electric plugs? Apparently they designed a heck of a lot of safety features into those 3-pronged-foot-daggers-in-the-night. Except for the whole foot-dagger thing. via youtube.com
Title: Telling stories about screens for screens Context: Telling people about your software. One story at a time. Synopsis: If someone were to ask you to tell them about the software that you designed what would you say? Would you … Continued
Title: Superheroes & Villains in Design Context: The two words most detrimental to great design are “Yes, but…” Synopsis: I’m not really sure why but some of mankind’s greatest triumphs and most tragic failures seem to happen in the design … Continued
In order to design the best baby bottle, it helps to first understand babies. A surprisingly novel approach. via vimeo.com
Title: How Designers Destroyed the World Context: There is an ethical component to design that often gets lost in the shuffle of the day-to-day business of it. Synopsis: Somewhere in the reptilian recesses of our designer brain we possess the … Continued
Title: Cognitive Science and Design Context: How Google hacks your brain’s software to make better UIs. Synopsis: As user experience designers we tend to abstract our target users into aggregate personas in an attempt to try and understand their motivations … Continued
Best Bit: “Sometimes the best way through the fog, is through the fog.” via vimeo.com
Title: Doodlers, unite! Context: It’s called visual and emotional thinking. Look into it. Or doodle it. Whichever. Synopsis: Of all the great and underrated things in life that have somehow been unfairly tagged as degenerative to the human condition (I’m … Continued
Title: Olympics: User Experience and Design Context: Building a superior user experience for the world’s biggest, most diverse spectator event. Synopsis: With dozens of sports, hundreds of events, thousands of participating athletes, an even greater number of hours of live … Continued
Maybe it’s not the pen that moves, but rather the rest of the world underneath it… via vimeo.com
