#ux iota: Every consider friending your house on Facebook? You just might one day soon.
Forget about the internet of everything, are you ready for the social network of everything? via youtube.com
The future is both here and widely distributed. Unfortunately.
Title: The Astounding World of the Future Context: You can’t predict the future, you can only make it. And according to this vision, we’ve certainly made “something” of our future… Synopsis: Ever see one of those olde tyme newsreels that … Continued
#ux iota: Designing for a typical person may not be as straightforward as you think.
The world’s most typical person is not typically who you’d expect. via youtube.com
#ux iota: Procrastination is watching this video instead of getting your work done.
Have 4:16 to spare? If you don’t then this video is most assuredly for you. via youtube.com
#ux iota: Sick burn: “You couldn’t draw a conclusion.” Comeback: “Thanks to Microsoft, now I can.”
Never let an inability to draw prevent you from drawing something cool. via youtube.com
Failure is the secret to success. True story.
Title: Failure: The Secret to Success Context: Success does not happen without failure. Period. Synopsis: If you can’t learn from your mistakes, you can’t learn. If you are afraid of making mistakes, you can’t succeed. One of the better corporate … Continued
#ux iota: I’m in ur robot waching ur internetz.
Why even bother showing up to work when you can just have your robot avatar do it for you? via youtube.com
Microsoft’s vision of the future. (Hint: Invest heavily in projection technology)
Title: Touching, waving at and talking to the future with Microsoft Context: Microsoft is making cool stuff too? Who knew? Synopsis: A whirlwind (PR fluff/news report) tour of Microsoft’s skunkworks where they are building lots of things that use gestural … Continued
#ux iota: 3D PRINTER WANT!
Conor Houghton, the genius behind Ignite Dublin brought this to Ignite Dublin #6 last night. I wonder if you can use this to make a copy of itself? via youtube.com
“Make it rain” my UX brothers and sisters!
Title: The ROI of User Experience Context: How much money can good UX design make your company? A bazillion-trillion-quadrillion dollars*! (*Estimate only. Your results may vary.) Synopsis: Why keep us UX people around? If you mean besides our dashing good … Continued
What a coincidence! I love UX design too!
Title: ILUVUXDESIGN Context: It’s like a commercial just for us. Synopsis: Quick and cuddly animation that should make you happy to be a UX designer. As if you weren’t already. I’ll be showing this to my parents in the hope … Continued
The future is just like today…except more futuryish.
Title: Microsoft’s Vision of the Future Context: Be careful what you wish for in the future. You just might get it. Synopsis: What might the future look like? Who the hell knows? It’s impossible to predict but that doesn’t stop … Continued
With a phone like that, who needs brains?
Title: Product Testing Institute – Models Context: Yup. These are your users. Synopsis: Sometimes it is hard to account for the wide range of user abilities for which we have to account. This disparity in techni…technolo…tenchol…tech-savvitudeness makes our jobs even … Continued
You could do worse than work for IDEO.
Title: ABC Nightline – IDEO Shopping Cart Context: What the redesign process of an everyday object can – and probably should – look like. Synopsis: This Nightline special must be over a decade old but it is still relevant from … Continued
Why “work” the noun and “work” the verb are oftentimes incompatible.
Title: Why work doesn’t happen at work Context: Great TEDx talk by Jason Fried, co-founder of 37signals who explains why “work” the place and “work” the set of tasks we get paid to accomplish are sometimes mutually exclusive. Synopsis: Want … Continued