CATALOGING THE ART AND SCIENCE OF USER EXPERIENCE DESIGN
Title: No Innovator’s Dilemma Here: In Praise of Failure Context: If success was easy, everyone would have invented a better vacuum cleaner that doesn’t suck by now. Wait. What? Synopsis: James Dyson, inventor extraordinaire, talks about the inextricable link between … Continued
Never forget from whence we came. via youtube.com
Forget about the internet of everything, are you ready for the social network of everything? via youtube.com
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
The world’s most typical person is not typically who you’d expect. via youtube.com
Have 4:16 to spare? If you don’t then this video is most assuredly for you. via youtube.com
Never let an inability to draw prevent you from drawing something cool. via youtube.com
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
Why even bother showing up to work when you can just have your robot avatar do it for you? via youtube.com
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
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
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
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
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
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