Monthly Archives: July 2009
Birth 2 business by IDEO
A thoughtful video by IDEO on how we are introduced to new experiences and how they affect us. Birth 2 Business from IDEO on Vimeo.
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Experience design languages
Experience design languages View more documents from whatidiscover. Presentation on experience design languages by Shelley Evenson via Slideshare.net
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Dan Saffer – Attention Awareness for Interaction Designers 2009
Some relevant thoughts from Dan Saffer via theInteraction Design Association on Vimeo.
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Papershow by Dan Roam
During the time I was working in Anoto, Papershow was a proactive, innovative initiative by my client Papeteries Hamelin at the time. It was a challenge to bring Hamelin’s vision into reality, but eventually they did. I am now pleased … Continue reading
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IDEO Human centred design toolkit
IDEO’s open source human centered design toolkit is a good source of inspiration. It will be a help for NGOs and social entrepreneurs to design and implement innovative, customer-centric solutions to specific design challenges for global communities in need via … Continue reading
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Twitter Venn diagram
Found an interesting visualisation tool at neoformix today. It allows you to visualise the relationship between different twitter search terms, in the form of a Venn diagram.
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I miss my pencil – Book by IDEO
When Tim Brown was the the V&A last month, he mentioned the book “I miss by pencil” by Martin Bone and Kara Johnson of IDEO, which caught my attention. Although, I have just ordered the book and not yet had … Continue reading
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Is usability obsolete?
The new issue of Interactions just came out, but I am still browsing through the May + June issue. Is usability obsolete? is another relevant and interesting article by Katie Minardo Scott. In this article Katie Minardo Scott presents a … Continue reading
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A wider perspective on designers' role
In the may+june 2009 issue of interactions Elaine Ann writes an interesting article on the wider role of designers, illustrating it with a large scale case study labelled What’s Design Got to Do with the World Financial Crisis? I don’t … Continue reading
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What is design thinking?
Design thinking may still be a somewhat fuzzy term in business, but the design community has grown increasingly fond of Dan Saffer – o danny boy Summarises design thinking into- Focus on customers/users- Finding alternatives (multiple solutions)- Ideation and prototyping- … Continue reading