I wish for everyone to help create a strong, sustainable movement to educate every child about food, inspire families to cook again and empower people everywhere to fight obesityJamie Oliver I am pleased to see that Jamie Oliver has reached TED, or rather that his messaged has reached TED. His passion for transforming food consumption is contagious and highly relevant. It has taken me personally a long time...

[column width="24%" padding="1%"] [/column] [column width="24%" padding="1%"] The other day, Hartmut Esslinger’s book “A fine line” finally dropped in my mailbox. Its green cover with subtle Wega inspired dots instantly makes you want to break open the book and eagerly rush through the pages. I will not review his book yet, as I still have a few chapters to finish, except to say, it is a refreshingly...

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.

Experience design languages View more documents from whatidiscover. Presentation on experience design languages by Shelley Evenson via Slideshare.net

Some relevant thoughts from Dan Saffer via theInteraction Design Association on Vimeo.

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 to see that the product is reaching out to a broader market and I especially look forward to see how Dan Roam will make use of it at BayCHI. image courtesy of Thomas Rockstar

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 three simple steps: Hear, Create, Deliver.

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.

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 a chance to read it, this is how the book is described on the I miss my pencil website. “The book attempts to communicate what designers sometimes think and talk about during the design process...

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 fresh perspective on usability and the future. Current usability consultants are facing some problems; The basics are insufficient – Clients understand the basics and...