The other day while waiting on my train back from work (Amsterdam > Maarssen) I noticed a girl with a fold-able bike. While a fold-able bike is a pretty common thing in modern life — this particular situation caught my eye.
Tag "Design"
A trademark of American product-design I almost dare call it. Observing how people really use or abuse products is what gave IDEO and alike their reason of existence. The book from IDEO designer Jane Fulton Suri called Thoughtless Act? Observations on Intuitive Design is from 2005 but still very relevant. The book is a collection of observations on how people use products in unimagined ways.
Just now I’ve found this Flickr-pool which is the crowdsourced version of the book. It contains numerous thoughtless acts found all over the world. Enjoy the pictures and if you own a smartphone start collecting yourself. It trains your observation skills plus it is often great fun!
Read MoreAn interesting video (~70 minutes) from MIX09 on the design process of the desktop of Windows 7. Highly recommended video if you are into UX or related fields. Microsoft over the last years has built-up a very strong UX-team and coupled it with scientific research. Lets see where it leads them.
Note: This video uses Silverlight, but you can also download it as MP4
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Definition: These are the “shadow forms” of earlier materials or designs, which survive into later structures or artifacts.
So:
One “dials” a phone that has nothing but buttons […]
source: http://www.nous.org.uk/skiamorph.html
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