Monthly Archives: January 2009

One question that often gets asked, both at my talks and on projects, is how many gestures can a user reasonably be asked to remember in order to control a system? Continue reading How Many Gestures Can Users Remember? >>

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I’m starting a revision of my book Designing for Interaction. It’s about three years old now, and lots of things, including my own perspective on interaction design, have changed in the four years since I started writing it. (Just as one example, touchscreens and interactive gestures weren’t really mentioned in the earlier at all.)

One… Continue reading Dissolving Service Design >>

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• “Laptops, not mobile phones, are the means to liberate the developing world”: http://icanhaz.com/laptopsnotmobiles What about netbooks? #
• CrunchPad prototype needs some better industrial design. That white plastic rim is going to get filthy. http://icanhaz.com/crunchpad #
• Is the “Experience Economy” contracting towards irrelevance? http://tinyurl.com/7b7yp5 #

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“Keep It Simple, Stupid” (pdf) in Barclays 360 #4: “We’re wired for direct manipulation of objects,” says Dan Saffer, an interaction designer based in San Francisco and the author of Designing for Interaction (£28.99, Peachpit Press). “Interactive gestures return physicality to computational tasks. While they aren’t necessarily less complex, they certainly feel more natural.” Continue reading January 2009 Kicker Press >>

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Many things can be taught via distance learning: accounting, literature, programming, some of the sciences. But design isn’t one of them. Continue reading Remote Design Education >>

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• Ergonomics for Interaction Designers: http://tinyurl.com/72s5n7 #
• http://www.designpolicy.org/ Ten design policy proposals for the U.S.’s economic competitiveness and democratic governance #
• http://tinyurl.com/8jekay #
• Teaser: http://tinyurl.com/8pelbp #
• “Think twice, cut once.” Tom Armitage on Second Order Effects: http://tinyurl.com/86utq5 #
• Microscopic

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I just saw the announcement for Samsung’s new ST10, a 9 mega pixel camera with haptic feedback and the ability to do facial recognition. Continue reading Integrating Tagging and Creation >>

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