Monthly Archives: March 2009

It’s of course cliche to use Apple as an example of good design, but I’m going to do it anyway. In Designing for Interaction, one of the characteristics of good interaction design I called out was clever. Clever design anticipates users’ needs and designs a solution for it before the user even knows it is an issue. One tiny detail in the iPhone’s alarm clock illustrates this perfectly.

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Analysis of Mini Cooper’s dashboard usability: http://tinyurl.com/dlkqua # “The world is revealed to be full of lifeless objects awaiting animation.” http://icanhaz.com/kineticdesign # Use your mad internet skillz to help some nonprofits on April 26 http://tinyurl.com/27k347 # “Design is a way of walking over the landscape of possible worlds.” http://tinyurl.com/bt6cqe # “The technology to realize the [...]

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One of the great things about working at a company with both interaction and industrial designers is that when collaboratively designing a device, you have better control over where bits of its functionality are located: in the hardware or the software. At Kicker, we call the activity of figuring out where a feature “lives” Functional Cartography.

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Even though we’re all currently interested in what’s inside Steve’s torso, Inside Steve’s Brain
is a pretty good examination of the work life of Steve Jobs. It’s a quick, enjoyable read, with lots of juicy Apple tidbits.

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A great website if you are looking to practice your drawing skills. Cheaper than hiring a live model. http://www.posemaniacs.com/ # Jennifer is interviewed in a new podcast: “What makes great service design” http://is.gd/kzi4 # Guten tag! And Guten Touch: http://nuigroup.com/log/guten_touch/ # John Stewart and Jeff Bezos discuss the Kindle 2, and John Stewart’s not buying [...]

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Mentions of Kicker or Kickers in the press in February 2009.

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