Monthly Archives: December 2009

We'll have to check these out at CES: Android-based tablets coming http://is.gd/5wgVX # "The next generation of Ford's SYNC-enabled vehicles will…be rolling WiFi hotspots." http://is.gd/5wi0s # Best and worst identity redesigns of 2009 http://bit.ly/5cjyaU (via @Typophile @ryfernandez) # It's apparently a radical thought to think about patients with new medical care technology: http://is.gd/5xrKe # How [...]

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When I think back over the past year, and especially looking forward to 2010, one voice echoes in my head, that of Roy Schneider in Jaws: “We’re gonna need a bigger boat.”

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Kicker mentions in the press for December 2009.

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Note Taker Turns Your iPhone into an Endless Notepad | Smarterware http://bit.ly/8mn3EV (via @johnnyholland) # FUSE UI from Synaptics: Multitouch + Haptics + 3D + Proximity Sensing + Force, Grip http://is.gd/5nNAv # After 55 Years in Print, Design Icon I.D. Magazine Folds http://bit.ly/5Y9sG3 /via @cwodtke # New Steve Krug book is out: "Rocket Surgery Made [...]

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Our colleagues Matt Jones and Jack Schulze at BERG have produced concept videos of a future digital magazine reading device for Bonnier R&D. Kicker Studio is working on expanding their concepts into a robust, interactive prototype over the next several months.

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Radial Menus on Handheld Devices http://is.gd/5fvSB # "Millions of consumers…[hope to] acquir[e] the latest, and therefore most desirable, personal device." http://is.gd/5fw0E # The Boxee Box: What The Hell Were They Thinking? http://is.gd/5g0Iz # RCA student radically improves the UK plug. Very clever: http://j.mp/7aFeCH (via @swestbrook @jasonsantamaria @ebacon) # Software that knows who you are, where [...]

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It’s that time of year when magazines and pundits start putting together their Best of Year lists. Amateur pundits that we are, we decided to do one for the blogs we liked.

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Cool interactive map of Ebay transactions on Black Friday 2009 http://www.ebayholiday.com/black-friday # Boxes and Arrows interviews Kicker principal Jennifer Bove about the Interaction10 conference http://bit.ly/7NEJZ8 # Map of the Design Landscape (pdf) http://files.me.com/jackmoffett/5nm3oo # Resources for building a case for design: http://www.peterthomsonondesign.blogspot.com (via @mrettig) # Adobe's ubicomp vision of the future: http://www.openscreenproject.org/ (via @mikekuniavsky) # [...]

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As this is the season of lists and of gift giving, I thought I would put together the top ten books I thought every designer of interactive products should have in their library.

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