Monthly Archives: November 2010

Many of the projects we do at Kicker involve new technologies, so I thought I’d put some thoughts down about how to do that and how to think about those kinds of projects.

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Part XI in an ongoing series of Why Products Suck (and what we can do about it).

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Diagrams that changed the world http://is.gd/hAOdE # TiVo Premiere iPad app http://tivo.com/ipad (via @tivodesign) # What should an iPad newspaper look like? http://is.gd/hB2VD # Intel's kitchen computer concept http://bit.ly/92fUcC It's been tried before http://bit.ly/c4ga7K http://bit.ly/doE1zP (via @mikekuniavsky) # On Boxee, TED channel appears next to YouPorn on TV menu. Interesting choice. http://yfrog.com/5njrnmj (via @yvesbehar) # [...]

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Time Mag's "50 best inventions of 2010." Kickstarter gets a nod. Also…jetpacks. http://bit.ly/cUiN7r (via @kimgoodwin) # Our client @janepyle's projects discussed in MIT Technology Review: Apps that Deliver a Competitive Edge http://bit.ly/cjfEz0 # Very little difference in multi-touch gesture use around the world, or between novices and experts http://is.gd/h8QWy (HT @touch_ui) # Apps On: post-it [...]

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Microsoft’s Kinect (and the subsequent awesome hacks) has raised the rallying cry of “Where’s my Minority Report interface?” Trust me when I say: you don’t really want one.

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Singing Fingers – great use of a touch UI for making sound visible. http://bit.ly/cgCGVh (via @chadt) # http://slowhunch.com/ is a new open source web app and "innovation community" inspired by Steven Johnson's book Where Good Ideas Come From. # Roman Swiss Army Knife A.D. 201 – A.D. 300 http://ow.ly/36JpM (via @williamlidwell @MrAlanCooper) # Add buttons [...]

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Let’s say there are two interaction designers, and let’s assume they work in same medium. Online, let’s say, just for the sake of argument. You know their work; you’ve seen other products they’ve launched. They are both competent designers, at the top of their craft. Now imagine I pointed you to two new web apps that these two designers had done (separately). Could you tell which interaction designer had done which? Chances are, no you could not. Unlike other design disciplines, style is a subtle thing in interaction design.

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.@egoodman will be speaking at BayCHI next Tue about her field research on ubicomp and IxD. We were some of her subjects! http://is.gd/gAfh7 # Rumored Near-Field Communication chip in iPhone 5 will enable some interesting new interactions http://is.gd/gAj1d # 8pen: New method of writing on small devices http://www.the8pen.com/ # RT @driftlab_scott Just saw the Sony [...]

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I went through two years of studio critiques while getting my Master’s degree in design, and have been through dozens of them in the five years since then, but I can honestly say I’ve learned more about how to appropriately give design criticism from Tim Gunn, one of the hosts of the US television show Project Runway.

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