Category Archives: Concept Projects

We’ve been been digging deep into the industrial design and mechanical engineering for the teapot. Continue reading Kicker Tea Project: Industrial Design Refinement and Mechanical Engineering >>

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As consultants who specialize in new technology, a lot of our work is under NDA, so every once in a while, we do a project just for ourselves, to strut. (Last year it was the Kicker Conference Phone.) This time, we wanted to design a product for the home and we focused on an activity many of us enjoy: tea drinking. Continue reading Kicker Tea Project: Introduction >>

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Kicker Studio participated in a Core77 1 Hour Design Challenge on The Future of Digital Reading. Here’s our entries. Continue reading Concept Project: The Future of Digital Reading >>

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I started thinking about what a phone designed especially for my father might be like. I’ve often thought it would be fun to design something specifically for my dad. He’s differently-abled then most men his age, because he has progressive MS. Continue reading My Dad's New Phone >>

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With the launch of HP’s TouchSmart and TX2 computers, I’m occasionally asked what a purely touchscreen system would be like for a desktop. (It’s rumored that Jeff Han of Perceptive Pixel is currently working on one, and of course, the iPhone, Instinct, Dare, et al have touchscreen OSes for mobile.) With the publication of my book Designing Gestural Interfaces last week, I thought I would discuss what some desktop concepts could be like. Continue reading Concept: Desktop Touchscreen System >>

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