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Every January, over 140,000 people converge on Las Vegas for the Consumer Electronics Show. While CES caters to the suppliers, buyers, and technology geeks, there is still plenty of fun to be had for a designer like me. After four years of attending, I finally discovered the best ways to make the most of my [...]

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We are excited to give you a sneak peek at our latest project, a gesture-controlled movie browser platform developed with Omek Interactive for Jinni, a movie genome company, which will be debuting at CES on January 10, 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada. When Omek approached us to create a gestural interface for Jinni, we took [...]

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GOOD and the City of SF challenged Kicker Studio to make use of the abundance of data feeds available through the SF Department of Technology. We developed a solution to help people make better transportation choices. Here is the video of Jody’s presentation on ForaTV.   Please note: we were misinformed about the availability of [...]

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Kicker Studio marked our 3rd Anniversary on August 8, 2011. To celebrate, we hosted the Second Annual Device Design Day at the San Francisco Art Institute, Jody’s alma matter. It was a great success thanks to inspiring speakers and involved attendees. Couldn’t make it? Don’t worry, we’ve posted videos of the talks for you to [...]

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We’re very pleased to announce the second Device Design Day, to be held August 5, in San Francisco.

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We’re very pleased to announce Device Design Day: a one-day conference for professionals who design consumer electronics, appliances, mobile devices, and objects with embedded technology.

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This weekend Kicker Studio was invited to participate as expert advisors at the first Hacks/Hackers Unite! weekend workshop at KQED, where 80 journalists and hackers got together to design and build news applications for the iPad.  I attended the event, giving a short kick-off presentation on user experience  considerations when designing applications for an iPad.  [...]

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We’re at Interaction10, the annual interaction design conference, sponsored by the Interaction Design Association. This year, it’s a bit of a family affair as all three of the Kicker principals are involved.

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Last Wednesday night I had the honor of attending Fast Company’s Masters of Design Celebration in New York City, where our Kicker Studio Conference Phone was on display as part of the Expert Design Bloggers’ Project Gallery. Our phone was in great company alongside projects from RKS, Ammunition, Lunar, and Smart Design, all perched on [...]

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I’ve just returned from Salone del Mobile in Milan, where I introduced Kicker Studio in a presentation I gave last Thursday. I took a million photos of all the cool designy fair, which I *tried* to narrow down to just few. Here are the pictorial highlights of the work I saw, from Established & Sons, [...]

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