"Design Newsletter" entries
The 3 best experience design things we saw this week – April 3, 2015
Designing for discomfort, redesigning death, and a civic-human interface.
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Designed for discomfort
An elevator delivers you one floor below the floor you requested. A keyholder drops your bike lock key to the ground when you grab your car keys. A lampshade gradually closes unless you to touch it to retain illumination. These are not design flaws; they’re just a few examples of products designed to encourage behavior change.
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The 3 best experience design things we saw this week – March 27, 2015
John Maeda's top 5, Josh Clark's wise words, and Tim O'Reilly on the underestimated impact of the IoT.
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John Maeda’s top 5
When former RISD president John Maeda, now design partner at VC firm Kleiner Perkins, was asked to name 5 things he can’t live without, his list didn’t include many “things.” Declaring himself a “post-possessionista,” he explains why some of his favorite things are more concept than object.
Source: Cropped image by Steven Depolo on Flickr
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The 3 best experience design things we saw this week – March 20, 2015
UX evolution, tooting horns, and a rambunctious rant.
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The evolution of UX
From da Vinci to Dreyfuss to Disney to Donald Norman, interactions between humans and technology have marked each key milestone in the longer-than-you-think history of user experience design. Here’s how UX design’s past sheds light on its future.
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Experience Design Links and Fodder: March 13, 2015
10 thoughts for all designers, wise words from Gemma Curtain, and open source surgery.
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Top ten
“Like” is not a design word. Choose your battles. There is no perfect design. A pragmatic designer shares his memo to self with 10 thoughts that all designers should consider.
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Experience Design Links and Fodder: February 13, 2015
Mentor relationships; "learninghomes"; and building cross-disciplinary, collaborative teams.
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Are you my mentor?
Digital product designer Lane Halley shares 7 Tips for Finding Your Perfect UX Mentor, and she describes how to establish a productive relationship once you’ve found one. Here’s how to bring that special someone into your life.
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Experience Design Links and Fodder: February 6, 2015
On-demand focus groups; the bond between ux, data, and design
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Focus groups on demand
User experience start-up UserTesting has modernized the old-fashioned focus group: “it runs an online panel of more than one million testers…who can test products and other company materials on demand.” Current clients include the likes of Google, Facebook, Home Depot, Verizon Wireless, and Amazon — UserTesting just might be onto something.
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