Donnerstag, 12. August 2010

Service Design: Key Methods and Strategies

Over the last few decades, the economy has shifted dramatically from products to services. More-informed, demanding, and time-scarce consumers are looking for companies that can help make their lives easier, more productive, and more enjoyable. The decisions we make, the brands we are loyal to, the way we spend our time and money are mostly based on the services we receive. As a result, even traditional product-based companies are now offering a broad spectrum of value-added services.


Seminar - Service Design: Key Methods and Strategies

Engineers Turn Robot Arm into F1 Ferrari Simulator

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, in Tübingen, Germany, transformed an industrial robot arm into a Formula 1 simulator.

Google Gesture Search

You may already be familiar with Gesture Search, our Android app from Google Labs that lets you search by writing out characters on the touchscreen of your device. Today we’re happy to announce a new version, Gesture Search 1.2, which includes a new motion gesture. By doing a “double flip”, or flipping your phone away and then back, you can start Gesture Search at any time.


via: Flipping for Gesture Search - Official Google Mobile Blog

Mittwoch, 11. August 2010

Attractive Interface Design

The Four Seasons Visualized

The Four Seasons Visualized on Datavisualization.ch: "Recently I’ve spotted a beautifully designed study of The Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi. It’s the work by Laia Clos’ studio mot.

lesquatrestacions is a graphic information system for visualizing the lead violin of Vivaldi’s masterpiece. The work consists of four posters, a set of stamps and the documentation of the system."

Dienstag, 10. August 2010

8 Principles of Information Architecture


#1 Treat content as objects
#2 Keep in mind the paradox of choice
#3 Use progressive disclosure
#4 Give exemplars
#5 Install multiple front doors
#6 Grow
#7 Enable multiple classification schemes
#8 Open navigation by function.

Mittwoch, 4. August 2010

3D motion capture

SIGGRAPH 2010: Organic Motion from Core77 on Vimeo.

Die Suche als Verführerin

Search Patterns (Butterfly Book) von Peter Morville;
O’Reilly Media; Auflage 1 (17. Februar 2010)
Read more: Die Suche als Verführerin / Sonja Quirmbach

Dienstag, 3. August 2010

Montag, 2. August 2010

Design for Conversion Cologne



DFC Cologne
Club Bahnhof Ehrenfeld
23. Semptember 2010

User Experience Design at Mozilla

Welcome to my blog. I'm a Principal Designer on Firefox, helping to develop its interactive design, visual design, and overall vision. On this blog you can find information about many of the user facing features being developed for future versions of Firefox.

Alex Faaborg

jQuery UI

jQuery UI Development & Planning Wiki / Mobile

Tab Candy in Firefox

An Introduction to Firefox's Tab Candy from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.


Tab Candy: Making Firefox Tabs Sweet - Aza on Design

Freitag, 30. Juli 2010

CSS3 Generator

CSS3 Generator
Handy tool that spits out the syntax and associated vendor-prefixed CSS3 for properties like border-radius, box-shadow, multi-column layout and more. Especially helpful are the supported browsers icons with pop-up version numbers for each property.

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What you need to know about Eye Tracking

Mittwoch, 28. Juli 2010

CopyPasteCharacter.com

CopyPasteCharacter.com

Grooveshark Mobile Music

Grooveshark Mobile Music: Available Phones: "You already do everything on your phone—now make it even more personal. Choose the phone you use, then choose from millions of songs to play instantly. Yeah, there's an app for that."

Mittwoch, 21. Juli 2010