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experience maps and mood boards

starting work today on an experience map for the Loupe project:
taking a look at the designed experience for finance apps, I wondered what it might be like to try learn accounting principles online. So I started looking. wow.
There’s a such a difference between the professional view and the mass users view. and, imho they’re both [...]

charmr – video prototype

Charmr: A Design Concept for Diabetes Management Devices
has a cool video prototype of an experience design for a new diabetes management device from adaptive path.
I like the way they’ve used stills to communicate the message, so much easier to produce, and they’ve spent time on the voice over. It tells a great stry, and breaks [...]

Service design symposium videos online

The videos of three presentations from Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design’s symposium on service design are now online:

Designing Services: Past, Present and Future (by Bill Hollins)
Designing Services (by Bill Moggridge)
Concept Design (by Jørgen Rosted)

(via experientia)

Tags: service, design, video

vuvox mix

just made a new mix called skysaw at vuvox…

UI Design Patterns on Squidoo

UI Design Patterns on Squidoo says:
Unfortunately, good design pattern libraries can be hard to find. I created this lens out of desperation. I’d like to collate the links into one place for my own reference — and hope you will find the list useful as well.

Max Kiesler – designDemo

Max Kiesler – designDemo is a collection of intersting web 2.0 design patterns
via experiencedesign

home joule

woah – this is a very cool idea: use the crowd to manage the grid
Via gizmodo
NYC’s power grid is always flexing under varying loads and prices. What’s insane is that no one’s tried to game that data to live green while saving a few bucks.
This Ambient device uses that same data, glowing red when its [...]

Numenta

About Numenta – numenta.com
Founded in 2005, Numenta is developing a new type of computer memory system modeled after the human neocortex. The applications of this technology are broad and can be applied to solve problems in computer vision, artificial intelligence, robotics and machine learning. The Numenta technology, called Hierarchical Temporal Memory (HTM), is based on [...]

designing for creative (mis)understanding

so – after a great closing keynote to ozchi this year I started thinking about the great work Bill Gaver had just presented: I’ve been interested for quite a while in the work on probes that has emerged, creating space for ambiguity, artefacts and participation in the design process.
What struck me during the keynote was [...]

the interesting times have already begun

family structures, labour market, education systems… a change is coming. If you think these ave changed rapidly in the last 50 years, you aint seen nothing yet!