How to use motion detection for a great product experience
Luke Wroblewski is showing in a series of videos for Intel how to use motion features of new hardware devices to improve the product experience. Valuable!
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A new benchmark for home gaming?
Microsoft revealed their new XBOX ONE - speech driven XBOX ONE enables a fast switch between home entertainment apps like tv, skype, games and internet.
Switch to minute 11:00 to catch the interesting parts.
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Human centered design of a surf experience
In this awesome short film the talents of Rob Machado are documented with quiet and poetic images. The film really caught the essence of a pure surfing experience in an pleasent way. Enjoy!
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How to create products people love
Why is it so hard to build really great products? Is it really that hard? Isn`t there a secret recipe? Maybe there is. Marty Cagan created products for companies like HP, Netscape, AOL and eBay. He founded the Silicon Valley Product Group and is willing to share his insights.
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Eva-Lotta Lamm’s ‘Sketchnotes 2012’
I wish I could sketch like Eva-Lotta Lamm. I really do. Her sketches are pretty incredible.
Her new book, Sketchnotes 2012, is now available in print and PDF. “Visual notes of countless talks by inspiring speakers” from around the globe, as Eva-Lotta describes it. You can find the book on Amazon, too.
And somewhere amongst its pages you’ll find her notes from my talk in Düsseldorf last Fall.
Coffee table book? Pfft, no. This is a tome of inspiration. And in my case, envy.
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Have fun with Lisa - Part 1
In this Apple company video explaining the main features of Apple Lisa in 1983 its exciting to see what was already feasible and possible with an OS User Interface 30 years ago. Interestingly to see that our main User Interface workflows in current Operating systems do not differ so much from what was completely new in 1983.Enjoy!
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How Google discovered Design →
The Verve shows a neat video about how Google discovered the value of good design to sell the Google experience. Interviews with the design leads of all main Google products deliver some insights into how they shifted their mindset from building to designing apps.
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Will Interaction Design become a leading role in shaping future Products?
A video covering the thoughts of Interaction Design thinkers and leaders explores the (future) world in which Interaction Design will play its role as a “shaper of human behavior”. Enjoy and rethink it
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A new player on the (mobile) horizon
Ubuntu (phone) seems to or wants to be the new player in the arena already crowded with iOS, Android and Windows. The Ubuntu guys took a lot of ideas from Windows phone and Metro for guiding the user through their phone OS. It will show up if users will be capabale of learning all these gestures to figure out where their last tweet is available and where to post the actual foto made on the phone.
Make your own mind
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Why “Design thinking” makes no sense
Dan Saffer shows in his funny, but sarcastic movie why he thinks that “Design thinking” makes no sense. Think about
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The 1-Eye-1-Thumb test
Smartphones are used nearly in every context we can think of, may it in the bathroom in the morning, while commuting in a train or on my couch while watching TV. This means that all the apps i use will hardly have my full attentation.
Luke Wroblewski, author of Mobile First, created a test method where users test a smartphone app just with one thumb. The idea behind: an app must be simple and easy to use in a way that it can be used with “one thumb” and “one eye”.
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How to build an innovative product in one week - Part 3
Part 3 of IDEO`s deep dive showing how to design a complete new shopping cart in a 5-day week.
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How to build an innovative product in one week - Part 2
Part 2 of IDEO`s deep dive showing how to design a complete new shopping cart in a 5-day week. Focused brainstorming without judging the ideas of others is a fundamental aspect of idea generation for innovation.
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How to build an innovative product in one week - Part 1
Innovation is a heavly used buzzword. IDEO, the well known Design company, showed how it is possible to design a complete new product in 1 week. Time pressure may be one ingredient in this secret sauce.
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