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By Rain Noe - Feb 13
Flat Touchscreens with Physical Buttons that Magically Grow Out of Them
Tactus Technology is finally bringing their morphable buttons to market
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By Rain Noe - Feb 09
Pixie: Personal Object Tracking
Never lose that remote again with the Pixie tracking tag.
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By Rain Noe - Jan 26
Fantastical UI Design from Sci-Fi Movies
Looking at Dino Ignacio's work made me start thinking about fantasy-based UI design. The first time I really became aware of motion graphics cooking up digital UI's was probably way back during Minority Report or one of the Matrix movies. Being over ten years ago, you can see how...
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By Rain Noe - Jan 23
Where Dead Space, Darth Vader and Dieter Rams Meet: In UI Designer Dino Ignacio's Work
We all know that your average, workaday industrial designer's work often goes unsung. The same could be said of the guys who design UI for videogames. And when those games are designed with an efficient UI, literally millions of players work through those games in smooth immersion, never considering the...
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By anki - Jan 22
Cologne Design Week: KISD's LABOR Design n+1 exhibition for Passagen
Our first stop during Cologne's design week is Passagen, a collection of 190 exhibitions scattered throughout the north part of the city. Off the beaten path for people who are more used to strolling through more established hubs and brands, the chilly walk lead...
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By Kill Screen - Jan 20
Tale of Tales on Revolution, Mid-Century Architecture, Graffiti and Sunset
This post originally appeared on Kill Screen, a videogame arts and culture website.Story by Jess Joho for Kill ScreenTale of Tale's upcoming game Sunset has beguiled us since we first saw it—a vision altogether more assured, colorful and inviting than the vast majority of games we come across. Last week,...
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By Rain Noe - Jan 15
Animator Hacks Nintendo Power Glove to Remotely Control Capture Equipment
Dillon Markey is a Los Angeles-based stop-motion animator who works for Robot Chicken and the film director PES. And as we saw in the Boxtrolls video, stop-motion work requires making hundreds upon thousands of minute adjustments. But what we didn't see in that video was the animator stepping away from...
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By Kill Screen - Jan 13
Sci-Fi Film Corridors Re-Purposed as a Videogame Maze
This post originally appeared on Kill Screen, a videogame arts and culture website. Story by Chris Priestman for Kill Screen.Corridors are a significant architectural space in a lot of science fiction films. Perhaps you haven't considered this before given the brevity of their screen time. And that's largely due to the...
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By Rain Noe - Jan 05
Montblanc's Approach to the Smartwatch: Move the Screen to the Other Side of the Wrist
The Apple Watch launches this year, which means we'll soon see loads of imitators and competitors. The 2015 CES is bound to be smartwatch-crazy. But one prominent watch manufacturer is taking a different tack: Offering a smart watch strap that can be attached to different watches.The Montblanc E-Strap is an...
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By Rain Noe - Dec 31, 2014
A Designer Who Uses Her Nose
What would you do if you couldn't work a mouse?Michelle Vandy was an architecture student who developed a repetitive strain injury in first one arm, then the other. Obviously this was a rather crippling setback. "All my interests and hobbies revolved around my arms and my studies and future career...
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By Teshia Treuhaft - Dec 17, 2014
Is 'Flow' the Future of Haptic UI? An Interview with Senic CEO Tobias Eichenwald
Chances are if you're a designer, artist, musician or use a computer daily, you have encountered that fateful moment when your mouse keeps you from making that perfect color selection or nudging a layer into exact position with Photoshop. While most computer aided drawing and modeling programs account for clumsy...
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By Sam Dunne - Dec 12, 2014
Pizza Hut's 'Subconscious Menu': Mindless Consumption Hits Astonishing New Low
Something's definitely been cooking in the R&D department at Pizza Hut this year. In a market showing trends to polarization—the rise of the high-end, handmade, hipster-friendly, small batch, sourdough, pizza-craft on one hand, and the quick, easy, cheap, delivered-to-your-door stuff still going strong on the other—the middle of the road...
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By Sam Dunne - Dec 01, 2014
HashKey: Ironic Accessory Makes a Stand Against Qwerty Orthodoxy
On first glimpse of the HashKey—perhaps as a result of Kickstarter overexposure—my heart sank under the weight of my tumbling faith in humanity and fear for its future. Fortunately, on closer inspection, I found sweet salvation in the realization this was, of course, a product conceived with an eyebrow raised...
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By Ray Hu - Nov 19, 2014
Birding the Flip: Max Kessler's Curious Coin-Toss Contraption
Well, here's a rather fun self-proclaimed "stupid pet project"—a literal brief if there ever was one—by SVA IXD student Max Kessler. As a kind of analog random number generator, "Coin Flip" is rather more purposeful than this brilliant gizmo, and the drinking-bird-meets-desktop-trebuchet invariably offers a more delightful user experience than,...
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By Ray Hu - Nov 14, 2014
This Week in Extending the Reach of Industrial Design: At Home in the Lab and Vice Versa with fuseproject and Quirky+GE
L: The Fluidigm Juno, designed by fuseproject; R: Quirky+GE's "Tripper" sensorAs an editor at Core77, I often find myself attempting to explain what industrial design is, and I'm sure those of you who are actually practicing designers often find yourselves in find yourselves in the same position. It's regrettable that...
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By Core Jr - Nov 10, 2014
Uncovering the Power of the Power User: Reframing the Success of a Mobile App
By Sheryle GillihanEvery organization that is developing an app has hopes of becoming the next viral hit, but even great apps compete for attention amongst the distractions.Moneythink, the established and growing financial literacy program for urban, low-income high school students, also had high expectations of adoption for its app. After...
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By Rain Noe - Oct 23, 2014
HP Inc.'s Sprout Computer to Feature a New Type of Interaction Design
HP making magic? Earlier this month it was reported that Hewlett-Packard was breaking up into two companies. While one half, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, will focus on boring stuff like corporate computing, the other half, HP Inc., sounds a little sexier with its emphasis on 3D printing and "new computing experiences."Since that announcement,...
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By Rain Noe - Oct 16, 2014
"Multi Layer Interaction:" Gesture Control Via Ultrasound
We assume that gesture control will be the wave of the future, if you'll pardon the pun. And we also assumed it would be perfected by developers tweaking camera-based information. But now Elliptic Labs, a spinoff company from a research outfit at Norway's University of Oslo, has developed the technology...
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By Rain Noe - Oct 08, 2014
Cool Interface Design: FlexSense, an Interactive Physical Overlay Sheet for Tablets
Once upon a time, industrial designers, animators, graphic designers and illustrators physically used acetate or mylar sheets as overlays on drawings. Newer generations of creatives now understand this concept as Photoshop layers, which can easily be clicked on and off digitally. But now a team of researchers has combined the...
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By Rain Noe - Sep 29, 2014
Fascinating Old-School Interface Design Education: How We Used Telephones Before Dials Were Invented, and How We Learned to Switch Over
If you want to call your friend Jim, you can say "Call Jim" into your phone and it dials him. Five years ago you'd click on the name "Jim" in your phone and it would dial him. Twenty-five years ago, you'd call Jim by punching his number into a touch-tone...
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By Rain Noe - Sep 19, 2014
Mobile Interface Design: "Thumb Zones" for the new iPhones
The iPhone 6 and 6 Plus roll out today, and uptake will be massive. In addition to the insane sidewalk lines you'll shortly see on the news, Apple has racked up a staggering 4 million pre-orders. iOS app developers who upgrade their offerings will have a ready market, but they...
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By Rain Noe - Sep 08, 2014
The Apple vs. Samsung Battle, Long May It Be Waged (for the Sake of UI Design)
As designers, we find it amusing that there are Apple lovers that hate Samsung and vice versa. What the layperson doesn't seem to grasp is that the rivalry is good for the advancement of UI design. While Apple typically marches to their own drum, and reportedly had no interest in...
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By Rain Noe - Jun 30, 2014
Google's "Material Design" Approach to Interface Design, and the Hell of Providing Tech Support to Your Mom Over the Phone
An interface design is not successful just because you can figure out how to work it. The true test is whether you can explain to your parents, over the phone, how to work it. For any of you who have served as de facto tech support for your folks in...
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By Christie Nicholson - Jun 25, 2014
Our Brains are Built to Like Curved Screens
There's a good reason we are experiencing the rise of the so-called "visual web." Our minds were destined to be attracted to visuals over text—since most of our brain real estate is devoted to sight. The visual cortex makes up one third of our brain. And the emerging trend...
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By Rain Noe - May 05, 2014
Wearable Technology has Targeted the Eyes, Ears, Wrists. Next: Fingers?
One can't help but notice all of the experimentation going on in the wearable devices field. Nothing has gained ubiquitous traction, but that's not for lack of trying; the field includes Google Glass, Nike's Fuelband (R.I.P.), Jawbone's Up, a variety of bluetooth earpieces, Samsung's Galaxy Gear Smartwatch, and whatever Apple's...
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By Christie Nicholson - Apr 23, 2014
For Minority-Report-like Interface, Just Add Water. Or Actually, Fog
I'm definitely among those who have been waiting for Minority Report-like gesturing to become a reality. While light beams on desks and walls seems close, it's not our hands manipulating objects in thin air. But now researchers at the University of Bristol have developed the starting point, called MisTable. And...
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By Ray Hu - Apr 14, 2014
Milan 2014: ECAL Explores the Intersection of Media & Interaction and Industrial Design in 'Delirious Home'
It's an increasingly pressing question in this day and age, and one that has certainly seen some interesting responses—including this interdepartmental collaboration from Switzerland design school ECAL—as an evolving dialectic between two closely related design disciplines. Exhibited in Milan's Brera District during the Salone del Mobile last week, "Delirious Home"...
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By Rain Noe - Mar 20, 2014
Volvo's Unusual Concept Estate: An Apple-CarPlay-Boasting Two-Door Station Wagon
Volvo's recently introduced a trio of concept cars: The Concept Coupe, the Concept XC Coupe and the Concept Estate. It is the latter that has most caught our eye because it is, quite oddly to us Yanks, a two-door station wagon. In America, the station wagon has always been about...
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By Rain Noe - Mar 06, 2014
The Future of Dine-Out Interface Design from... Pizza Hut?
It's been over a year since we've seen interactive restaurant tables in the news, but here comes a new one from Pizza Hut. Yes, the American fast food joint is hoping that if their deep-dish pizzas aren't enough to get you inside, perhaps their fee-yancy touchscreen table will be. Have...
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By Rain Noe - Feb 27, 2014
Brilliant Smartphone Design from Yota: Two Screens, and One's Persistent
Someone has finally taken note that throughout the day, we use our smartphones in at least two different ways. There's the active way, where you're futzing around with an app and your thumbs are flying across the screen. Then there's the passive way, where you're glancing at it to reference...
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By Gloria Suzie Kim - Oct 21, 2013
How Snow White is Turning Airbnb into a Service Design Company and Other Highlights from the Service Experience Conference 2013
Woman shopping for groceries in South Korea at a HomePlus display using her mobile phoneEarlier this month, Adaptive Path held the Service Experience conference in San Francisco, CA. The conference invited designers and business leaders who are out there 'in the trenches' to share insights, tips, and methods from their...
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By Ray Hu - Sep 20, 2013
New iOS7 Version of Free 'Micro Guide' App How.Do Launches at World Maker Faire This Weekend
Although it launched nearly a year ago, I'm surprised that an app called How.Do didn't turn up on our radar—after all, an app for making quick'n'dirty how-to tutorials is right up our alley. Thankfully, co-founder Emma Rose Metcalfe reached out to us on the occasion of the launch of How.Do...
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By Rain Noe - Aug 15, 2013
For the Corvette Stingray, a User-Configurable Dashboard
As we recently saw, Ford has been experimenting with ways for drivers to use real-time vehicle information. Now competitor Chevrolet is also throwing their hat into this ring with a new, configurable dashboard display in the 2014 Corvette Stingray.For the Fast & Furious set, the Stingray's dash can display acceleration...
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