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Kriby Fuerguson spricht in diesem großartigen Kurzfilm über die Grundelemenente von Kreativität: Copy, Transform and Combine. Bei diesem Film solltet ihr auch nach dem Abspann noch weiterschauen. Der Schluss bringt nämlich eine interessante Aussage: "What if Xerox never decided to pursue the graphical user interface (…) what if Tim Berners-Lee... Weiterlesen
Sehenswerter Vortrag von Aaron Koblin über Informationsvisualisierung und kollaboratives Design - sehr schöne Beispiele. Am besten gefällt mir das Johnny Cash-Projekt - großartig :-) 19th century culture was defined by the novel, 20th century culture by cinema, the culture of the 21st century will be defined by the interface. (Danke... Weiterlesen
Stellt Euch vor Ihr sitzt in einer Session auf der GEL 2011, wartet auf die Vorstellung des neusten Social Media Plattform und dann passiert das hier: Das Musical stammt von Improv Everywhere: Improv Everywhere is a New York City-based prank collective that causes scenes of chaos and joy in public... Weiterlesen
Schöne Idee für eine Vermartkungskampagne von Fiat auf Basis von QR codes und location based services: Siehe auchFiat Street Evo » The app that evolved streets forever... Weiterlesen
Dieses sehr schön gemachte Video von CollegeHumor deckt endlich das große Erfolgsgeheimnis von Apple auf:... Weiterlesen
In der Frankfurter Allgemeinen Sonntagszeitung vom 06.02.2011 war in der Verlagsbeilage "Wirtschaftsfaktor Design" ein schönes Zitat von Prof. Detlef Rahe zu lesen. Prof. Rahe ist der Mitinhaber des Designbüros rahe+rahe aus Bremen: "Routine ist der Feind des Neuen. Wer seine Neugierde verliert, ist nicht mehr fähig, Innovationen zu schaffen. Nur... Weiterlesen
Noch eins dieser schicken neuen iPad-Bücher. Dieses hier scheint eine Mischung aus Buch und Film mit Untertitel zu sein: (Danke an Jochen Graeber für den Tipp)... Weiterlesen
Die Vertrauensbasis ist ja im geschäftlichen und beruflichen Bereich eine wichtige Grundlage für gute Zusammenarbeit. Das haben sich wohl auch die Entwickler das AusweisApp für den neuen Personalausweis gedacht und die Vertrauensbasis einfach als Software-Komponente in der Version 1.0.2 umgesetzt. Da die Vertrauensbasis nach dem letzten Hacker-Skandal offensichtlich etwas angekratzt... Weiterlesen
IDEO hat sich ein paar interessante Gedanken zur Zukunft des Buches gemacht: Siehe auchIDEO’s vision for the future of the book... Weiterlesen
Hier ist noch eins von diesen schicken Zukunfts-Visions-Videos. Diesmal von TAT. Sehr cool finde ich die Stelle wo die beiden auf der Bank Bilder austauschen. Das hätte ich auch gern. Siehe auchFuture os Screens - Experience video... Weiterlesen
Schönes Projekt von Microsoft Research. Mit LightSpace lässt sich fast jeder Tisch zum Multitouch-Interface machen. Das System basiert auf Projektoren und einer 3D-Kamera, die von der Deck hängen: Siehe auchvia engadget... Weiterlesen
Hier zum Wochenende ein inspirierendes Video von Invivia. In der offiziellen Erklärung heißt es: XUI Play is the third video in a series of conceptual movie shorts developed for Microsoft Surface. The series is a poetic exploration of how technology might integrate invisibly in our daily lives.XUI Play is a... Weiterlesen
Ein häufiges Problem von komplexen Software-Anwendungen ist, dass Anwender mit sehr vielen Funktionen konfrontiert werden und es ihnen entsprechend schwer fällt sich die Positionen und Funktionsweisen von allen Funktionen zu merken. Besonders bei Funktionen die nur selten genutzt werden, muss man sich als Anwender jedes Mal von Neuem auf die... Weiterlesen
Das ist das Schöne am Urlaub ... man kann sich auch mal mit anderen Dingen beschäftigen. Beispielsweise mit Türgriffen fürs WC. Hier mal zwei bemerkenswerte Exemplare: Screenshot: arnaud-lapierre.com Screenshot: www.bimbambanana.com Siehe auchArnaud Lapierre Bim Bam Banana: THE LIGHTING DOOR HANDLE... Weiterlesen
Screenshot: Starten von Mediaplayer auf dem Mac... Weiterlesen
Fehlermeldung einer T-Home Box Diese Fehlermeldung zeigte mein T-Home Media Receiver als das manuelle Update schief ging. Schick, aber für mich als Anwender nutzlos und kostspielig. Die eigentliche Nachricht ist in der Anzahl der Vierecke unter dem roten X versteckt und kann nur vom Kundenservice entschlüsselt werden. Diesen wiederrum... Weiterlesen
Auf bookofjoe.com findet sich eine schöne Karrikatur von Roz Chast über Omas Sicht auf die Fernsehfernbedienung :-) Siehe auch 'How Grandma Sees the Remote' — by Roz Chast... Weiterlesen
Man stelle sich vor, man könnte Bilder genau so vergrößern, wie man es bei einem Pizzateig beim Ausrollen macht. Man zieht es einfach mit zwei Fingern auseinander. In diesem youtube-Video zeigt Steve Hodges ein Projekt von Microsoft Research Cambridge in dem eine sehr einfache Technologie entwickelt wurde, mit der... Weiterlesen
Screenshot: woistdaniel.de Clemens Lutsch - seines Zeichens User Experience Evangelist bei Microsoft - hat in seinem Blog eine GPS-Spielerei seines Kollegen Daniel vorgestellt. Damit kann man ziemlich genau nachschauen, wo dieser in den letzten Tagen in München war. Kaum schaut man mal nicht den Kollegen über die Schulter :),... Weiterlesen
(Heute morgen in Wandsbek) Man glaubt es kaum, aber es schneit auch in Hamburg :-)... Weiterlesen
(Screenshot: medgadget.com) Philips Medical hat ein neues kabelloses und sehr schlankes Display vorgestellt, welches für die Verwendung im klinischen Umfeld gedacht ist: Physicians visiting patients on the ward can use ProScribe to prescribe medication or make laboratory appointments on the spot. Nurses typically use the display to enter blood... Weiterlesen
(Screenshot: markupmarks.de) Auf markupmarks.de sammelt Lothar B. Baier nützliche Links zu Usability-Themen wie z.B. Lautes Denken, Personas, Heuristische Inspektion. Internetverweismarkupmarks - bookmarks für webmacher... Weiterlesen
(Screenshot: gizmodo.com) Gizmodo.com published a picture of a thumb-typing interface for origami pcs. It looks like future origami users must have very long thumbs. InternetverweisCeBIT Trade Rag Reveals More Origami Details... Weiterlesen
(Screenshot: channel9.msdn.com) Have a look at that impressive healthcare demo of the Windows Presentation Foundation. InternetverweisSanjay Parthasarathy and Ben Riga - Healthcare demo of Windows Presentation Foundation... Weiterlesen
(Screenshot: usabilitybok.org) The Usability Professionals’ Association (UPA) published a preview of a webportal for usability professionals. This usability-website contains knowledge about usability methods, user interface design and other usability related topics: "The Usability Body of Knowledge (BoK) project is dedicated to creating a living reference that represents the collective... Weiterlesen
(Screenshot: usability.net) Did you know UsabilityNet? UsabilityNet is a "European Union project that provides usability and user centred design resources to practitioners, managers and EU projects." The offer e.g. informations about usability methods and other usability resources. Internetverweisusability.net... Weiterlesen
(Screenshot: developer.yahoo.net) "The Yahoo! User Interface Library is a set of utilities and controls, written in JavaScript, for building richly interactive web applications using techniques such as DOM scripting, HTML and AJAX. The UI Library Utilities facilitate the implementation of rich client-side features by enhancing and normalizing the developer's... Weiterlesen
(textually.org) Emily from textually.org reported a new communications system for hospital staff: "Health workers at the Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro are piloting the tiny voice-activated badges developed by BT. They weigh less than 2oz (57g). The badge allows instant communication between staff by simply saying a person's name... Weiterlesen
Screenshot: developer.yahoo.net Yahoo published their UI Design Pattern Library: "Welcome to the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library. We are very happy to be sharing our library with the design and development community. This is our first drop of what we hope to be a monthly release cycle for the publication... Weiterlesen
(Screenshot: connare.com) Read Vincent Connares article about why comic sans was made and why it is better than Times New Roman: "Comic Sans was designed because when I was working at Microsoft I received a beta version of Microsoft Bob. It was a comic software package that had a... Weiterlesen
Screenshot: news.bbc.co.uk Dan Simmons about the gadgets Microsoft's researchers would like to see in the future " Those familiar with the Harry Potter books and films might recognise the first idea - called the Whereabouts Clock. It shows you where people are, and its inventor Abigail Sellen thinks its... Weiterlesen
A few minutes ago, i found something interesting about favicons on this site Maybe everyone already knew about these, but I just stumbled on them a few weeks ago and found some more yesterday. Visit these websites (preferable with Firefox) and check out the favicons for each - they... Weiterlesen
Screenshot: stanford.edu Do you know Doug Engelbart? "On December 9, 1968, Douglas C. Engelbart and the group of 17 researchers working with him in the Augmentation Research Center at Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, CA, presented a 90-minute live public demonstration of the online system, NLS, they had... Weiterlesen
Peter Morville published an article about Ubiquitous Findable Objects and his new book: "The term ambient findability describes a world at the crossroads of ubiquitous computing and the internet, in which we can find anyone or anything from anywhere at any time. It's not necessarily a goal, and we'll never... Weiterlesen
Screenshot: frogreview.com Frog Review is a webpage where two talking frogs review websites. In november they talk about ticketmaster.com. InternetverweisA Review of ticketmaster spoken by two frogs... Weiterlesen
Screenshot: cscout.com Florian Peter published an Overview of the results of Philips "Sense and Simplicity"-Campaign: "Finally a company started thinking – and the results of Philips new concept products of simplicity-led design are exiting and smart enough to be featured on our blog: Momento is a small glass ball... Weiterlesen
Screenshot: ibm.com A Collaborative User Experience Technical Report by Michael J. Muller and Daniel M. Gruen from IBM Watson Research Center: "In this paper we look at a situation in which email is not simply a channel for collaboration and communication but a site of collaboration itself, involving email... Weiterlesen
Screenshot: news.com "The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art hosted an RFID reception the evening of Oct. 27, 2005. Attendees were handed radio frequency identification (RFID) tags to place on their clothes. Then their movements were tracked, and their location throughout the evening was indicated on a screen. (...)... Weiterlesen
Screenshot: gamestudies.org John P. Davis, Keith Steury and Randy Pagulaya published a paper about a survey method for assessing perceptions of a game at gamestudies.org: "We have described the playtest method, which is a way to collect information from consumers about how they perceive a game’s elements. The main... Weiterlesen
Screenshot: gc-upa.de Die Usability Broschüre „Was Sie schon immer über Usability erfahren wollten.“ ist nun verfügbar. Die Broschüre erklärt, warum Usability Voraussetzung für den Erfolg ist und stellt die wichtigsten Methoden der Usability vor. Fallbeispiele berichten davon, wie der Erfolg bei echten Projekten durch Usability gesteigert wurde bzw. wie... Weiterlesen
Screenshot: techsmith.com Do you need an excuse why your application isn't userfriendly or crashed? Try Jaco Strauss' Tech Support Excuse Generator to create one. :-) InternetverweisJaco Strauss' Tech Support Excuse Generator More Generators: The Generator Blog... Weiterlesen
Screenshot: weblogs.media.mit.edu/SIMPLICITY John Maeda compared the design evolution of google and yahoo!: "Today I was asked by Jessie Scanlon of Business Week regarding the difference between the design of Google and Yahoo! So, I fired up the the all-seeing eye of archive.org to look way back in the past.... Weiterlesen
Screenshot: blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/ Jensen Harris started a webblog about the user interface of the new Office 12. He is working on the Microsoft Office "user experience" team. "My name is Jensen Harris and I work on the Microsoft Office 'user experience' team. Our team is responsible for the overall interaction... Weiterlesen
Screenshot: medgadget.com medGadget reported on a designer concept of a nanotech dermal display by Gina Miller: "In his book Nanomedicine, Volume I: Basic Capabilities [available on the web at http://www.nanomedicine.com/NMI.htm ], Robert A. Freitas Jr. describes [in section 7.4.6.7 (page 204)] a "programmable dermal display" in which a population... Weiterlesen
Prof. Steffi Beckhaus presented her research on a new gaming device for first-person-shooter at the Mensch und Computer 2005. The corresponding paper from Steffi Beckhaus, Kristopher J. Blom and Matthias Haringer is available at the webpage of the "interactive media / virtual environments" group of the university hamburg: "This... Weiterlesen
Screenshot: immersion.com Immersion offers a touchscreen wich gives tactile feedback: "With Immersion TouchSense® technology, the touchscreen touches back. Users can actually feel that onscreen buttons both depress and spring back, which supplies a completely new and unexpected experience." InternetverweisTouchscreens that touches back... Weiterlesen
Screenshot: productdose.com Productdose.com reported an audiosensor that can be used to control electronic components: "In our never-ending quest to find products that will allow us to use fewer and fewer muscles, we’ve come up with the Audiosensor from Tona Interactive. Set the device on a hard surface and it... Weiterlesen
We know that, users don't read manuals and cooking instructions. Why is there no RFID-Tag on the package and why can't my cooker read RFID-Tags? Cooking frozen pizza could be so easy.... Weiterlesen
Screenshot: iPhoto 2.0.1 (3E8), Deutsche Version Auch Apples Entwickler kommen am aktuellen Trend, Dialekte für die Ansprache von spezielle Zielgruppen zu verwenden, nicht herum. Siehe dazu den Screenshot von iPhoto 2.0.1 (3E8), Deutsche Version.... Weiterlesen
Screenshot: ipragma.com "xSort is a card sorting application for Mac OS X. It allows you to easily define a new card sorting problem, perform several sessions with multiple participants, and finally analyze the results (using multiple criteria) and generate printable reports. (...) Card Sorting is a technique for exploring... Weiterlesen
Screenshot: nicoladoering.de Usability News (Ann Light) wrote an articel about the research of Nicola Döring (Ilmenau University of Technology in Germany) on multimedia messaging services: "Analysing 575 pictorial emails and 343 MMS from her 112 German-speaking participants (split fairly equally along gender lines and representing ages from 14 to... Weiterlesen
Screenshot: artlebedev.com "Every key of the Optimus keyboard is a stand-alone display showing exactly what it is controlling at this very moment." This is very nice and it would solve some problems of keyboard control and memorising shortcuts. Internetverweisartlebedev.com: Optimus Keyboard... Weiterlesen
Screenshot: kraftfoods.de Passend zum Weimarer Wetter eine Infografik von Milka über die Herstellung des Schoko-Weihnachtsmannes. InternetverweisInfografik: Die Herstellung des Schoko-Weihnachtsmannes... Weiterlesen
Screenshot: masternewmedia.org At Robin Good you can see one of the first rollable displays. "Rollable displays are projected to be the primary solution to the consequent demand for larger displays in mobile devices -- without increasing device size, weight, or power consumption. The first likely entry in this arena... Weiterlesen
Screenshot: medienhandbuch.de "Schneller und noch kundenfreundlicher soll die Reise in der Zukunft beginnen. Lufthansa arbeitet an neuen innovativen Lösungen für reibungslosen und schnellen Service am Boden. Noch bis zum 15. Juli testet Lufthansa dazu bei simulierten Flügen ein biometrisches Verfahren zum Boarding. Der Versuch ist Teil der Innovationsoffensive für... Weiterlesen
Screenshot: veen.com/PDF-Document Jeffrey Veen made a original PDF proof of his book "The Art and Science of Web Design" available as download. "I wrote The Art and Science of Web Design five years ago. That doesn't seem like all that long ago, really, but when I recently paged through... Weiterlesen
Screenshot: autobild.de Ein Kommentar der Autobild zum iDrive Bedienkonzept (BMW): "Sehr aufgeräumt und kühl wirkt der Innenraum. Statt vieler einzelner Schalter gibt es den zentralen Bedienknopf iDrive. Wer nicht weiß, wie eine Menüführung funktioniert, hat damit ein Problem. Kinder und Enkel erklären das System meist besser als die Bedienungsanleitung."... Weiterlesen
Source: chatelp.org "MacOS X is an amazing operating system. It’s fast, it’s stable, it’s based on unix (bsd roots to be precise) and, best of all, it has a breathtaking interface. The problem is, when you use it every day it can be pretty boring. Of course, you can... Weiterlesen
Caroline Jarrett about Survey Response Rates: "In the 1950s, a well-designed survey could often achieve over 90% response rates. Since then, response rates have consistently declined. But I was still a bit shocked the other day when a post on a usability discussion group quoted a ‘typical response rate of... Weiterlesen
I found this picture of the Formula One Grand Prix Software wich is used by the Renault F1 Team in a advertising of the "Deutsche Post Speed Academy". Please notice the leightweight carbon scrollbars and aluminium buttons. :-) (I am sorry about the quality. It is scanned from a... Weiterlesen
screenshot: playawaydigital.com "The way we see it, storytelling used to be simple. Someone spoke. Someone listened. Then somewhere along the line, technology actually made it mot complicated. Cumbersome collections of cassettes, CDs and internet downloads with competing digital formats were all thrust between the storyteller and listener. And for... Weiterlesen
screenshot: digital-web.com In this article at digital-web.com Joshua David McClurg-Genevese looked at the principles of design. "The principles of design are the guiding truths of our profession, the basic concepts of balance, rhythm, proportion, dominance and unity. Successful use of these core ideas insures a solid foundation upon which... Weiterlesen
screenshot: simyo.de Am 9. Juni 2005 war ein interessanter Artikel von Marco Saal über Werbung für technische Produkte mit dem Begriff "Einfachheit" anstatt "Preis" auf Seite 17 in der Horizont (Ausgabe 23/5). Dabei stellt er die folgenden Thesen auf: "Viele Verbraucher sind vom Wandel der Technik im Bereich Internet,... Weiterlesen
screenshot: innocentive.com Roland Piquepaille wrote about a web-based community of 80.000 scientists that solve biological and chemical problems for big companies and a BusinessWeek-Article about mass collaboration on the Internet. "Back in 2001, the management of Eli Lilly decided to see if thousands of researchers around the world, and... Weiterlesen
screenshot: anjapichler.com Anja Pichler hat sich im Rahmen Ihrer Diplomarbeit mit der Umsetzung eines Corporate Designs in einer Softwarebedienoberfläche beschäftigt: "Viele Unternehmen befinden sich in einem ständigen Wandel. Das Agieren und die Produkte werden professioneller und ausgereifter, die Nachfrage wird größer. Daraus resultiert, dass sich auch die Identität eines... Weiterlesen
screenshot: interaction-design.org Mads Soegaard put a new Encyclopedia (wiki) about interaction design online. Approximately 5000 Authors describe(d) terms of Interaction Design, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Design, Human Factors, Usability, Information Architecture, and related fields. In Addition the website contains a conference calendar. "By using the Creative Commons Copyright Licence, the... Weiterlesen
screenshot: brighthandle.com These door handles tell you if the door is locked in a very fancy way - even before you pushed it. "There are numerous possible applications for Alfa online; public bathrooms, conference rooms, dressing rooms only to mention a few. The handle indicates the room is occupied... Weiterlesen
screenshot: uservision.co.uk Chris Rourke about the usablity of the websites of six British political parties: "This review looked at the website of six British political parties and assessed them against recognised usability and accessibility standards. The internet is increasingly a resource used to research detailed issues such as political... Weiterlesen
Source: BMW Bedienungsanleitung Der Bordcomputer meines BMW teilte mir heute mit einem freundlichen Bing mit, dass ich dringend eine Flüssigkeit - laut meiner Interpretation des Symbols: Kühlflüssigkeit - nachfüllen müsse. Also war ich in der Werkstatt wo der Meister die Kühlflüssigkeit geprüft hat und meinte das alles in Ordnung... Weiterlesen
Screenshot: lukew.com Luke Wroblewski shows in his latest article a history of Amazon’s Tab Navigation: "Amazon.com popularized the tab navigation metaphor online. Through the years they explored multiple interface design solutions to make their growing product inventory accessible to Web users. As a result, some interesting lessons emerge when... Weiterlesen
Screenshot: grokker.com Grokker returns query results from yahoo organized into a visual map. This is not really new, but usefull. The only thing I don't like is the very low information density of the maps. The graphics waste to much space. related linksGrokker... Weiterlesen
Screenshot: news.bbc.co.uk Eine Waschmaschine zur Unterstützung der Gleichverteilung von Haushaltsaufgaben. Es könnte nur zu Problemen kommen, wenn man mal länger als eine Woche allein den Haushalt hütet. Da muss dann eben der hilfsbereite Nachbar ran. "A Spanish designer has come up with what could be the perfect solution for... Weiterlesen
Screenshot: 37signals.com 37signal reported that amazon tried a new book detail page. "The new page sports a huge 400px tall book cover, a cleaned up and stacked page layout (each section takes the full width of the page and is bordered by dashed lines, revised typography with bigger type... Weiterlesen
After my breakfast i found a nice article on simplebits.com about the elbow problems with your neighbours. I'm sure everyone of you knows that conflict :-) It's worth to read it. "There is an extremely serious design issue that continues to plague the travellers of the world. I estimate that... Weiterlesen
Screenshot: storyabout.net Hansol Huh created a aesthetical typographic amusement. "This is one of the easy and exquisite way of showing one's word. You can say anything with your letters by drawing them. Feel free to represent your types and words to say. It's just a easy and funny thing."... Weiterlesen
Screenshot: Encore Magazin "Icons sind heutzutage weit mehr als Symbole für Ordner, Dokumente oder Programme und trotz oder vielleicht gerade wegen ihrer eher simplen technischen Eigenschaften, sind sie für viele Gestalter und Künstler zu einer eigenständigen Ausdrucksform geworden." Das Encore Magazin zeigt in der Ausgabe vom 08. April 2005... Weiterlesen
Screenshot: sillypatent.com (patent#: US 6840838) Website on real american patents. Daniel Wright and Alex Eben Meyer sort every week through the United States Patent and Trademark Office web site to find "usually a) really weird, b) really cool, c)really scary" patents and to put them on their website. related... Weiterlesen
Screenshot: wellstyled.com A webtool for choosing the right color. The greeting is very impressive. A good example for the next "Don'ts and Does"-book. related links:Pixy Color Schemes... Weiterlesen
Screenshot: cemos.de A nice cemos computer for your living room: Athlon 64 XP3000+, 512 MB DDR-RAM, 128 MB Gecube Radeon 9550 Xtreme, 160 GB Harddrive, DVD-ROM, IR-Remote, Windows XP Media Center Edition. Price: about 1.000 EUR related links:www.cemos.de www.amisos.de Screenshot: hushtechnologies.de an another one from hush Swift, sexy and... Weiterlesen
Screenshot: DELL Scanner DELL Computers are cheap and DELL doesnt make profit so they found another way: They give you a gratis Printer/Scanner if you buy a DELL Computer. During the scan process with this brand new DELL Printer/Scanner you have two options: Scan abbrechen - cancel Tinte bestellen... Weiterlesen
Screenshot: pixelgraphix.de Manuela Hoffmann presents a Weblog Iconset on her Blog. All Icons are available in 13×15px and can be used free of charge for non-commercial use. related links:Icons@pixelgraphix.de... Weiterlesen
Screenshot: chosun.com Kim Gi-hong wrote on chosun.com a news about an Monitor for Color-Blind. "Samsung Electronics announced Wednesday it is developing liquid crystal display (LCD) monitors that support color correction technology for people with dyschromatopsia or color blindness and will launch them in the first half of the year.... Weiterlesen
Screenshot: http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users Kathy Sierra wrote an nice article about doing many thing at once e.g.: "Think of how many times you've been on the phone with someone when you hear that little click-clack of their keyboard. (I hate that. I do it to other people, but I hate it... Weiterlesen
Source: font shop At FontShop you can download a selection of the FF Dingbats set for free: "stylish and handy pictograms that you'll use again and again." related links: free dingbats @ font shop... Weiterlesen
Source: web.archive.org Here you can see one of the first google interfaces from 1998. related links: google @ web.archive.org... Weiterlesen
Source: atom.smasher.org Create your own win98 or winXP error message at atom smasher. related link: Atom Smasher Error Creator... Weiterlesen
Screenshot, Source: spiegel.de I found a nice german article about windows bob and the origin of Rover - the talking dog and other talking guides of windows ("Möchten Sie einen Brief schreiben?"). Rover "works" in the microsoft help system as a guide. Screenshot, Source: spiegel.de abstractMit einer revolutionären Benutzeroberfläche... Weiterlesen
Screenshot, Source: Cult of Mac Give your Sony Ericsson phone the look of OS X or Linux. You find some free OS X and Linux skins for several Sony Ericsson phones at: Skins @ Cult of mac... Weiterlesen
Screenshot, Source: cnet Microsoft's eHome division from One & Co. a San Francisco engineering and design company shows some potential concepts for the future design of the Media Center PC. This one looks a little bit like icecream or a drink. Extract:One & Co. partner Jonah Becker explained that... Weiterlesen
Screenshot, Source: www.eyeresponse.com EyeResonseTechnologies offers an noninvasive eye-tracking system wich means that the device requires no attachments to be worn by the user. The system uses a camera and infrared to recognize where the test person is looking. The system consists of a compact unit wich contains a camera... Weiterlesen
Screenshot, Source: synapse.vit.iit.nrc.ca Extract:Nouse™, which stands for 'Nose as Mouse' and is pronounced ['naus], is the NRC developed concept that yielded a solution to this previously unresolved problem. It is based on tracking the so-called convex-shape nose feature, which is the extremum of a convex surface of the nose... Weiterlesen
If you want to know what creativity is about ... here is a list of techniques ;-) Extract:Below are listed a number of creativity techniques to help with creative thinking. Like most tools these creativity techniques all have their good and bad points. I like to think of these creativity... Weiterlesen
Screenshot, Source: sapdesignguild You need some nice quotes from people of the UI and graphic design field to impress your friends & colleagues? Gerd Waloszek collects it on the sap designguild. related links: SAP Designguild - Quotes Found for You... Weiterlesen
Screenshot, Source: Soulwax Content is nothing, navigation is King :-) Its funny to try this fullscreen menu. But the navigation distract me from content. I don't know what this website is about. Maybe you find out. related links: Soulwax... Weiterlesen
Screenshot, Source: Freeset.ca Extract:The Human Locator analyses a camera feed in real time, sending detailed information about people's location, size, and movements. This data is then used as input to control projections, video, graphic animations, and sound. The Human Locator offers a complex analysis procedure and precise controls for... Weiterlesen
screenshot, zeichnungsgenerator.de Have a look a this. He loves and collects arrows. Related Links: Arrow weblog... Weiterlesen
Screenshot, Source: tag-der-arbeit.extrajetzt.de Funny little game about punks and their behaviour at the "Workers Day" (May, 1). Related Links: Pixel Punks... Weiterlesen
Screenshot, Source: www.lustigestories.de Windows Desktop Icons fighting. related link: open Iconwars in new window source: Iconwars @ lustigesstories.de... Weiterlesen
Screenshot, Source: www.bbc.co.uk Intel has developed a surfboard that lets surfers surf while surfing. The marketing manager of intel said: "It's all about giving people the freedom to get online when and where they want. (...) " Isn't it crazy? source: "Surf the net while surfing waves", BBC.CO.UK... Weiterlesen
My Pixel Roadmap for smart.com smart sells cars to designers. :-) They ask people to design pixel roadmaps for their smart-website. Nice Idea. Have a look at my Roadmap above. Related Links: roadmaps @ smart.com www.smart.com... Weiterlesen
SonyEriccon T610 Isn't it nice? I can't imagine that I nearly threw it out of the window yesterday. Its smooth metal surface and its bright colors made me think that this is a well thought-out product. But it is not. Because of its unusable buttons you need twice as... Weiterlesen
Long time ago a fellow student and I did an interview with Wolfgang Coy. Unfortunately I lost my tape of this interview when I had to reinstall my computer. When I surf the internet last week I found my interview on the website of my professor. He went to the... Weiterlesen
Cubit P4, Source: hoojum Website I have been looking for well designed PC Computer since I use computers. Now I have found a really nice barebone-case: The cubit p4. It looks and sounds a little bit like apple's cube. But I think this is the actual taste of consumers.... Weiterlesen
Plumb Design developed and published the thinkmap-based visual thesaurus. It s a beautiful way to discover a lot of words, meanings and relationships. Screenshot, Source: www.visualthesaurus.com Try this, especially the 3D-Mode. See: www.visualthesaurus.com... Weiterlesen
Bestimmt haben die Entwickler an offene Abfallbehälter, herumfliegende Plasteteile, wilde Tiere und spielende Kinder gedacht, als sie diesen Abfallbehälter mit einem sehr eigenwilligen Verschlussmechanismus versahen. Man stelle sich vor, man jongliert gerade mit einer Kiste Plastemüll, einem Beutel mit Flaschen und ein paar Zeitungen auf die Plastetonne zu. Wie gewohnt,... Weiterlesen
mein Lieblingsradio - das Tivoli Model One. Schön schlicht und mit tollem Klang. Ein besonders schönes Erlebnis ist die Einstellung eines Senders. Da hat man das Gefühl ein Präzisionsgerät zu bedienen. Weiter Infos: www.tivoliaudio.com... Weiterlesen
Ich war wal wieder bei meinem Lieblingschinesen und war ganz enttäuscht, als ich einem Bekannten den legendären BIM-BIM Kassenzettel zeigen wollte. Es gibt hier nun nur noch ordentliche Kassenzettel mit allem drum und dran. Das gute ist, daß man weiss was man bestellt hat ... und man braucht nicht mehr... Weiterlesen
Die codierten Nachrichten auf dem Kassenzettel vom Chinesen "BIM BIM" in Weimar: Na du Null wieder mal chinesisch, - macht 9 Plus - 5 ist gleich - 14 ... na dann Mahlzeit!... Weiterlesen
InformationDesign.org is managed by the same people who run the InfoDesign and InfoDesign-Cafe email discussion lists. We aim to turn this site into a reference hub for web-sites, organisations, conferences and other resources of interest to information designers, and have begun by providing the links on the page below. With... Weiterlesen
Mein schnurloses Telefon zu Hause war kaputt und ich mußte mich in den Telefon-Dschungel begeben und ein Neues suchen. Und ich habe eins gefunden. Das Eurix Style von DeTeWe. Es ist schön. Man erkennt sofort, auf welchen Knopf man drücken muss, wenn es klingelt. Außerdem nimmt es nicht selbsttätig ab,... Weiterlesen
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