The blog about interaction design and usability
Jun 17 2008
Have you ever collected images in nicely stacked piles of categories for inspiration? When you start designing and are looking for inspiration you are browsing through your images but you always can’t find that particular image you are searching for. Ianus Keller of the TU Delft developed ‘the Cabinet’ for his PHD to solve this problem. [Continue reading...]
Jun 05 2008
In earlier posts we wrote about the usability of one particular parking meter in the Netherlands and proposed two interface alternatives. After discussing both concepts one interface has been further developed. [Continue reading...]
Jun 04 2008
The interaction design company Whitevoid from Germany has developed what they call ‘flakes’. With many of these flakes they can visualize whole walls to create effects. [Continue reading...]
Jun 02 2008
Designer Mattias Andersson has designed two media cubes that control a radio, television and media player function on a flat screen. Easy to use? No, but it is fun!
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May 28 2008
Designer Junyi Heo has designed a digital pot for plants. Why? The pot automatically monitors the condition in the pot to provide optimal conditions for the plant. [Continue reading...]
May 28 2008
Meet the new solar panels of a small company called ‘SMIT’. Their products are still under development but has they have promising sustainable products, because it uses the combination of solar and wind energy. [Continue reading...]
May 27 2008
A while ago we wrote about the poor usability of parking meters. We now would like to share two alternatives for operating a parking meter. [Continue reading...]
May 26 2008
Although this design by Tamer Nakisci is already three years old, it is still actual this day. He won the design competition of Nokia with this concept phone. [Continue reading...]
May 02 2008
For his graduation project student Joris van Gelder designed a new concept for a buttonless remote control. The remote control for a television is operated by physical manipulation of the remote control. [Continue reading...]
Apr 14 2008
Microsoft has presented a new device, called the ‘Microsoft Surface’ and guess what it is? A coffee table, that should amaze the world, right? [Continue reading...]
