Interaction design

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...]

Everyone has the experience of not fully understanding a product? A parking meter, television or mobile phone. It happens to everyone, but why don’t we fully understand products at first glance? One possible explanation is the different ‘mental’ models of designers and users. [Continue reading...]

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...]

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...]

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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A movie shows the evolution of mobile phones from 1985 till today. The different phone models transform into each other chronologically. It is interesting to see how little the design has changed over time, especially the way of how we interact with these phones. [Continue reading...]

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...]

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...]

The ‘RIpple Faucet’ designed by Smith Newnam brings new interactions to faucets. The faucets that we are used to have to manipulators; hot and cold that also controls the flow of the water, or with a thermostat faucet, one for the temperature and one for the flow. The design eliminates this separation of controlling the flow and temperature, with one single movements both can be set. [Continue reading...]

What is actually the difference between interface and interaction design?

The term ‘interface design’ suggests that in web design the coding, users and how a message is relayed (interface) can be regarded separately. [Continue reading...]