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Design and the Elastic Mind

I wish I could make it to New York to see the Design and the Elastic Mind exhibition at MOMA. It sounds like it allows you to see or experience many of the objects and interfaces that I’ve blogged about over the last few years, and many that I haven’t...

Published 03-06-2008 10:25 AM by rb.work

Filed under: Design, Research, Projects, Microsoft, Press

Green objects

There’s an irony in green product design that we may just never get passed since you need to purchase new stuff, and creatively recycle/throw out the thing you’re replacing, in order to follow your ethics. Sometimes it just feels better to...

Published 03-13-2008 1:23 PM by rb.work

Filed under: Design, Interaction

Microsoft Design Expo 2008

I’ve been really impressed by the student output from the design courses at Dundee University in Scotland. I saw work from the Innovative Product Design (IPD) course at New Designers a couple of years ago and was really struck by the fact that they...

Published 07-30-2008 11:16 AM by rb.work

Filed under: Design, Interaction, Events

Braun vs. Apple - a little respect

I have no problem with this article drawing some close comparisons between the work of Dieter Rams and the work of Jonathan Ive at Apple. It’s not blatant plagiarism, and the calculator in the iPhone already demonstrated that the respect was there...

Published 01-18-2008 6:56 AM by rb.work

Filed under: Design, Heroes

Forcing ideas

I’m a big admirer of the 100 Chairs in 100 days project as an example of forcing ideas, and doing more with less. Read More...

Published 01-27-2008 11:23 AM by rb.work

Filed under: Design

3 blogs down to two

I’m finding it hard to separate the design/architecture items I want to blog on my main blog from the design items I want to blog here, so I’ve decided that it’s fine to post Microsoft related stuff to my main blog. I’ve moved...

Published 08-07-2008 1:28 PM by rb.work

Filed under: Uncategorized

Ask E.T.: Interface design and the iPhone

Edward Tufte has posted a video that extols and criticises the iPhone UI design. He’s clearly a fan, and having played with the device I can understand why. I thought his critique on the Stock widget was particularly interesting, though, calling...

Published 01-24-2008 6:40 AM by rb.work

Filed under: Design, Interaction

Hacking hardware and software

I’ve been buying a lot of “hack friendly” books recently, that give a dangerously semi-technical person like me a lot of tools and ideas for hacking together software visualizations, as well as hardware and software interfaces. Although...

Published 11-07-2007 4:39 AM by rb.work

Filed under: Technology

Tag Galaxy

I’m a bit of a 3D UI sceptic. I just have some history in the area, and it’s left me thinking that 3D interactions are often cumbersome and rarely have a life beyond what their cool factor gives them. Case in point is this Tag Galaxy search...

Published 05-28-2008 3:50 AM by rb.work

Filed under: Design, visualization, Interaction

Visualization overview

Feeling like a cross between a Tufte lecture and a flick through any recent book on Processing or Flash masters, this article presents a good overview of the job and direction of ancient and modern data visualization. “In his introductory text Read...

Published 01-18-2008 5:46 AM by rb.work

Filed under: Design, visualization

Microsoft Research SenseCam

I work in the Socio-Digital Systems group, which is part of Computer Mediated Living (CML). One of our peer groups in CML is the Sensors and Devices (SenDev) group, which is the home for SenseCam, a project that has had a lot of attention since its inception...

Published 11-27-2007 9:51 AM by rb.work

Filed under: Research, Projects, Microsoft, Technology

HCI 2020 report launched

A year ago Abi and Richard helped organize a gathering of 40+ “luminaries” from the field of Human-Computer Interaction to debate how the relationship between people and technology might change in the next decade. That event has resulted in...

Published 04-02-2008 2:47 PM by rb.work

Filed under: Microsoft, Press, Interaction, Events

Paul Rand

Grumpy old curmudgeon, aka design god (Monoscope) Some great Paul Rand quotes. “Don’t try and be original, just try to be good”. “To do things with quality. I think this is what in a big sense aesthetics means”. “Order...

Published 10-25-2007 9:29 AM by rb.work

Filed under: Design, Heroes

Microsoft Surges After Sales, Profit Beat Estimates

Woo Hoo!! I’ll probably regret being enthused, but what the hell! “This is a big deal,” said Jane Snorek, a Minneapolis- based analyst at First American Funds, which manages $55 billion in assets, including Microsoft shares. “It...

Published 10-26-2007 9:16 AM by rb.work

Filed under: Uncategorized

10 Commandments

Here’s a list and explanation of Dieter Rams’ 10 Commandments for good design. Vitsœ | About / Good design… Read More...

Published 11-09-2007 11:44 AM by rb.work

Filed under: Heroes

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