10 people, 12 months, designers with no programming and programmers with no design welcome. Coolest topic around.
The iPhone app I’m creating uses barcode scanning technology as well. While these apps use it to help shoppers, we’re using it to facilitate learning. That’s one of my favorite parts about designing for mobile — there are so many ways to leverage the suite of tools in the phone’s constantly changing environment.
Christian Rohrer gives an enlightening comparison of various user research methods. Nielson peppers the article with useful links to his writeups on various usability and user research techniques.
As a student of environmental science, and one-time conservation researcher, it has always struck me that electric cars would just shift the use of fossil fuels from one source to another (albeit lessening them). Gore’s statement, that we need to make the energy we do use to fuel these cars green, as in solar, wind, etc., is a breath of fresh air in what seemed to me an emporor has no closthes situation.
Neri Oxman
She doesn’t believe biomimicry is a passing fad: “The biological world,” she says, “is displacing the machine as a general model of design.” (via Seedmagazine.com | Revolutionary Minds | Design & Architecture | Neri Oxman)
One of the projects from CHI 2008 that is closest to my heart.
Microsoft Research projects what computing will look like in 2020.
How they coordinate offline edits between different users should be interesting. Considering my dependence on Google Docs, let’s hope it’s not catastrophic.
