Tag Archives: design

“What” vs. “So-What”

 

I have spent the past XX years working in traditional product development companies. I started my career designing cell phones (when we had quite different ideas about portability), then moved to the consulting world when the idea of having ID … Continue reading →

 

Seeking participants for paid research study about entertainment and why it matters to you

 

Artefact is conducting a study on fans of different forms of entertainment. We are interested in understanding the activities you do in anticipation of going to or watching an entertainment event; during the event itself; and afterwards to remember or … Continue reading →

 

Project Impact: IDEA Award and Design for the Majority

 

We’re very happy to announce that Artefact has won four International Design Excellence Awards (IDEAs) for 2010! A silver award went to Project Impact, an internal passion effort in collaboration with Carbon Design in which we created designs to influence … Continue reading →

 

Bending Sound – Natural Interaction for Digital Music Performance

 

I was at a concert recently and caught myself in a familiar train of observation: ‘What’s with that guy in the back? He does nothing but occasionally press single keys on a keyboard. He looks like he’s part of the … Continue reading →

 

Designing for Love

 

A dear friend of mine, Jen, signed up for match.com a few weeks ago. As she indulged me with her sometimes exciting, but more often painful accounts of her experiences, I began to sense that she wasn’t having much fun. … Continue reading →

 

A dialog about magazines: Popular Science

 

Among other things, Christopher Konrad and Martijn van Tilburg read magazines for Artefact. MvT: With all these companies trying to come up with the next big thing in print, it would be interesting to look at what they are concocting. … Continue reading →

 

ID Students

 

I attended RecruitID at the Institute of Design a couple years ago. It’s a recruiting event. Employers interview former and current students for employment. It’s where I met Gabe Biller. It’s also where I met Nikki Pfarr, our 2009 summer … Continue reading →

 

Tools for building a 3D UX

 

[tweetmeme]Finally the final part of the 3d blog. As I mentioned in the previous posts on 3d, there are very poor tools for creating great looking 3d user experiences. This article will not concern itself with the aesthetics of 3d … Continue reading →

 

designFAIL #1: Blue Sky vs. Buttoned Down

 

#designfail #designthinking [tweetmeme]Innovation, breakthroughs, leapfrogging, whatever you want to call it, is earned by carefully balancing the extremes. Ken Fry, design director, recently wrote an article for Fast Company about finding the best scenario to produce better innovation. Do you … Continue reading →

 

The Experience Imperative

 

#id #idsa #core77 #exp_imperative [tweetmeme]On the last day of this year’s IDSA conference in Miami, Rob and I shared a cab to the airport with Stuart Constantine, core77 co-founder. The three of us were recovering from an all night binge … Continue reading →