Tag Archives: prototyping

The 10 square feet factory.

 

A couple of weeks ago the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) held their annual conference in Portland with a theme of DIY Design, threat or opportunity. I was invited to speak at the conference and I gave a talk … Continue reading →

 

Jobs be damned: Flash on the iPad! (Silverlight, too!)

 

As the row between Apple and Adobe over Flash on the iPhone OS continued to grow, we thought circumventing the issue entirely might be disruptive. If we could seamlessly deliver a site that uses Flash in Mobile Safari without installing … Continue reading →

 

Artefact Animator – Live and Open Source for Silverlight and WPF

 

[tweetmeme] Artefact Animator provides an easy to use framework for procedural time-based animations in Silverlight and WPF. Download the latest version from http://artefactanimator.codeplex.com/. Inspired by the Flash community and forged out of frustration, Artefact Animator brings to WPF and Silverlight … Continue reading →

 

Musical Forest: A Multitouch Experience for Kids

 

Musical Forest: An Artefact Experiment from Artefact on Vimeo. Us Artefactians regularly dabble in new user experiences outside of our daily client work that explore areas such as unfamiliar target audiences, new technologies, new UI mechanisms, or themes that spark … Continue reading →

 

A Future Retail Shopping Experience

 

If you haven’t already been checkin’ up on us, then you might have missed a couple of updates on how things are doing with our internal project focusing on retail shopping experiences. We’ve wrapped up our research and concepting and … Continue reading →

 

The A-List

 

Forrester’s 2008 Customer Experience Rankings The #1 winner is: Barnes & Noble! This is great information if you were ever curious about leading brands in their respective industries. Check it out! Adobe Experimenting With Semantic Autogeneration of 3D Worlds This … Continue reading →

 

A Platform for Cultivating Ideas

 

We were recently visited by a student at University of Washington’s School of Art‘s Design Studies program, Timothy Damon, who is currrently engaged in a design dialogue around user experience design methodologies and how they are put into practice. He’s … Continue reading →

 

The A-List

 

Apologies for getting this out so late! It has been a busy Monday morning. At least there’s still the rest of the week to enjoy! Don’t forget, if you haven’t already, go out and vote! Make sure you know where … Continue reading →

 

Sketching in the Digital Age

 

I was cleaning my desk the other day (something I should probably do more often) and it suddenly struck me just how many random little sketches and diagrams were scattered around my tabletop. There were stacks and stacks of paper … Continue reading →

 

Ringo Interface: Augmented Reality Using Holographic Projection

 

Ivan Tihienko had a vision where the world was exactly like Second Life. Actually, his vision was really about designing a new interface that went beyond on screen displays. His final project at the Bezalel academy of Arts and Design … Continue reading →