This post is the third in a series of three posts exploring multitouch and multiuser design. Our company, Ideum, develops computer-based interactive exhibits for museums. The first post addresses user interaction and feedback, the second focuses on User Interface (UI) elements, objects and environme...

In this insightful blogpost Clive Grinyer, formerly designer a Orange, now at CISCO, reflects on his experience of customer experience design in the mobile industry. Some excerpts I enjoyed: “In the conventional industrial product development process at that time, my design specification was h...

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Het is een beetje een suffe naam voor een verders interessant product. Want voor slechts 4 dollar leest Pimp My News je alle items van je favoriete blogs voor op je iPhone. Nu kun je dus bijblijven tijdens het autorijden, treinen of  (mocht je er behoefte aan hebben) het sporten.  Okay, de compute...

This past week has seen a ton of hype that real-time search is different. That the content creation and behaviors expressed and implied are fundamentally new and exclusive to places like Twitter and mining this data has incredible potential. Having spent a decade in search and the last four ye...

Het is Web 2.0 wat de klok slaat. Vele auteurs overtuigen ons ervan dat je als organisatie niet meer meetelt als je ‘the social web’ niet optimaal weet in te zetten. Zelf doe ik er net zo hard aan mee met artikelen en trainingen over Web 2.0. Ik realiseer me echter steeds meer dat we [.....

Last Friday the WebKit team (makers of the engine in Apple’s Safari browser and iPhone), introduced a new CSS animation feature in the nightly browser builds. CSS animation allows Web designers to incorporate keyframe-based animated effects in a stylesheet: CSS Animations is one of the enhancement...

Yesterday morning I was lugging a suitcase homeward, still bleary from a red-eye flight from Vancouver, where I'd attended the interaction'09 conference. Although I felt like hell, clearly I looked like a giant of industry, or at least a man of reasonable means, as I was approached by a fellow who a...

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Imagine that you need a refresher on how to tie a tie. So, you decide to type [how to tie a tie] into the Google search box. Which of these results would you choose? Where did your eyes go first when you saw the results page? Did they go directly to the title of the first result? Did you first check...