Every year, IxDA’s Interaction Awards assembles a diverse group of design practitioners from all around the world to select exemplary projects in six impact-based categories from among a community peer-reviewed …
It’s Not the Interface that Makes the Experience
Dave Malouf adds to the recent discussion on Experience Design with a Medium post titled – It’s not the interface that makes the experience. There has been a lot of …
A new banking App that Nudges you
HSBC are the first bank to provide an app that combines ‘nudge theory’ with customer data. The app alerts customers on their spending habits such as how much was spent …
Amazon relaunches Dash with an IOT Button
Amazon has launched a redesign of the original Dash (which was a scan and point/click device) with a button version that lets you order products with a press of a …
Enjoying the great talk by Ian Bach at IxD15
@IanBach – IanBa.ch – #IxD15 We discussed the IxD15 Ian Bach presentation last night (amongst others) at the IxDA London Movie night at the Wellcome Trust. Ian Bach @ixd15 talks …
Gallup blog series (2014) – The shifting landscapes for financial institutions
I revisit this 2014 blog post titled Looking Out for Customers’ Financial Well-Being Is Table Stakes for Banks and the blog series on the shifting landscapes for financial institutions. from …
Adding further meaning into the new Products we Design
Happy New Year everyone & Hello 2015. After a beautiful Xmas with family in the Lake District and a few weeks away. I start the new year catching up on …
Preserving expression, thinking & longevity within Design
Shane Hudson has written a nice article on 24 Ways which touches on an area I’ve been thinking a lot recently – preserving expression, longevity and thinking within Design. His …
Daniel Kahneman at TED on Experience vs. Memory
Daniel Kahneman, filmed at TED 2010 for his talk, The riddle of Experience vs. Memory. As designers, we often make informed decisions for inclusion (or exclusion of features, UI, content, etc) …
Google’s new checkbox reCaptcha
Google has re-introduced re-captcha, an alternative to the 2000 user dialogue challenge-response test used in computing and on the Web to determine whether or not the user is human. http://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro …
How comics & screens work together
Opertoon and Creative Applications Network have written about a recently launched website, TimeFraming: The Art of Comics on Screen – dedicated to exploring what comics can teach about communicating creatively …
Google’s Material design
Wired has written another post on Google’s Material Design, this time looking at the considerations within Interaction Design. Material design is a few things. It’s a makeover—a “sweeping, well-reasoned, and …
Mike Bostock on Scroll-based Interactions
Mike Bostock has written about 5 rules for effective scrolling within touch-based gestural, keyboard & other interactive storytelling and visualisations. Citing a few examples including the Apple Mac Pro site …
Mental Model considerations within the third world
Hassan Baggi has written an article on Tech Crunch titled The Challenge Of Connecting The Unconnected which resurfaces the discussions for considerations within design when thinking of Mental Models for …
Terms of Service – A graphic novel on Privacy & Big Data
Michael Keller and Josh Neufeld have created a Graphic Novel titled, Terms of Service: Understanding our Role in the World of Big Data, which charts the story of Privacy and …