Erik Flowers predicts what we can expect from service design over the next 18 months. The medium of your brand will become irrelevant. Touchpoint design will not be enough to …
How a team completed a design sprint in 3 days
Michael Sueoka, writes on the InVision blog about how their team completed a 5-day design sprint in 3-days. We couldn’t allocate an entire 5 days to this, so we had …
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 …
How the new Skype Universal Translator works
Skype have written a blog post explaining how their Skype Translator works which is currently available as a preview-release for the Spanish language. The blog includes a short Behind the …
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) …
DesignX: A Future Path for Design
The Design Collaborative* have written an Essay on DesignX – a new, evidence-based approach for addressing many of the complex and serious problems facing the world today. It adds to and …
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 …
IOS8 GUI Sketch 3 Templates
The very useful Teehan+Lax IOS8 Sketch 3 Templates have been updated http://www.teehanlax.com/tools/iphone-sketch-app 2013 Tools for the iPad (including PSD) http://www.teehanlax.com/tools/ipad
Jason Santa Maria on Sketching & Generating Ideas
Jason Santa Maria has written a wonderful article post on Sketching, and making Ideas stronger. I want a big sprawling mass of ugly ideas because it helps get past the …
Universal Dimensions for evaluating Social & Physical spaces
Today I revisited the Universal Dimensions described in the Kevin Lynch book Good City Form for evaluating Social & Physical spaces. If you haven’t heard of this book, I totally …