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Listen to Kevin Wickā€™s ā€œGoing Interactive: How we stopped making static wireframes and started making prototypesā€ talk at IA Summit 2010

Looking for more effective ways to communicate your research and designs? Kevin Wick says one way to do that is to stop creating static, paper-based wireframes and to start creating browser-based, interactive prototypes […]

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Design Innovation Readings

Watch Tim Wood’s “Lo-fi: Sketchbook Techniques for Interaction Designers” talk at IxDA | Interaction ’10 Conference

Tim Wood reviews practical drawing and sketchbook techniques that can serve as a cornerstone to the interaction design process. The concept of ā€˜drawing as problem solvingā€™ will be introduced through case studies and real-world interaction design that demonstrate the efficiencies to be gained through the use of these techniques […]

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Design Software

Autodesk Announces New Design Software Solutions for Education Market

Autodesk has unveiled eight industry-oriented software suites to help students learn core design and engineering skills […]

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Design Information Technology Software

Autodesk Assistance Program Extended Through 2010

Autodesk is extending the Autodesk Assistance Program through the 2010 calendar year and to military veterans […]

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Design Information Technology Software

Watch Alvin Woon’s “Advanced techniques for designing web app interfaces” presentation

Plurk’s Design Lead Alvin Woon Design compares and contrasts the differences of designing a web application, not a promotion/marketing website, then recommends some techniques […]

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Design Information Technology Software

Listen to Fred Beecherā€™s ā€œIntegrating Effective Prototyping into Your Design Processā€ talk at IA Summit 2009

Senior User Experience Consultant Fred Beecher shows his audience how to determine what, for your particular situation, is the most effective way to use prototyping to improve the user experience of your site or software […]

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Design Innovation Software

Watch Camille Moussette’s “Sketching Multimodal and Haptic Interfaces” talk at IxDA | Interaction ’09 Conference

In this presentation, Camille Moussette explores the opportunities and challenges related to developing new multimodal interfaces specifically based on the touch sense. It will present various methods, techniques, tools and processes that interaction designers can use to assess, sketch, create and evaluate dynamic haptic and multimodal interfaces […]

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Design Information Technology Innovation Software

Autodesk Unveils Inventor Fusion Technology to Help Engineers Speed Time to Market

Autodesk Inventor Fusion is new Digital Prototyping technology that unites the power and control of parametric, history-based modeling with the speed and ease of use of direct, history-free modeling, enabling users to choose the modeling approach that is right for the task at hand. The technology preview is the first step in delivering the full vision of Inventor Fusion to engineers everywhere […]

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Economics Software

Autodesk Adds Significant New Benefits to Assistance Program

With more than 4,700 participants in the Autodesk Assistance Program and more than 5,400 product downloads to date, Autodesk is announcing significant additions to the program announced six weeks ago. The program was designed to help displaced workers in the architecture, engineering, design and manufacturing industries maintain and develop their 3D design technology skills and help improve their employability in a down economy […]

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Design

Autodesk Brings Historic Designs to Life in New Discovery Channel Series “Doing DaVinci”

The team of 21st century builders, engineers and historians tasked with recreating Leonardo daVinci’s inventions for the new Discovery Channel series Doing daVinci are using Autodesk Inventor 3D design and engineering software to virtually test the renowned inventor’s designs.