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Watch Cyd Harrell’s “Remote Design Research” talk at IxDA | Interaction ‘10 Conference

Cyd Harrell's "Remote Design Research"
Cyd Harrell's "Remote Design Research"

Want to do design research cheaply and efficiently with participants anywhere in the world? (Of course.) Want to observe real users in their native technology environments, from the comfort of your own desk? (Who doesn’t?) But what software and hardware do you need, and will it actually work?Bolt|Peters’ Cyd Harrell covers the most powerful tools for un-moderated conceptual research, remote screen observation, participant communication, observer involvement, session recording, time-aware tasks, and real-time recruiting. Get the lowdown on UserVue, Acrobat Connect, GoTo Meeting, Loop11, OpenHallway, UserZoom, Optimal Sort, Ethnio, and more […]

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Design Innovation

Watch Marc Rettig’s “How to Change Complicated Stuff” talk at IxDA | Interaction ’09 Conference

Watch Marc Rettig's "How to Change Complicated Stuff" talk at IxDA | Interaction '09 Conference
Watch Marc Rettig's "How to Change Complicated Stuff" talk at IxDA | Interaction '09 Conference

In this talk Marc Rettig offers insights into the question “what is it like to actually achieve a meaningful, sustainable, positive difference in life?”, drawing lessons from a number of serious, heartfelt attempts to affect change. The work we have all done in recent decades has prepared us to take on much bigger challenges. The foundations of design remain powerfully effective. That said, there are ways in which “designing for change” requires additions to our inventory of methods, and transformations in the way we plan and conduct our work […]

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Consumer Behavior Design

Dan Saffer’s “Attention Awareness” Keynote at IxDA | Interaction ‘09 Conference

Dan Saffer
Dan Saffer

Dan Saffer calls out the Interaction Design community for allowing distracting topics to consume our attention, and for paying too little attention to “moonwalking bears,” the opportunities interaction designers can take advantage of in the near future […]

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Design

200.000 people to create “Primal Source” interactive performance

Specially commissioned by the City of Santa Monica, California, for Glow 08, Primal Source was an all-night performance/installation created by Haque, brought to life through the active participation of festival-goers (estimated at approx. 200,000 over the course of the night).

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Design

Robert Fabricant’s “Behavior is our Medium” keynote at IxDA | Interaction ‘09 Conference

Robert Fabricant
Robert Fabricant

Robert Fabricant talks about Interaction Design as a practice beyond just computing technology. He gives examples of Interaction Design as far back as ancient history, all the way to a humanitarian project underway today. He shows that Interaction Design’s primary medium is behavior, extending far past the high technology world into the realm of human behavior and relationships […]

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Design Innovation Software

Frantz Lasorne’s “Toys and Augmented Reality” video at ComputerLove

The project of Designer Frantz Lasorne combines the joys of virtual reality, and tangible toys. Using Augmented Reality Tangible User Interface via head-mounted glasses, and old toys, a new environment is created that allows childs to play new games.

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Design Innovation Software

Bruce Branit’s “World Builder” video

“A strange man builds a world using holographic tools for the woman he loves”. This award winning short was created by filmmaker Bruce Branit, widely known as the co-creator of 405. World Builder was shot in a single day followed by about 2 years of post production. Branit is the owner of Branit VFX based […]

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Design Innovation Software

“Built For Conversation: The Interaction Design of Social Media”, Will Evans’ talk at NYC IxDA Face-to-Face meeting

Social Media Networks, because they are built on the collective participation of individuals, can only be effectively guided by means of a researched and learned examination of social psychology. In this presentation, Will Evans discuss design patterns in social media site architecture and their impact on human behavior, and why interaction designers engaged in building social networking ecosystems must leverage sociology, social network analysis, and behavioral economics to ensure their social media site is Built for Conversation.

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China

Living in China: Taxi driver Zhou Senlin

Another great production from Daedalum Films, this one directed by Arnaud Kamphuis: There are over 45,000 taxi drivers in Shanghai. Zhou Senlin is one of them. Following him around the city, we learn more about a difficult profession many take for granted. Over his long shifts, Zhou tells us about his life as he observes and adapts to the metamorphosis of an entire city, bringing better opportunities for him and his family…