Even though technology evolved at a crazy pace the last 100 years, the humble button has stayed at the center of it all. What is its past, its future? Why is it important? What does it say about the interaction between humans and technology? Pictures, stories, revelations, maybe movies.
@SXSW’10 by Bill DeRouchey, Ziba Design
I wanted to write down my thoughts upon reading the Smashing Magazine article on the gradual disappearance of Flash on the web. Along with the recent discussions rising from Apple’s moves on clearing Flash from the face of the earth, web and iDevices, it stimulated many of us to think if HTML5 can really replace Flash.
Without drilling into technical details, I think holistically:
Moritz Stefaner is a visualization artist, holding a B.Sc. in Cognitive Science and an M.A. in Interface Design. Currently, he is employed as a research assistant at FH Potsdam on the MACE project and work as a freelance information visualizer. His slides on data visualization are an amazing summary for where we are right now, what trends are out there, and how cool working with visualization is.
Eigenfactor is a non-commercial academic research project by the Bergstrom lab in the Department of Biology at the University of Washington. The goal is to map the structure of science. Together, we are developing different visualizations based on citation patterns between scientific journals.
taken from his website.
Nick Finck and Raina Van Cleave’s presentation slides from the SXSWi talk are up. Here’s a summary:
User experiences are your everyday experiences—anything from operating a car, to making a pot of coffee, to ordering a pair of shoes online. User experience is the result of your interactions with a product or service, specifically how it’s delivered and its related artifacts according to the design.
In this presentation Nick Finck and Raina Van Cleave will explore the ten characteristics of a great user experience. They will cover all aspects of user experience design such as user research, information architecture, information design, technical writing, interaction design, visual design, brand identity design, accessibly, usability and web analytics. Nick and Raina will also explain how following the ten commandments can boost your web sites, web app, or mobile app’s ease of use, appeal, conversion rates, and more.
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So, for a second, think about those days in the automotive industry of 1960s, when the oil prices were low while cars were an oil hog. And nobody was wondering to ask about CO2 emissions of a vehicle to a car dealer. Now that, climate change is on the news and green products are all the engineers and designers working on, it is ok to seek for the car with the highest mpg. That’s how we are becoming more aware of the sustainable design, and learning to be more sustainable as individuals.
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