quiet design
TagMore to see as smartphone cameras slowdown
Slowing down can help one see the previously unseen. This is as much a philosophical as a practical observation. In many ways, the two see..
A more natural interface for weather
The Weather Cube, designed by Yu Zhuang and featured in this post by Yanko Design, is an alternative interface for meteorological informat..
Self-serving machines and the human antidote
It was seven o’clock in the morning. We were four self-service screens and four user experience failures into our journey.
It didn’t he..
Antisocial technology
Terminal C at Newark Airport is home to one of the least sociable deployments of technology I’ve come across. Pairs of vertically mounted..
- Pathway #13: Quiet design
- Pathway #7: Expressing sustainability in mobile user experience design
- Podcast
Design Talk 40. Crap Futures with James Auger & Julian Hanna
James Auger and Julian Hanna, the duo behind the Crap Futures blog, talk to Marek Pawlowski about what motivated them to take on a provoca..
The lower the sense of commitment, the more likely a user will experiment with new features
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Principles
Leverage changes in UI ambience to convey non-urgent information
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- Opinions, ideas and new thinking
- Pathway #10: Smart hardware additions
- Pathway #12: Brain processes
- Pathway #13: Quiet design
- Pathway #14: Context
- Pathway #2: Multi-screens from a single device
- Pathway #6: Thinking outside the slate
Google’s wandering, inevitable path to ambient augmentation
Would you like to explore a tangent? It concerns chickens, antiques and the future of ambient augmentation.
About twice a week I like to ..