I hadn’t heard of BumpTop until this morning. They describe it as a fun, intuitive 3D desktop that keeps you organized and makes you more productive. Like a real desk, but better. Now with awesome mouse and multi-touch gestures!. Some nice ideas in here… especially for tablet computers.
“We moved from thinking of ourselves as designers to thinking of ourselves as design thinkers. We have a methodology that enables us to come up with a solution that nobody has before.” — David Kelley, Founder of Ideo
Read the full article at FastCompany
Microsoft Office Labs has posted a future vision montage of human-computer interfaces of tomorrow. I’m a complete sucker for this kind of stuff.
IDEO has posted the Human Centered Design Toolkit, available for download as two PDF files. Though positioned as a guide for NGOs and Social Enterprises, the methods described would work along many other design-related avenues.
Filmmaker Doug Pray has a new documentary Art & Copy showing in select cities. I’ll keep an eye out a Miracle 5, but more likely I’ll have to wait for it on Netflix.
The September edition of Wired includes some makeover designs for the craigslist site.
This post contains a brief video covering the myriad of iterations for the “Convert” iPhone app. It’s definitely worth a gander. Thanks for Mark Marsiglio for the tip.
This brief post by Jon Hicks about icon design contains a link to an incredibly useful and instructive PDF file of his presentation. Though there’s no audio, all 89 pages (18MB) are worth a peek.
Hartmut Esslinger, founder and former CEO of Frog Design offers a few sound bytes from his new book A Fine Line.
The “green” behind one spiral and the “blue” behind the other are exactly the same color. Interested in more? Here’s a talk by Al Seckel at TED on our mis-wired brains.