Design Thinking & Innovation - Tim Brown
Talk by Tim Brown of IDEO given at MIT.
Eames Lounge Chair Debut in 1956 on NBC
Interview with Charles & Ray Eames on the Arlene Francis “Home” show broadcast on the NBC television network in 1956. Neat time-lapse depiction of assembling the chair towards the end!
Portfolio: Dieter Rams
Wallpaper magazine assembled this gallery of work by designer Dieter Rams. Includes many of the iconic pieces he designed for Braun in the 60’s.
Jun Murakoshi Design
Stacked stools evoke sculpture, stored chairs double as a clever bookcase. Nice, simple design.
New Work: ‘Dairy Today’ - Pentagram
Pentagram’s striking redesign of the trade magazine Dairy Today. They certainly achieved their goal of making the cover memorable and visually impactful. I wonder what the farmers have to say about it!
22nd Amendment
The divided frame approach makes the placement of the type really hypnotic.
Filling Much Needed Holes - Don Norman
“How many times do the never-ending ethnographic studies coupled with ever-eager design groups lead to unwanted, unnecessary, overburdening, and environmentally insensitive products? How many times are these unmet needs best left unmet?”
Fallingwater
Beautifully done virtual fly through of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater. Makes me want to visit it. Wonder how precise a recreation it is - did he grab topo maps of the site?
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What is Design?
Entertaining video from Stanford Product Design student David Ngo
Typographics
Cheeky type animation, love the campy soundtrack. “Typography is what language looks like.”
2012: Stories From the Near Future
Videos from a conference put on by The New Yorker. Talks and interviews with Malcolm Gladwell, James Surowiecki, Will Wright, Craig Newmark, Yves Nehar, Zaha Hadid and more…
User Experience Quotes
Quite a collection of User Experience Design quotes…
John Wardle Architects - Projects
Melbourne based architecture firm with some neat projects.
Asus Bamboo Ecobook Computer
“All of the plastic in it is labeled and recyclable; it is lined with cardboard; there are no paints, sprays… used on its components. It is designed to be easily taken apart for self-service and easy upgrading of components… The bamboo is cute too.”
Forget the film, watch the titles
Nice collection of movie title sequences.
Designing Change - Venture philanthropy fund Acumen uses design methodologies to help solve social problems
Observing customers to uncover their unmet needs, creating prototypes of new products and services for them, iterating and improving until they work, looking for new business models-these are all the critical fundamentals of design that Acumen uses”
Jared Spool and UIE test the three-click rule
“Users weren’t any more satisfied with shorter clickstreams than they were with longer clickstreams. The satisfaction of users doesn’t depend on the number of clicks.”
i love gocco - a photoset on Flickr
Frickin’ awesome set of prints made using the gocco printing system. Makes me want to pick one up even if they are discontinued and semi-expensive to print with.
Bill Buxton on multi-touch systems
Buxton’s thoughts on the unique opportunities (and limitations) of multi-touch systems as well as a history leading up to the present.
Collection: Design Patterns
Flickr sets of various design patterns
BLDGBLOG in San Francisco - Saturday April 7th
A day of landscape and architecture talks at the California College of the Arts (SF Campus) 2:30 - 5:00 pm on Saturday April 7th, 2007.
The gentle art of selling yourself | Review | The Observer
“It is said that we are all three different people: the person we think we are (the one we have invented), the person other people think we are (the impression we make) and the person we think other people think we are (the one we fret about).”
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Subtraction: Pint-Sized Pictures
Must start sketching.
OXO, Remade in Japan
Article on the cultural insight necessary to bring OXO’s “Good Grips” products to Japan. They found they needed to redesign several products before being embraced by the market. Spatulas held differently, salad spinner became 35% smaller.
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IDEA Conference Blog - Audio and some slides
Awesome! Plenty to dig into here. The IDEA conference descibes itself as “a conference on designing complex information spaces of all kinds.”
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Hello
John is currently thinking and designing in San Francisco.
Projects
Message Muni
A simple and forgiving text messaging service for San Francisco Muni arrival times.
DSButtons.com
DS Buttons are an invitation to play.
Collaborators
Adam DuVander
of WifiPDX and Simplicity Rules fame.
Josh Heumann
Polaroid alchemist extraordinaire.
Sean Madden
The Pixelnomad.
Name Redacted
Qué mysterioso.
Tom Watson
Stays up late over at 110am.