Spimes

Bruce Sterling talks on The Internet of Things: What is a Spime and why is it useful? This one relates to Everyware: Ubiquitous Computing lecture, although not as well as my previous post.

Emotional Design

A talk by Don Norman on the three ways good design makes you happy. Ties in pretty well with the emotional design lecture.

TED Talk

Thought this was pretty interesting talk by Dan Ariely. It is interesting how design can effect how we make decisions.

Real interface

Hi from Multitouch Barcelona on Vimeo.

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Apple buying out Twitter?

Hi all,


Check this out...

Can Apple benefit from the twitting going on?

Or, is it going to be a flop purchase.. ?

What do you think? ;)


Regards,
Aaron

On Engineering and Design: An Open Letter

Microsoft Research Principal Scientist Bill Buxton calls for engineers and user-experience designers to learn to appreciate one another

I mentioned Bill Buxton a few times in class this week. Here's an excellent piece by him on the need for engineers and designers to appreciate each others' expertise. If anyone is still wondering why I wanted project teams to have a mix of backgrounds and perspectives, here's great justification for it.

"Well-intentioned engineers often ask me how they can become designers, or how they can "do" design. A typical question might be something like this: "Can you please share guidelines for maximizing user experience while designing a UI? For instance: When should I use radio buttons instead of drop down bars [to minimize clicks] and so on?"

Read on...