"A redesign of a site does not make it impossible to believe the last version was a better version. It just makes it possible to not believe the current version is the best possible version."
(via soxiam)
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Focus on the Idea, Not the Instrument | Conceptology →
Concept design Have a look at a few Facebook pages advertising a brand or a product. Look at not just the ad content on the pages, but the comments and the likes. How many pages do you find where a lion’s share of the comments seem to have come from the agency people who either directly worked on the campaign themselves, or are somehow connected to the campaign? Same with the likes. Who’s recommending the page? If you are, or were, an average consumer yourself, do you think you would find the page engaging? Would you actually want to vote, comment, or like on the page? (…)
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The poking machine →
The Poking Machine is a wearable device that pokes you physically whenever you are poked on Facebook, no matter where you are.
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The Halo Effect →
The halo effect is a cognitive bias that involves one trait influencing others in one’s judgement of another person or object.
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"Possédons-nous vraiment les livres que nous contemplons dans une bibliothèque ? Nous contemplons plutôt le temps que nous allons passer à les lire. Nous nous donnons l’illusion virtuelle que nous sommes immortels grâce aux livres. Finalement, une bibliothèque est consolante car elle nous promet du temps."
Jacques Attali in CB News (janvier 2012)
(Source : iloveyougeorgiahubley)
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"To create humane digital services that engage their users and “touch” people, you need to combine creative vision with technical prowess, backed up by business rationale. This requires a group of people working together that bring a diverse but complementary range of skills to the table: storytelling, business analysis, technical strategy, design (interaction and visual), user research, and psychology, among others."
Rob Le Quesne in UX Magazine.
Breaking Through the Glass: Designing Digital Experiences Beyond the Screen -
How Blind People Use The ATM (by BlindFilmCritic)
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Extraordinary Design Considerations for Medical Devices (by Kicker Studio)
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Found in “Design as art” by Bruno Munari, Penguin, 2009
“Go into the kitchen and open the first drawer you come to and the odds are you’ll find the wooden spoon that is used to stir soups and sauces. If this spoon is of a certain age you will see it no longer has its original shape. It has changed, as if a piece had been cut obliquely off the end. Part of it is missing.
We have (though not all at once, of course) eaten the missing part mixed up in our soup. It is continual use that has given the spoon its new shape. This is the shape the saucepan has made by constantly rubbing away at the spoon until it eventually shows us what shape a spoon for stirring soup should be.
This is a case (and there are many) in which a designer can learn what shape to make the object he is designing, especially if it is a thing destined to come into frequent contact with other things, and which therefore takes it particular shape according to the use to which it is put.
“(via Pasta&Vinegar » Blog Archive » Get inspiration from artifacts)
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