We are all living through the early stages of an extraordinary revolution. Connecting not just people but communities, systems and intelligence. Enabling us to collaborate, innovate, sustain, learn, care and participate. When one person connects their life changes. With everything connected our world changes. A connected world is just the beginning.
Watch the above video campaign of Ericsson’s vision for the Networked Society.
Prototyping for PC experiences is a luxury, prototyping for mobile experiences is essential.! Here are a few of the prototyping methods by Rachel Hinman on mobile interaction design projects.
“So you built an app. People can take your brand anywhere they go. But do they? And where do you go from here? Have apps delivered the value you expected from mobile? “
An article worth reading by punchcut if you don’t just want to join a App Race. It’s important to understand holistic mobile strategy beyond a one-off killer app.
“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.â€Â – Steve Jobs
In this Video John Jay talks about his creative process and why you should never adhere to someone’s particular terms or be put into a specific silo.
“Inspiration is about feeling the personal vibe of people who live a way you don’t, do things that you can’t and share what you don’t know, For any creative person, it is our job to be inspired.”
The Internet has changed the way we live—that’s obvious. But what we think people forget is how big and important the worldwide web really is. Do you know how much time people spend on the Internet every day? The Internet is a strange, huge beast. It is getting bigger, faster and more mobile each day.
This is the face of the Internet now.!
Simon Sinek’s recent talk discusses the importance of trust, authenticity, and meaning. Sinek argues that as individuals and companies, everything that we say and do is a symbol of who we are. And it is only when we communicate our beliefs authentically that we can attract others to our cause, and form the bonds that will empower us to achieve truly great things.
“We’re not good at everything, we’re not good by ourselves,” says Simon Sinek. Our ability to build trust and relationships is the key to our survival as a race, and to thriving as ideamakers.
Designing for emerging markets talks about the issues involved in entering emerging markets. In this animation Apala Lahiri Chavan goes through several processes of design innovations and calls attention to the importance of cross-cultural challenges.
The central premise of user centred design is that the best designed products and services result from understanding the needs of the people who will use them. —Design Council
Design is a way of life, a point of view. It involves the whole complex of visual communications: talent, creative ability, manual skill, and technical knowledge. Aesthetics and economics, technology and psychology are intrinsically related to the process.â€
– Paul Rand Graphis, 1981
“The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore” is like a well-written bedtime story for kids.
Awesome work, with great details.
Nice concept, great content pairing.
The Importance of making clients part of the design process. Nice presentation.
Why collaborate with your clients? Because when clients and designers work together as equals towards a shared goal, they can feel like they’re part of the design process. Facilitated collaboration can inform and inspire your design team, so you are empowered to create great design work. It can also create alignment, which contributes to ongoing trust and ownership from all parties involved. via Frog
I saw this quite long back and whenever i see it again, this visualization always fascinates me.
Left brain: I am the left brain. I am a scientist. A mathematician. I love the familiar. I categorize. I am accurate. Linear. Analytical. Strategic. I am practical. Always in control. A master of words and language. Realistic. I calculate equations and play with numbers. I am order. I am logic. I know exactly who I am.
Right brain: I am the right brain. I am creativity. A free spirit. I am passion. Yearning. Sensuality. I am the sound of roaring laughter. I am taste. The feeling of sand beneath bare feat. I am movement. Vivid colors. I am the urge to paint on an empty canvas. I am boundless imagination. Art. Poetry. I sense. I feel. I am everything I wanted to be.