Commonplace objects are re-imagined. Retail receipts could make the most of the information systems that modern point-of-sales machines are plugged into. And “the humble receipt could be something like a paper “appâ€be valuable in small and playful ways.” nice idea.
“A lot of what we are doing is getting design out of the way.”
– Jonathan Ive
Well, Indeed a great concept, physical browsing designed for digital shopping. Solving the way to shop so people could enjoy their free time.
And the results are very positive about 10,287 consumers visited the online HOMEPLUS mall using smartphones. The number of new registered members rose by 76%, and on-line sales increased 130%.
Awesome, loved this idea. Card.io is the simple and secure way to accept credit cards in your mobile app.
Card.io is focused on solving a specific part of the mobile payments business — buying things with a credit card on the phone, whether it’s digital goods, like a song, or physical goods from a site like Amazon.
Rather than having to type in the credit card number, users just hold a credit card up to the phone’s camera, which automatically reads the card information and enters the appropriate data.
“When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.”
– R. Buckminster Fuller
ATMs were first introduced over 40 years ago and since then many features have been incrementally added to the machines, in order to fulfill the dream of a truly “automated teller”. Modern ATMs offer a wide range of banking transactions; nevertheless the actual interaction has remained largely untouched.
Have a look at the video to learn about the unique features of the envisioned self-service experience. It took 2 years of time and a team of committed companies to develop this ATM. Via IDEO
2020 Vision, A documentary on Future of TV, seeking the opinions of industry experts and pioneers exploring the future of the television platform, exploring how television will evolve over the next ten years.
The webisodes investigate the evolution of television and how this will impact audiences and advertisers in the future:
· How technology is changing the way we interact and engage with TV
· The power of the audience
· Future programming trends
· The impact of the changing landscape on advertisers
· What will TV look like in 2020?
A short presentation by Precious, outlining six design patterns for multi-screen experiences. The presentation outlines different ways to think about the relationships between multiple co-existent screens (which they’ve called Coherence, Synchronization, Screen Sharing, Device Shifting, Complementarity, Simultaneity). via smallsurfaces.
Have a look at this cool infographic from at Go-Globe which has summarized all the things that happen on the internet in every minute.
The Rimino concept is an E-paper mobile device with a user interface inspired by print posters. Historically, as technology has progressed, devices have become more conspicuous. Rimino challenges this trend and presents the alternative: technology that is more integrated and more sensitive to the human experience.
Rimino concept video represents a future that is envisioned to be more aligned with what we need and want as people instead of our needs and wants being dictated by technology.
Awesome work with great details.
Watch the above video to see a Flip phone which is based on a concept, a reflection on What it means to be creative. ?conceived by Kristian Ulrich Larsen.
Interesting concept.
Practitioners of mobile UX design often cite context as the biggest difference between designing for mobile experiences and other design spaces. But what does “the mobile context“ really mean?
Rachel Hinman Article on “De-Mystifying The Elusive Mobile Context” talk about Mobile experiences occur in diverse places and times, and under dynamic social conditions.
A very cool mobile app campaign from Fiat. The most interesting part of this is that by relying on existing signage to activate the campaign, this mobile app treats road signs like QR Codes. By capturing the signs with the app, users get information on various features of the Evo, the app is taking advantage of a huge potential set of calls to action that are already ubiquitous.
With a small budget Fiat managed to create their largest ever outdoor campaign with over 1,000,000 traffic signs being spotted on week one.
Get the inside scoop with Google’s newest Inside Search or go “Under the Hood†to explore the technology that powers your searches. Well wow 🙂
“Google announces “search by image” and other nifty things today, pretty amazing – upload, drag in an image or paste in an image URL, they analyze and give relevant search results.”
The new Financial Times have launched a new, faster, more complete web app for the iPad and iPhone which is available via your browser rather than from an app store.!
The new app has a number of benefits like:
– Web browser access – No download needed
– Automatic enhancements – No need to visit an app store for the latest version
– Reading offline – The latest edition is automatically stored for offline access
– Speed – Improved performance on most connections
– Greater range of content – Including video on iPhone
It employs a new Web technology standard called HTML5, which allows programmers to create a single application that can run on a variety of devices, including Apple’s iPhone and iPad, Google’s android phones system and the BlackBerry PlayBook, although the new app does not work on some versions of the devices.
