"Interfaces that can tap into emotion effectively not only create a broad fan base, they build an army of evangelists."
— Designing for Emotion
"For behaviorally informed design, first isolate the behavior that needs to be changed. Differentiate between intention failures and follow-through failures. How can behavioral insights be integrated into effective design and policy solutions?"
— Kaltura
"The philosophy that drives the majority of contemporary UIs is called skeuomorphism. Derived from the Greek words Skeuos, meaning vessel or tool, and morph, meaning shape, a skeuomorph is, according to the Oxford Dictionary, a ‘derivative object that retains ornamental design cues to a structure that was necessary in the original.’"
While there are some pretty impressive multi-touch interfaces out there, turning the surface of a plant (yes, you read that correctly), into a multi-touch interface is definitely something quite unique and fresh. The generative visualizations from the interactions are beautiful; and while no particularly practical applications have been developed yet, this concept from Disney research definitely opens the door for other unique interfaces.
Toast Messenger by Sasha Tseng
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Pure brilliance. Beautiful, sophisticated design that gathers nature and gently showcases it through a stunningly simple, non-distracting, and elegant form. I’m in love.
Dagný Bjarnadóttir: “For me, good design usually grows out of a deep understanding of the subject and intuition – along with a feeling for the use of materials and aesthetics. Sometimes even psychology plays a part.” Furnibloom: The main goal of the design is to combine stylish and simple furniture with multiple functionality. You can make it your own based on your taste and personal style. The furniture is well suited for growing flowers and herbs or for decorating purposes. The design’s flexibility offers the possibility of developing FurniBloom into a furniture line. FurniBloom is a great option both for big gardens or a small balcony where you can grow your own herbs, vegetables and flowers – and have a seating place as well.
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“The “world’s first” deformable tactile surface capable of creating dynamic physical buttons that users can actually see and feel in advance of entering data into the device, Tactus uses microfluidic technology to create physical buttons that rise from the touchscreen to give users the experience or feeling of operating a physical keyboard. When no longer needed, the buttons recede back into the touchscreen, leaving no trace of their presence. The Tactile Layer panel is a completely flat, transparent, dynamic surface that adds no extra thickness to the standard touchscreen display since it replaces a layer of the already existing display stack.” -TG Daily
Whoa, a dynamic, physically transforming surface? Incredible implications here - imagine having tables, walls, or doors with “hidden” buttons that can emerge from the surface when called upon.
"The easiest mistake to make in interface design is to focus on the interface before you focus on the task that the interface is supposed to support. Storyboarding is all about tasks. Storyboards should illustrate a goal. Storyboards should discuss the setting (the people involved, the environment) and what task they are trying to do. Next, it should show the sequence - what role the user interace plays in helping them to get their goal achieved. What leads someone to use the app? Finally, how does that connect to them achieving their goals? Storyboards enable you to think through how you might support a task without committing to a specific user interface."
— Prototypes & Mock-Ups - Coursera HCI
“Here’s what happens when a leading media studio takes on a hospital waiting room.
If you’ve spent any time in a hospital, you know that the environment doesn’t feel so conducive to healing. Here you have someone who’s very sick, and they’re surrounded by green lighting, constant beeping, the stench of ammonia, and bright biohazard signs. For an adult it’s horrible, but for a child? It must be horrifying.
Yet at Montreal’s CHU Ste-Justine Hospital, there’s at least one spot where being in the hospital isn’t so bad. It’s a colorful, interactive music wall by Moment Factory—a multimedia company that collaborates with artists like Madonna, MIA, and Arcade Fire. Here, without any ability to read sheet music, a child can draw shapes on a projected screen that will play back as a melody.” via Fast Co Design ]
