I managed to squeeze in a visit to the HKU KMT faculty’s project market in Hilversum on thursday last week. It’s an annual presentation of work done for external clients by graduate students. I coached one of those projects, which was done for the Nokia Research Center. They did a good job of presenting a [...]
Cultuur investeert in innovatie voor de samenleving – Virtueel Platform (Dutch) Het meest frappante aan dit bericht over een verzameling inititiatieven gericht op het meer verbinden van de culturele sector met de wereld om haar heen is dat het woord "design" of "ontwerpen" niet één keer voor komt, terwijl ik denk dat dit discipline veel [...]
Rosenfeld Media – Playful Design Book Site A book about "creating game experiences in everyday interfaces". Something to keep an eye on. (tags: JohnFerrara books play games gamedesign userexperience ux interfaces design) Tinker it now! » New work: Hopper Invasion Some nice work by Tinker.it! involving hoppers that are inflated based on Twitter messages. (tags: [...]
I’m writing this in the morning on a train from Utrecht to Amsterdam. I’ll be making this trip more often the coming weeks, since I signed a contract with Layar on tuesday. I’ll be reinforcing their UX team, doing interaction design on existing and new parts of their service. As is often the case with [...]
YouTube – Paper Cakes Gameplay Trailer A puzzle game designed by HKU and USC students, nominated for an IGF. The project's secret origin is the second edition of This happened – Utrecht, which was sponsored by Wacom. We connected the company to the HKU, which lead to them commissioning this game. (tags: games play puzzles [...]
Pasta&Vinegar » Blog Archive » Material Beliefs: scientific research+design combinations Since I'm in the planning stages of a research project where some of the main collaborators (and client) are scientists, the book that Nicolas discusses here sound very interesting. (tags: materialbeliefs books research design science nicolasnova) YouTube – otamatone説明 Even though I don't speak a [...]
Augmented Reality Roundup on Pixelsumo It's easy to criticise AR; there are a lot of bad, gimmicky applications out there. It's harder to talk about what it is good for. Chris O'Shea rounds up a few AR projects that he finds useful or interesting. (tags: ar augmentedreality chrisoshea) Sensually Retro Karel Millenaar (game designer and [...]
In a recent post on the Edge blog – which, if you consider yourself a games designer, you absolutely must read – Matt Jones asks: “Why should pocket calculators be put on a pedestal, and not Peggle?” He writes about the need for games to be appreciated and critiqued as design objects. He points out [...]
Wattcher The Dutch Wattson, with industrial design by Marcel Wanders. I ordered one, to see if a device like this actually makes a difference for me. (tags: energy dutch consumption nl netherlands design environment sensors sustainability electricity) Graffiti Analysis (iPhone) – DustTag v1.0 on Vimeo Wonderful iPhone app, website and desktop app that allows you [...]
We (Marinka, Evert and I) wrapped up the Move It project on friday with great success. I spent the day in a theater watching 24 concept videos of new street sports. The one that scored the highest was also my favorite; a team sport that involves bouncing a ball off the sides of an alley, [...]
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