industrialdesign

Kinetic Design (Core77 article)

for all you hardware interaction designers, this bit was just an
amazing piece on Core77 about Kinetic Design. I think some of us
might think this is just "interaction design", but to me the
discussion of aesthetics of motion really touches my heart string in
a wondrous way. There was this Pratt ID student I met a couple of
years ago who did his thesis on this, and it also really resonated
with me back then.

Microsoft's Next-Gen PC Winners Announced

<http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2007/
may07/05-15NextGenPC.mspx>

“This year’s competition winners have envisioned a brave new world of
computing,” says Kevin Eagan, general manager of Microsoft’s Original
Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) Marketing Group.

No Ideas But In Things

I'd been waiting until I had a fuller library of stuff, but since
Core 77 outed it yesterday, I should announce it here.

Inspired by Andy Clarke's talk at Web Directions about drawing
inspiration from the physical world, I've started a collection of
control panels, buttons, dials, handles, animations, icons, etc. It's
meant to be a source of new/old ideas for interaction designers.