Watch Christina Wodtke’s “The Executioner’s Tale” talk at Interaction’14 | IxDA conference
Ideas are cheap. Execution is everything […]
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Designing Interactions / Experiences: The Design of Experiences
This is the 5th (fifth) lecture of the “Designing Interactions / Experiences” module I’m teaching at Köln International School of Design of the Cologne University of Applied Sciences, which I’m honored to give by invitation of Professor Philipp Heidkamp. In this lecture, we discuss the different design artifacts typically produced during the ideation stage […]
Watch Bill Buxton’s “Sketching Experiences” talk at the IIT’s Institute of Design Strategy Conference
Bill Buxton in this old — but still very relevant — talk advocates the need for global businesses to explore how design and design thinking can provide them with high-level, strategic value and competitive advantage […]
Watch Cindy Chastain’s “the UX Professional as Business Consultant” talk at Interaction’13 | IxDA
We talk a lot about cross-channel experiences and how to address these new challenges as designers, but what about using our design skills, our hard won knowledge and empathy for customers to help companies...
Listen to Alvin Toffler’s “Possibilities, Not Predictions” interview for NPR
Alvin Toffler’s talks about the 40th anniversary of the book on the effect of rapid change holds insights into the present […]
Announcing the 2014 Interaction Awards Finalists/ IxD Awards
Three weeks ago, IxDA’s 2014 Interaction Awards global Jury met at Fabrica in Italy to review all of the shortlisted entries and choose the best examples of Interaction Design for 2014. IxDA is pleased to announce the finalists of the 2014 Interaction Awards, all of whom will be celebrated at Interaction14 in Amsterdam 5-8 of February, 2014 […]
Watch William Ury’s ‘The walk from “no” to “yes” ‘ talk at TED
William Ury, author of “Getting to Yes,” offers an elegant, simple (but not easy) way to create agreement in even the most difficult situations — from family conflict to, perhaps, the Middle East. (Filmed at TEDxMidWest.) […]
IxDA’s 2014 Interaction Awards Shortlist announced
The Interaction Design Association (IxDA) has just announced the shortlist of entries for the 2014 Interaction Awards. Out of the 350 projects submitted from around the world, 91 projects from 18 countries have been elevated for consideration […]
Watch Jer Thorp’s “Data & Human Experience” keynote at Interaction’13 | IxDA Conference
In this talk, Jer Thorp discusses the intersection between data and human experience. He’ll go into detail a number of projects involving diverse data sets, including the 770,000 words in the Shakespeare Folio, astronomical measurements from NASA, text from nightly news broadcasts, and real-time air traffic reports […]
Watch Thomas Friedman’s “The World is Flat 3.0” talk at MIT OpenCourseWare
Back in 2000, Tom Friedman recounts, the world began to shrink and flatten, under the influence of digital interconnectivity. Elaborating on his World is Flat thesis, Friedman describes how this new global order puts creative, entrepreneurial individuals in the driver’s seat, and poses distinct new challenges and opportunities. The digital platform that connects Bangalore, Boston and Beijing enables users from any of these places to “plug, play, compete, connect and collaborate,” and is changing everything, says Friedman […]
