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Our 2-year-olds can use it . It's a brilliant entertainment device . But what sort of business potential does the iPad offer? Several companies have shown interest in mobile payment systems from startups like Square to mega-corporations li ...

Article - Nate Bolt, Brynn Evans, Cyd Harrell - June 10, 2010 - 26 comments - 0 attachments

Last year, I gave a presentation at MeshU that took a behind the scenes look at how we arrive at design decisions. I've since taken clients through variations of this presentation, which is always evolving because it corresponds to such a per ...

Article - David Gillis - April 27, 2010 - 6 comments - 0 attachments

Title 2:  What Pixar and Apple Can Teach Us About Infusing Products With Personality Quick: which operating system do you think is happier, Windows or OS X? Even if you' ...

Article - Alex Faaborg - April 14, 2010 - 15 comments - 0 attachments

Communicating thoughts and ideas can be one of the biggest challenges in an industry that relies so heavily on visual interpretation. If you’re working on an idea by yourself, with a colleague or a client, it’s one thing to see an idea in your mind and ...

Article - Juan Sanchez - April 06, 2010 - 8 comments - 0 attachments

At 4Point we have a refrigerator. It's pretty fancy, with double doors, an icemaker, and a water filtration system. It beeps at you if you leave it open too long. Inside, you'll find all kinds of beverages: fruit juices, milk, mineral water (sparkli ...

Article - Taylor Bastien - April 05, 2010 - 5 comments - 0 attachments

Redesigning the Bloomberg Terminal would be any interface designer's dream. There's obviously much room for improvement since the interface hasn't changed for a long time, and the personas using it are quite easy to define. But the complexity an ...

Article - Dominique Leca - March 24, 2010 - 72 comments - 0 attachments

The general public seems to be kind of shallow when it comes to user interfaces. They think "prettier = better." A couple of gradients here, some fancy translucent buttons and there you go: an interface that's just overflowing with awesomeness. ...

Article - Max Steenbergen - March 26, 2010 - 20 comments - 0 attachments

Emergent Themes in Designing for Inclusive Product Experiences Products fail us every day. For some reason, though, we tend to blame ourselves for those failures—for our inability to perform adequately, our lack of understanding, and, sometimes, our ...

Article - Mark Baskinger - March 22, 2010 - 1 comment - 0 attachments

  Am I going to ditch my iPhone for a Puma phone ? No. I am, however, really impressed by how Puma has chosen to enter a space that’s already way over-saturated. In an industry full of me-too-ing, they clearly recogni ...

Article - Alex Rainert - March 05, 2010 - 7 comments - 0 attachments

More than a year ago I very proudly announced that Boxee , the much-loved social media center software company, had hired me as the user experience designer for their beta . In the five months that I worked with them, I conducted user interviews ...

Article - Whitney Hess - March 02, 2010 - 11 comments - 0 attachments