Industry (aerospace, telecom, defense, automotive, consumer electronics, etc.) has developed a growing interest in Human-Computer Interaction. They see it as being powerful with numerous features but that does not ensure a product will be successful at all without having a clear usage understanding by...
Being the dean of a design school is no easy job today. Design schools are struggling to serve three masters: the student, the industry and society. The last one is a new one as generally designers have now come to a consensus that designs for social change is a part of the design agenda. With limited...
I knew that James Cameron’s ‘Avatar’ movie had a massive hype train behind it, but I just wasn’t that interested in it. I had finally watched the entire trailer a mere day before it was due to be released in select 3D capable theatres (around 2200 total) and thought that while...
Who would have thought that a computer case would be the object of so much design attention. However, the Thermaltake Level10 is no ordinary computer case. Rather, just about every single element of it is quite extraordinary. Long gone are the days of simple beige cases that are a rat’s nest...
It is always amazing to look upon a final product out in the market, and know that at one point, it was nothing more than an idea in someones’ head (or multiple persons’ heads). At some point that idea has to be taken into the ‘real world’ of three dimensions, and that is...
Knoll recently released the ‘Generation‘, the latest in its’ line of task seating and it is quite a breath of fresh air into a fairly traditional genre of design. The marketing slogan behind the chair, and if one is to believe their website, the design mantra as well, is that people...
There is something profoundly valuable about the ability to offer someone a seat when there are none available.
A show stopper at the Royal College of Art’s graduate show is… a plug? A student has tackled a design problem that has been ignored for decades – how to change the fist-sized plugs used in electronics in the UK. What’s amazing about this is how a major annoyance has been ignored...
Creating real life products that have the aesthetics of fantasy is a trend we’ve seen before. The steam punk movement is an incredibly romantic example of this. The Wand Company has recently introduced a re-imagined television remote, integrating classic remote features into a gyroscope-enabled...
When was the last time we saw an innovation in the “fan” product category? This guy gives a quick demo. I love love this product. http://www.dyson.com/fans/ The Dyson Air Multiplier™ fan works very differently to conventional fans. It uses Air Multiplier™ technology to draw in air and...