Category Archives: inspiration
8 Insights About The Coming Era Of Interactive Design
The 18 minute “Connecting” documentary is an exploration of the future of Interaction Design and User Experience from some of the industry’s thought leaders. As the role of software is catapulting forward, Interaction Design is seen to be not … Continue reading
Peugeot Hybrid4 : The Hybrid Graphic Novel
One of the -if not THE best- Parallax effect websites out there. The combination of the Comic Style, the parallax effect and the sound effects make this an incredible experience! This is made by @transylvain – check out … Continue reading
Philips Hue
Something that makes me proud -once again- to be Dutch. Philips have release a new wonderful product that is on my “wanttohaveitsobad” list directly! “A bright idea from Philips: the electronics giant has released the Hue system; a set of … Continue reading
Six Steps to Persuasive Design with Dr. Eric Schaffer
Dr. Eric Schaffer takes us through six steps of the process of creating a persuasive design. Download a poster of this animation and a free white paper on PET research athttp://www.humanfactors.com/persuasion.asp See this and many more shorts … Continue reading
On Creativity: Andrew Zuckerman
On Creativity is a lovely series of short, informal interviews with designers, artists, musicians, filmmakers, animators, educators, and others. In the above video On Creativity talks with filmmaker and photographer Andrew Zuckerman as he discusses the nature of creativity, the creative process and the … Continue reading
RG | DropMark Usability Video Channel
I got my DropMark Beta invitation today! Wow what a great tool this is. DropMark is a simple way to organize and collaborate in the cloud. It allows you to make collections of pictures or movies (upload or link … Continue reading
Secude to Reduce
Very interesting experiments from Hivos how simple changes can get people to change their behavior. In this example they test if it’s possible to get people to take the stairs instead of the elevator.. and therefor save energy! More info: … Continue reading
Top five regrets of the dying
Very recognizable.. and so time to try and #change so that some of these don’t apply anymore More about this @ Guardian.co.uk
Graphic-ExchanGE – best of 2011
A fantastic collection of the best of 2011 by Graphic-ExchanGE. I always enjoy visiting this blog with all the wonderful posts of Letterpress identities and fabulous photography. A great space for #inspiration and #goodstyle.. This year overview is like a cherry.. Njoy! … Continue reading
5 UX meltdowns and how to avoid them
Dr. Eric Schaffer talks about 5 UX meltdowns and how they can be avoided. You can download a poster of the animation athttp://www.humanfactors.com/meltdown.asp
Object Oriented CSS (OOCSS)
The concept of object oriented CSS and how it can help improve both the performance and maintainability of your Web pages. As with any object-based coding method, the purpose of OOCSS is to encourage code reuse and, ultimately, faster and more efficient … Continue reading
Testing the 2012 Porsche Carrera 911
Watch as Porsche engineers rigorously test the all-new 2012 Carrera 911 in South Africa and the Arctic Circle. Our engineers took the car on the most demanding road trips imaginable while in the most punishing of climates. They pushed … Continue reading
Story Mapping
After listening to an Blogpost @UIE with Jeff Patton about Story Mapping for UX Practitoners: Tying Agile and UX Together I’ve been looking for more information about this interesting approach. So what is Story Mapping? Story Mapping … Continue reading
The Nest
Nest is the first thermostat that learns from you. Stay comfortable when you’re home, save energy when you’re away. Biggest question is.. will it come to Europe in the near future aswel ? I would order More … Continue reading
InvisionApp
Just came across InvisionApp while browsing UxMovement.com. This tool really looks promising and it can indeed speed up the proces design-wise but also to get feedback from clients! More info @ http://www.invisionapp.com/
Steve Jobs on Creativity
“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they … Continue reading
Chasing Dollars instead of Passion
Many people have the skills to make dollars but their decision making skills, especially which niches or business they need to go into have to come from 1 place…..Gary Vaynerchuk does a great job articulating this in this short … Continue reading
Jeff Bezos. Obsess about customers!
Very inspiring movie from Jeff Bezos about founding Amazon and his shortlist to actually make it as far as he came. “It’s always day 1“ Also he addresses Zappos and their customer obsessed focus! More from Jeff Bezos Zappos … Continue reading
Wacom Inkling
I just came across my next *wanna and gonna have* from the interwebs .. the Wacom Inkling. I just saw someone working with a Livescribe and that looked neat but the Inkling goes even further. The Inkling is a neat device … Continue reading
Back to the Start
Great short about what the current food industry has come to.. found it funny because I just recently ate my *first Chipotle* meal ever and it was quite an experience.. “Back to the Start.” The film, by film-maker … Continue reading
JPEGmini – Your Photos on a Diet
JPEGmini is a patent-pending photo recompression technology, which significantly reduces the size of photographs without affecting their perceptual quality. The technology works in the domain of baseline JPEG, resulting in files that are fully compatible with any browser, photo software or … Continue reading
Photography-themed Rube Goldberg Machine
Very nice and long Rube Goldberg Machine (wikipedia) film by 2D Photography Inc. Also nice that at some point you see puppets who look like the singers of Ok Go in their Rube Goldberg music clip (recommended watch..). … Continue reading
TV Portraits
The Estonian photographer Andris Feldmanis wanted to put at the place television by creating this series of stereotypes, in order to show another glance and point of view on the media. Indeed, in his country an average inhabitant looks … Continue reading
Sucker for Soccer [retro style]
Just came across these designs on FFFFound. There are some really nice retro designs on this Behance post. The only thing I miss is a poster of my all time hero’s Jari Litmanen and Dennis Bergkamp. Also makes me proud that there … Continue reading
Lytro: Camera Start-Up Offers a Whole New Perspective
This is real incredible innovation – a camera sensor that enables you to change the focus AFTER the pictures are taken. Very nice and the camera’s will be available later this year (2011)..!! More info @ allthingsd.com also … Continue reading
Walt Disney’s MultiPlane Camera
Incredible bit of history I just came across while browsing YIMMY’S YAYO™. For me this was news so I am so excited I “found out” how Disney did this. I always wondered but never knew.. damn how genius! Walt Disney’s … Continue reading
UX Enterprise: The Relational Database of UX Objects
Based on 30 years of experience in User Experience (UX) design, and 18 person-years of development effort, HFI introduces UX Enterprise™ (UXE), the world’s most powerful UX asset management and design system. UX Enterprise is a software product … Continue reading
Splashpage Lennartverstegen.com live!
Today I am very proud to announce the splashpage (=temporary landingpage) for Lennart Verstegen. Together with Miguel Kooreman we’ve been working with Lennart for the last months to design a complete new website for Lennart. Lennart Verstegen (1985) … Continue reading
CSS3 Patterns Gallery
Nice gallery of CSS3 Patterns.. have a look and try for yourself. Browser support The patterns themselves should work on Firefox 3.6+, Chrome, Webkit nightlies, Opera 11.10+ and IE10+. More info @ http://leaverou.me/css3patterns/
Tang Yau Hoong – Negative Space
Very nice illustration of Tang Yau Hoong where he makes very good use of negative space. More info @ http://tangyauhoong.com/negative-space/
JEG FORVENTER INGEN (I expect no one)
Very nice short movie written and Directed by Kristoffer Borgli. The fact that the essential moments are left out are brilliant! Watch and enjoy! Commissioned by the F5 Festival (f5fest.com) Cast: Woman – Inga Longvastøl Flem Thief – Inge … Continue reading
A next-generation digital book
Software developer Mike Matas demos the first full-length interactive book for the iPad — with clever, swipeable video and graphics and some very cool data visualizations to play with. The book is “Our Choice,” Al Gore’s sequel to “An Inconvenient … Continue reading
Tribute to UX Design part II
Who doesn’t love a good UX design, and who doesn’t get totally frustrated with bad experience design. This is a Follow up on the first tribute .. Hail to all the great UX designers of the world. Spread the love … Continue reading
The Saga Of Biorn
Very nice animation movie from The Animation Workshop. Story Biôrn, an old Viking, is determined to reach Valhalla, the warrior’s afterlife full of excessive drinking and debauchery. To gain entry he has to die honorably in battle, but he … Continue reading