Category Archives: Our idols
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
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
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
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
TEDx Hogeschool Utrecht Moral Persuasion
This was the opening video for the TEDx Hogeschool Utrecht event curated by Mischa Coster. Persuasion is used every day to get people to act in certain ways towards other people, towards causes, but mostly towards products and brands. … Continue reading
Sebastian Deterding – Rethinking the Ethics of Design
Sebastian Deterding TEDx talk “Rethinking the Ethics of Design” @ TEDx Hoge School Utrecht on the 8th of November 2011. Sebastian Deterding is a designer and researcher working on user experience, video games, persuasive technology and gameful design. He … Continue reading
Don Norman – The Impact of Persuasion
Don Norman’s talk on Tedx at the Hoge School Utrecht on the 8th of November 2011 about the impact of Persuasion. Don Norman was recently named by Business Week as “one of the world’s most influential designers.” His … 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
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
Acceptance speech Nasrdin Dchar
Actor Nasrdin Dchar wins a Golden Calf for his rol in RABAT at the Netherlands Film Festival 2011. He describes how so many Dutch people feel, the feeling of fear is something that is injected into the (Dutch) society. … 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
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
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
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/
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
Vla Productions
Vla Productions is a videoproduction company from The Netherlands who recently moved in @Fabrique in Delft. Both owners Arjen Schotel and Lars Ham are professional creatives who deliver great work like the video below. More info @ Vla Productions
328stories.com – Stories worth sharing
328 stories. We are crazy about stories. We love to make them happen. Your stories. Our stories. Any story. We work on & offline. Long stories. Short stories. Ads. Poems. Docs. We used to be a production company. Now, we … Continue reading
JellePelle.nl Cowboy enters Saloon
Jelle Gijsberts is a very talented Dutch young man who has his own Illustration style. Like he states on his website: “I simply love to create images that tell a story and put a smile on your face!” And he … Continue reading
Srdjan Kirtic
Srdjan Kirtic is an awarded logo designer from Novi Sad, Serbia with an incredible desire to create logos and rich imagination to fuel that desire. He had an incredible project called 365logoproject in which he posted daily a new logo … Continue reading
MWC 2011 – Gesture Control for Mobile Devices – Extreme Reality
XTR3D offering Gesture Control Software Interface using front facing camera. Users can control their device and play games from 15cm up to 5m away!. XTR3D interface is robust in “noisy environments” of ‘hand held devices, offering low level optimized solution … Continue reading
Google +1
Google’s answer to the Facebook “Like Button” is here. The +1 button is shorthand for “this is pretty cool” or “you should check this out.” Click +1 to publicly give something your stamp of approval. Your +1′s can help friends, … Continue reading
25 Years of Pixar
Celebrating 25 years of Pixar, 12 feature films, and 20 short films. Pixar Animation makes the best films, there’s no doubt. Each film is unique and special.
Dear American Airlines
The articles are not new, but they are to me and they are just too interesting not to mention.It describes what I find myself wondering why some big companies have such poor UX on their website(s)/application(s). I then wonder whether … Continue reading
A Rare Look Inside Pixar Studios
Melena Ryzik (The New York Times) gets a rare behind-the-scenes look at the Pixar Studios complex in California. More info @ nyti.ms/g4LEc4
Pete Eckert – a blind photographer
Just came across this inspiring article on Swiss-Miss.com about Pete Eckert who is a totally blind person. But through his photography, he proves that he IS a visual person, he just can’t see. Pete was the Grand Prize recipient of … Continue reading
Vivian Maier
Check out the blog of Photographer Vivian Maier, a street photographer from the 1950s – 1990s. Vivian Maier is probably the greatest undiscovered artistic street photographer in Chicago’s history. Vivian’s work was discovered at an auction here in Chicago where … Continue reading