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Documentary: Up there [sticky]

Update: Made this post *sticky* because I really like it “Up there is the story of the fad­ing tra­di­tion of hand painted adver­tis­ing.” This is really a very nice doc­u­men­tary by Mekanism — all the DOF shots are excel­lent. Must … Con­tinue read­ing

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Love Life. Fight Cancer.

Fight Can­cer is very good ini­tia­tive of the Dutch Asso­ci­a­tion (Non Profit) against Can­cer. In this cam­paign they address the impact on hear­ing you have can­cer. This cam­paign is for aware­ness and  fund­ing  for can­cer research, infor­ma­tion and patient sup­port. … Con­tinue read­ing

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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  

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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

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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

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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

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Sebastian Deterding - Rethinking the Ethics of Design

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 is … Con­tinue read­ing

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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

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Jeff Patton : User Story Mapping

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

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The Nest - Learning Thermostat

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

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InvisionApp

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/

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Steve Jobs on Creativity

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

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Acceptance speech Nasrdin Dchar

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. It … Con­tinue read­ing

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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

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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

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Wacom Inkling

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

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Chipotle

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

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JPEGmini - your Photos on a Diet

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

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2D Photography Rube Goldberg Machine

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

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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

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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

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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

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Walt Disney's MultiPlane Camera

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

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Uxenterprice

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

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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

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css3patterns

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/

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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/

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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 Alexan­der … Con­tinue read­ing

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Theo Jansen’s Strandbeest

Dutch design / engi­neer­ing at it’s best… Theo Jansen’s strand­beest Self-propelling beach ani­mals like Ani­maris Per­cip­iere have a stom­ach . This con­sists of recy­cled plas­tic bot­tles con­tain­ing air that can be pumped up to a high pres­sure by the wind. … Con­tinue read­ing

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Cool designer office stuff!

Joey Roth brings us the per­fect com­pan­ion to the wood-grain key­board: a felt mouse. His pithy descrip­tion says it all: “A com­puter mouse made from wool felt, teak, and alu­minum.” Where Roopenian’s pro­to­type is still a con­cept, Roth will present … Con­tinue read­ing

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ourchoice

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

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uxdesign2

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

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bjorn

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

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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

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1140grid

1140Grid — 12 columns fluid to mobile

The 1140 grid fits per­fectly into a 1280 mon­i­tor. On smaller mon­i­tors it becomes fluid and adapts to the width of the browser. Beyond a cer­tain point it uses media queries to serve up a mobile ver­sion, which essen­tially stacks … Con­tinue read­ing

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