Monthly Archives: September 2010

“Can experience be designed?” Yes. No. Wait, yes. But.

Oliver Reichenstein’s recent article “Can experience be designed?” sparked a lively discussion here at Adaptive Path. Reichenstein does a good job cutting through a lot of the hype and fluff that surrounds experience design, drilling through the rhetoric in an attempt to reach a more substantive center. His article caused a fair amount of reflection [...] Continue reading

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UIEtips: Information Interplay – Visual Design, Information Architecture, and Content

There’s an on-going debate in the design community: are teams better off with generalists or specialists? Those taking the generalist side argue that a breadth of abilities helps more. On the specialists’ side, they claim it is the depth of specific abilities delivering the benefit.
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UX Week 2010 | Wyatt Mitchell | WIRED’s Digital Rebirth

Traditionally, magazine designers and editors have been well-equipped to create compelling experiences in print, but highly crafted digital formats have proven more elusive. With the arrival of the iPad, Condé Nast’s WIRED—in partnership with Adobe Continue reading

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UX Week 2010 | Sara Öhrvall | The Mag+ Concept: The Silent Mode of Digital Magazine Reading

Sara Öhrvall, director of global R&D at Bonnier, will share her thoughts on bridging the gap between magazine content and the interactivity of the social Web. She’ll talk about how the Mag+ platform aims to “socialize” magazine content, bringing… Continue reading

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Designing Web Interfaces posted a video:

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Teaching Design to High School Students

A couple weeks ago at the AIGA’s D.Talks – The Rise of Service Design, Hugh Dubberly said that one of the best ways to impact the future is through the application of design to education. To which I thought: wouldn’t it be great if designers played a greater role in education policy and programs to [...] Continue reading

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UX Week 2010 | Mark Coleran | The Reality of Fantasy

For many years, Fantasy user interfaces (FUI) in film and television have drawn both acclaim and ridicule in equal measure. Credited with pushing boundaries about what is possible and dumbing down and misrepresenting a complex field of work and setting… Continue reading

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UX Week 2010 | Iain Roberts & Tasos Karahalios | IDEO Case Study: MyFord Touch

For over two years, designers and engineers at IDEO and Ford Motor Company collaborated closely on a signature HMI experience for the company’s entire Ford and Lincoln 2010 vehicle portfolio that consumers would find simple, attentive, and intuitive…. Continue reading

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Signposts for the week ending September 24, 2010

Here are some links that passed through our offices this week! Enjoy! …..for the weary and faint of heart……..………………… ………………………………………..for the luddites…..………… …………….For the marty mcfly’s…….……………………….. ……………………………………………..for the lawyers…..…… …….for the tech geeks……………………………………………. ………………………………………for the literati………….……. ………………for the cheese balls……………………………….. …………………………………..For the social innovator…… …for the passionate teachers of san fran……………….. ……………..for 17.9 million Americans…………………… [...] Continue reading

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SpoolCast: Mark Burrell’s Search Patterns Revisted

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Today we’re revisiting search patterns by sharing the followup podcast Jared Spool recorded with Mark Burrell of Endeca. Jared and Mark discuss a few bonus questions from the previous Virtual Seminar. Included in the full post are a few highlights from the podcast. Continue reading

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