Adrian Westaway: Magic and Design – Using the Thought Process of Magicians to Design New Experiences
In addition to be being cofounder of design and invention studio, Special Projects, Adrian is also a magician and a full member of the magic circle. In this talk he reveals how the process magicians use when designing new illusions can be applied to design. This talk offers a unique perspective on designing magical user experiences which surprise and delight […]
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Businesses need to figure out how to get more of the right things to market faster. Having got lean and agile, maximised their marketing spend and digitally transformed, what holds businesses back is their ability to agree what to do, and change. Having worked with billion dollar businesses, Engine has learned a lot about what works […]
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The 20th century challenge was to design a world of useful new machines. Form Followed Function. The rise of consumer culture introduced empathy and user-centric design. Form Followed Emotion. We are now entering an era of quantification and automation. Every person, place, and thing is being written about, annotated, digitised, and automated. Machines and services […]
Read moreWeb apps are considered to work online only. When the Internet connection drops, the app usually stops functioning. Although in such situations we cannot enable the whole functionality, we can still let our users continue their work and thus give them good user experience. In this talk I will share design principles and implementation strategies […]
Read moreClosing Keynote at World IA Day Zürich, 18. Februar 2017 Abstract: The products we create can make someone’s day—or leave them feeling alienated, marginalized, hurt, or angry. It all depends on whether we design for real life: for people with complex emotions, stressed-out scenarios, or simply identities that are different from our own. In this […]
Read moreDidier Hilhorst, Design Director at Uber, shares how his graduate degree in economics helps mold him as a designer and, in turn, shape how he and his team redesigned Uber from the ground up. FOLLOW US Twitter: http://twitter.com/highrespodcast Facebook: http://facebook.com/highrespodcast iTunes: http://bit.ly/highresitunes Google Play: http://bit.ly/highresgoogle
Read moreKatie Dill, Director of Experience Design at Airbnb, channels her inner “Steve Jobs” to explain how design at Airbnb is not just how it looks, but how it works, both in the workplace and on the screen. Twitter: http://twitter.com/highrespodcast Facebook: http://facebook.com/highrespodcast iTunes: http://bit.ly/highresitunes Google Play: http://bit.ly/highresgoogle
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Bret Victor invents tools that enable people to understand and create. He has designed experimental UI concepts at Apple, interactive data graphics for Al Gore, and musical instruments at Alesis. For more on Bret, see worrydream.com. This talk was given at CUSEC 2012 (2012.cusec.net).
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What is creative leadership? A Creative Director, dressed in black turtleneck, dictating every single detail? Cool! Would you work for that person? Creative leadership is more than finding a perfect form, much more than arriving at perfect concept. It is about creating a space and culture for creativity to happen. It is about fostering growth. […]
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Space matters. We read space like we read people’s faces. Space is an instrument of collaboration and innovation. At the University of Michigan’s Institute for Clinical & Health Research (MICHR), a team was created to creatively and economically enhance our operating space into a flexible workspace that supports privacy, innovation, creativity, and – most importantly […]
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