I started a new job with Microsoft a few weeks ago - which I briefly mentioned in my Coachella post. My title, UX Designer, is a little difficult to explain. To help my friends and family understand what it is that I do, I thought I would post some descriptive information. User experience design (as a discipline) is described in the following summary written by Kirk Knemeyer and Eric Svoboda [...]
On-Off clock from Lexon I love buttons. It's really that simple. However, this new On-Off clock from Lexon just rocks to the off position - no buttons required. Designed by Nina Tolstrup, the On-Off LCD alarm clock can have its alarm activated by tilting it into the on position, and the alarm can be turned off by tilting the clock to the off position. Not sure how the snooze feature [...]
I need to give Scott Hansen some credit. I don't know him and I've never seen him (I don't think). I'd like to give him credit for his artwork. I've purchased almost every print he has for sale on his site. (see example below) I'm not sure why I like his stuff some much - maybe it's the mix of illustration and photographic imagery? I'm not an art critic, but [...]
At first, the title may not make much sense - it will by then end of this post. I found this gadget online this morning. This thing is called the, "Wattson." It provides a method of understanding how much energy your home consumes. It has a sensor, which takes a measurement of the overall domestic energy consumption (as well as assessing individual appliances). It displays the reading as a number [...]
I found an interesting site today - visualcomplexity.com. It contains several hundred visual representations of complex information. Visit Visual Complexity "VisualComplexity.com intends to be a unified resource space for anyone interested in the visualization of complex networks. The project's main goal is to leverage a critical understanding of different visualization methods, across a series of disciplines, as diverse as Biology, Social Networks or the World Wide Web. I truly hope [...]