Learnings from kids + multi-touch UX:

Quoted: Us Artefactians regularly dabble in new user experiences outside of our daily client work that explore areas such as unfamiliar target audiences, new technologies, new UI mechanisms, or themes that spark our curiosity. As part of our experimentation platform, we recently added a shiny new multitouch display to our toolbox and were quickly inspired to set it up and start experimenting with it. Here’s what we did…

So I decided to check out Mudbox--heard good things about it. While watching this video, I was thinking to myself, "yeah, okay...this is like zBrush". That is, until the end of the movie when they showed interactive, real-time rendering with HDRI-based lighting, ambient occlusion, depth of field, etc. ... and then continued editing and texturing the model while in this interactive, real-time rendered view.

Quoted: Breaking the mold of traditional 3D modeling applications, Autodesk Mudbox combines a highly-intuitive user interface with an organic brush-based 3D modeling experience to ignite the creative process. See the preview.

Related: http://www.resources.autodesk.com/med/Autodesk_Mudbox

Quoted: The American Time Use Survey asks thousands of American residents to recall every minute of a day. Here is how people over age 15 spent their time in 2008.

Here is a rough translation.

Faltjahr (Folding Year) 2010, no annual planner and not a calendar in the usual sense, but rather much more twelve A4-sized, in its open position A3-sized, intricately crafted as wall sculptures, pop-up objects.

Every month motif as a single-hung an unusual eye-catcher for the demanding
full interior design.

Monochrome white paper, with simple elegance brings monthly theme reduced-form expression. The Faltjahr 2010 shows what paper is capable of.

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Crazy!

Quoted: We will present Touchable Holography atSIGGRAPH 2009 Emerging Technologies.http://www.alab.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~siggraph/09/TouchableHologr aphy/SIGG...

Myth #10: If the Design is a Good One, You Don’t Need to Test It
Myth #9: People Don’t Change
Myth #8: Design to Avoid Clicks
Myth #7: UX Design Stops at the Edges of the Product
Myth #6: If you Have Great Search, You Don’t Need Great Information Architecture
Myth #5: Can’t Decide? Make it a Preference
Myth #4: Design Always with Implementation in Mind
Myth #3: People Know What They Like
Myth #2: People Read
Myth #1: The Design Has to be Original

Quoted: MTV Networks International (MTVNI) is refreshing MTV with a single look and feel. The intent of the refresh is to embrace change and express what MTV means today.

Quoted: Plastic was one of the great innovations of the 20th century, but German scientists believe a new invention, liquid wood, could soon supplant the chemical ...