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¡Eh! yo también tengo pensado un ratón multitouch...
... Pero sólo pensado. Ha sido bastante divertido redescubrir esta mañana una noticia de primeros de mes acerca del ratón multitouch de Microsoft, aún dentro del imaginario de la compañía y materializado en forma de paper como ejemplo de innovación. No soy muy amigo de las comparaciones entre Apple y Microsoft, me parecen niñe...
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Principio de semejanza
"Nuestra mente agrupa los elementos similares en una entidad. La semejanza depende de la forma, el tamaño, el color y otros aspectos visuales de los elementos." Psicología de la Gestalt Y un bonito ejemplo del principio es la sección Bicis de Giant (Fijaos en los bloques "On-road" y "Off-road"). Un esquema muy claro de toda la gama de bici...
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Interfaz de las conversaciones sobre salud en el NYT
Me ha sorprendido gratamente la forma que tiene el New York Times de presentar el conjunto de conversaciones que mantienen los lectores del periódico acerca de distintos temas relacionados con salud. Se trata de una retícula que simula habitaciones y donde el tamaño de cada celda está directamente relacionado con el número de participaciones ...
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Philips says: Wake up suprachiasmatic nucleus!
Philips had developed an amazing wake-up machine that acts directly on one of our self-regulation center of time. It lights up as the daylight used to do over our face when we lived whithout watches, mobile phones and anoying alarms. Telling our bodies that the time has come, regulating our circadian rhythm as we wake easily and more peaceful...
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Algo sale de nuestros ojos
[...]"Aplicamos sesgos a las pruebas en las que nos fijamos para que encajen con nuestras teorías sobre cómo creemos que en realidad funciona el mundo." Bruce Hood, reflexionando sobre que el hecho de que la mayoría de las personas están convencidas de que son capaces de percibir cuándo les miran por la espalda. El último capítulo de Red...
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When intensity means time
It's widely accepted that domestic appliances are the kings of everyday misunderstadings. From video recorders to washing machines, they all share a so broad range of diferent controllers that makes semantic hard to reuse. We all have to learn them one by one, but one it's learnt we are supposed to know how to set the devices. But there is one ...
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Unexpected uses
Technology is full of beautiful unexpected uses. Even the most simple act of use innovation should be take as an inspirational example. Is it possible to design for unknow needs? Probably not. But you must always keep an eye on what people are doing with your product.
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Reinforce your message
"Why should we keep that thing there? It's already at the sidebar/body/somewhere else..." This is my favourite of client's recurring questions. They all fear something is wrong when repeated. Probably driven by some obscure space scarcity fear they tend to identify those repeated items as threats to its siblings. Placing something more than ...
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Game theory course
Ben Polak, an economics and management professor at Yale University, talked in this course about interesting concepts such as "strategic thinking", "evolutionary stability" and "Nash equilibrium", all applied to game thinking. Lectures are avaible in multiple formats, enviable organized and described at Open Yale Courses.
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Share it or forget about it
For the Net Geners, the stories of their lives become more important than the lives lived. It is not the experience itself, it is what they can tweet, blog, Flickr about it. An event has not happened if it is not being shared. By Tim Leberecht on Design mind.
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The value of augmented reality in advertising
Wouldn't it engage your attention?. Why do I blog this? Fine example of mixed reality with direct manipulation. It also shows the value of expectancy generation in advertising.
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