Category: Cognitive Science UX Research

A Tour of the Bus hankboughtabus.com Hi! I’m Hank, and I bought a bus. In archi­tec­ture school I was tired of draw­ing build­ings that would never exist, for clients that were imag­i­nary, and with details I didn’t fully under­stand. I p … http://flip.it/yfI7s Related articles Fair play for machines: Chomsky's misreading of Turing, and why … Continue reading Hank bought a bus

Varibike lets you pedal with your legs – and your arms Ben Coxworth, gizmag.com Earlier this year, we heard about a proposed arm- and leg-powered bicycle known as the 4StrikeBike. At the time, we knew that if it were to reach production, it would be facing some competition from the existing Raxibo Hand-Tret-Velo. Now, it … Continue reading Varibike lets you pedal with your legs – and your arms

Udacity design course emphasizes design for everyone Rani Molla, gigaom.com Under­stand­ing what con­sti­tutes good design isn’t just impor­tant for tech­nol­o­gy star­tups and enter­prise com­pa­nies – it’s impor­tant for the rest of us, too. Design — both good and bad– is a larg­er part of our daily lives than you might… http://flip.it/rQvVa

How Emotional Design can Give your Website Much More Impact Flin Nortier, thenextweb.com This post by Flin Norti­er was orig­i­nal­ly pub­lished on the blog of design agency Soda Stu­dio. As an inter­ac­tion design­er, how often have you run into projects where you’re asked to ensure a great ‘user expe­ri­ence’, with­out… http://flip.it/lMe4Z Related articles Why we … Continue reading How Emotional Design can Give your Website Much More Impact

How to Stay Productive When You Work in an Open Office Lauren Lee Anderson, thenextweb.com This post was orig­i­nal­ly pub­lished on the 15Five blog. It’s very like­ly that if you’ve worked in an office at all, you’ve worked in an open-plan office. As a reac­tion against hier­ar­chi­cal work­place struc­tures and a means to mov… http://flip.it/NRxE7

Couple Leave Their Jobs to Build a Recycled Windows Love Nest Ana Lisa Alperovich, inhabitat.com To make their dreamlike home and watch the sun set over the mountains, the romantic duo came up with the idea of building the whole facade from windows. That way they will get… http://flip.it/RUBwm

A Couple Leaves their Jobs to Build a House of Windows in the Mountains of West Virginia Christopher Jobson, thisiscolossal.com For their very first date, photographer Nick Olson took designer Lilah Horwitz on a walk in the mountains of West Virginia. While chatting and getting to know each other during a particularly scenic sunset the … Continue reading A house of windows

How To Design A Better Office For Both Introverts And Extroverts BY CHRIS CONGDON, fastcompany.com Could a “palette of place” give workers control and choice over where and how they work? One company goes deep into work space. Ask work­ers what bugs them most about the office, and chances are they’ll tell you they can’t … Continue reading How To Design A Better Office For Both Introverts And Extroverts

Anxious People Prefer More Personal Space By Shaunacy Ferro, popsci.com Because they perceive threats as closer, according to a new study. How close can some­thing get to your face before you blink? That’s basi­cal­ly the method sci­en­tists use to deter­mine “defen­sive periper­son­al space,” the safe­ty bub­ble of… http://flip.it/9mGZW

Antique Raspberry Pi Internet Radio Matt Richardson, makezine.com It seems to be a pop­u­lar thing to do, turn­ing your Rasp­ber­ry Pi into a stream­ing audio play­er for inter­net radio sta­tions. How­ev­er, I’m espe­cial­ly impressed with Flo­ri­an Amrhein’s Dig­i­tal Vin­tage Radio. The Oxford-based maker use… http://flip.it/Emb1I