Great magazine reader concept:

Mag+

Wired commissions IDEO to solve urban rage:

http://www.wired.co.uk/wired-magazine/archive/2009/12/features/reinventing-british-manners,-the-post-it-way.aspx?page=1

With the addition of two bluetooth rings:

http://www.bck-id.com/BCK_web_english/portfolio_color_rings.html

Check out the video from the winner of the interaction design section of the 2009 awards. Similar to many of our concepts, and we took it further conceptually, but see how the video presents it all very nicely:

http://studentawards.dandad.org/2009/categories/14/interactive-design/01654/christian-soderholm-dennis-rosenqvist

Intel’s user-centred approach to design - home storage:

http://www.intelconsumerelectronics.com/Consumer-Electronics-3.0/Home-Storage-Architecture.aspx

http://www.intelconsumerelectronics.com/Consumer-Electronics-3.0/Whole-Home-Storage.aspx

Google’s Eyes-Free code for Andriod Applications:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mu5FCQmtdJU&feature=channel_page

Following on from a posting from Maria on que.qis, and an article I read the other day on wired.com, a succinct reminder of how large corporate engineering-based structures stifle creativity:

http://blog.wired.com/business/2009/03/googles-data-cu.html

http://adamhowell.org/2009/03/20/googles-designer-drain/

http://stopdesign.com/archive/2009/03/20/goodbye-google.html

Short video about designing for mobiles, very cute:

Designing for Mobiles: Users & Context

Nice article here on design research from Jane Fulton Suri of IDEO (of thoughtless acts? fame).

The different types of design research described, whilst using different terminology, align closely with our current thinking and practices, which is reassuring.

As an aside, this article also mentions Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink, a great read on intuition and right-brain thinking, which comes highly recommended.

Copied from an email to que from Christophe, but thought that it was of interest to UFI:

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/eye-tracking-studies-more-than-meets.html

Suggests that scanning results from a Google search is a primarily left-brain activity: orderly, sequential, etc..