Oliver Jeffers Print: “”

(Via swissmiss.)

This just looks excellent (and I have shamelessly lifted this from another RSS feed).

A sneak peek at Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland film: “

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(Via Alpha Mummy – Times Online – WBLG.)

Been buying things for the apartment recently, not least some lovely Iittala bowls:

This one is the 2,8L salad bowl, part of the Taika design by Klaus Haapaniemi. Perfect summer design for summer salads.

Kristin also picked up some bowls from a local potter in Varmland.

So what’s wrong with Adobe’s UI: Well this is a very funny tumbl log of plenty of comments of things that could be done better:

http://adobegripes.tumblr.com/

Things that particularly standout are issues with there cross-platform UI. Although praised by many as a good example, it just shows that some of the finer details are missed.

Via UIEye.

This is just great:

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2009/01/redesigning-a-u.html

A summary of the post that basically Bug Labs has hired IDEO to redesign their hardware user interface for BUGbase and to do it in the open.

Updates on the design process can be sees at: Bug Blog, Bug Community, and the IDEO blog.

Words in inspire user experience designers: http://www.inspireux.com/.

Nice list of quotes, one to add to the news reader that’s for sure.

I particularly agree with:

“In design, space is not the problem. Attention is.”
“Making assumptions about our users leads us to design for ourselves”
“The worst misstep one can make in design is to solve the wrong problem”

Movie Posters with brand integration
Alternate movie posters about film brand integration.

These are just great.

So we have started on a major product redesign at work and things are going well.

The product in question is the flagship product from our Swedish office, and the launch point and central resource for the many others here.

Starting a redesign is no simple process, after all the decision to do so usually comes from several sources not just the need to do it, but justifiable business reasoning.

The first thing we did was to look at the reasoning behind a redesign and what the goals for doing it are. We identified a list of major and minor reasons including:

• Ease of use
• New generation of APIs
• Flexibility
• Extendibility

I think took a very long look at what we had in the existing interface, identifying what was right and wrong with the current iteration.

Then I investigated what we actually needed to show and how the information broke down into component parts. It quickly was shown that we had three major areas.

• Find
• Display list of items
• Display of a single item

And then I broke down the interactions that users may do on these items and lists, as well as the process used in getting there.

Of course this was all done on the whiteboard:

And some workflows:

There are many more items that we went through as well. But it seemed that the main issue was to solve this through a simpler navigation system – more of which to come in my next post.

I haven’t seen any good examples recently of workflow diagrams, at least not more technical ones based around software, services and workflow.

Creating a diagram like this its always nice to see other examples of how people have approached the problem but in this scenario I have yet to see anything. Even Edward Tufte came short on this, though the diagrams and illustrations he provides examples for are excellent.

So this is what I came up with to illustrate a workflow with our software in a newsroom environment.

So now we have moved in the decorating is in full swing. There has been lots that we have done, but much still to do. K and I have been talking about building a floating wall for the living room, I think that needs some more thought but first off its the easy things like curtains. So last night we went to Marimekko and chose a design by Erja Hirvi called Lumimarja.

There are plenty of other really nice fabrics and designs in there, but this will probably go really well with the Sofa, floor and the colour we are thinking of having in the room.