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Design
Objectified
Objectified looks great. I hear the film has a segment shot inside the top secret Apple design facility, and even an interview with design ‘Czar’ Jonathan Ive. Exciting stuff. To my knowledge, the only other time Steve allowed a Jonathan Ive interview was back in 2004.
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Books, Design
Do You Matter?
A solid read that attempts to dissect the success of design centric companies like Apple and Ikea. The authors emphasize ‘design as a process not an event‘ and the (somewhat clunky) idea of ‘customer supply chain management’. The case study on Motorola was interesting. “Motorola doesn’t have a design culture. It has an engineering culture [...]
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Design, Psychology
The Uncanny Valley
Coding Horror has a great piece on human expectations, ‘the Uncanny Valley’, and how it all relates (in a big way) to UX design. Inspired by a Slate piece on Why Realistic Characters Look So Creepy. I think there’s a lot of takeaway value in this, especially for web apps.
Coding Horror: Avoiding the Uncanny Valley [...]
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