Posted on May 2nd, 2008 by Mitch Brisebois
What was Dell thinking? Where are they getting their industrial designers??
The European versions of the Vostro laptops feature a really big shift key. Dell’s reasoning - bigger shift = better shift. Unfortunately, the Bunyanesque shift key shifts the bottom row of keys over one character. So instead of the [...]
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Posted on March 7th, 2008 by Mitch Brisebois
You’re just sitting back right now sipping a Guinness, watching the snow fall outside (again!) and your Roomba 580 is hard at work sucking up the dog hair from your orange wall-2-wall shag! Meanwhile your evil teen punk kid is hangin’ downtown with his no-good friends. Equally lazy… “what… me [...]
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Posted on January 24th, 2008 by Mitch Brisebois
I love Industrial Design competitions. DesignBoom is a european site offering online design courses. They also hold monthly design competitions.
This month, the theme is dinner. In 2015. They had nearly 5,000 participants worldwide. Here are some of my favourites:
One of the winners takes the lowly BIC pen to new [...]
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Posted on January 10th, 2008 by Mitch Brisebois
Industrial design people have amazing abilities to envision future products… when those images get out.. people think it’s real product.
problem.
Case Study: iRing… a ring that controls your ipod wearables… sure…
Tags: apple, ipod, iring, industrial-design
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Posted on November 21st, 2007 by Mitch Brisebois
Just in time for the fireplace season, Amazon introduces The Kindling…errr The Kindle . What an atrociously ugly hunk of plastic this thing is. And what’s with all those angled buttons?? Amazon is quoted as saying it’s really proud of all the innovations that went into this Kinder egg: [...]
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Posted on October 13th, 2007 by Mitch Brisebois
Redesigners launched their latest competition this week to create the best inter-galactic currency. They figured that since Universal Space Lord Branson will be taking off for the Virgin Universe in 2009, he better have some pocket change. Alas, their research has concluded that earthly methods of payment, mag stripes, paper, and coins would [...]
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Posted on July 20th, 2007 by Mitch Brisebois
Do you know your left from right? BBC News posted this cool GPS concept from designer Gail Knight from the Royal College of Art. The rings vibrate to steer you to your desired location. That’s a great use of haptic UI… don’t know about the size of the [...]
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Posted on April 2nd, 2007 by Mitch Brisebois
You folks can’t miss this!! Really! THE SHOW
Tags: Carleton, Industrial-Design
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Posted on February 21st, 2007 by Mitch Brisebois
Software design has been a lot of fun for the past 10 years or so. Creating a decent user experience is easier. The flexibility of platforms encourage innovation. But I still miss product design… products that have hardware and firmware! But a hardware startup is a more daunting and cash-demanding [...]
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