The art of visualising music: A brief history of graphic notation
Design and music intersect in many areas; fashion, art, filmmaking and set design, yet one relatively obscure but staggeringly creative area is in the design of graphic notation used by composers. Graphic notation is one side that is relatively unknown outside the sometimes rarefied world of orchest..
How to build great products
Build at the intersectionThe best products are created at the intersection of product, design, and engineering. Successful teams start, build, and finish together. Fewer handoffs, and more multidisciplinary debates and considerations.
Decide at the intersectionThe best product decisions are made at ..
Design like Elon Musk using 6 fundamental principles
How Musk’s companies are able to beat existing industry giants using 6 fundamental design principles.
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How does Virtual Reality affect our society, emotionally and ethically?
The risk of users suffering psychological trauma will steadily increase as VR advances.
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The existential designer
How designers can use philosophical thinking to create meaning in a meaningless world.
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UX and Human Factors: How to use psychology to empower the user
Co-Authors: Cat Hodges and Kay Stanney
Human Factors within User Experience DesignUser Experience (UX) is an extensive interdisciplinary field that encompasses many aspects of design and engineering. When you hear the term “UX,” you may relate it only to applications and software, but it’s actually ..
Design psychology and the neuroscience behind awesome UX
This article was written in collaboration with Senior UX researcher Caitria O’Neill, currently at Google, previously at Airbnb and Facebook.The human brain is lazy, biased, and prone to shortcuts.The user experience study of human cognition can be mushy, unscientific, and filled with false assumptio..
The Catch
Attribution: Kenneth AllenIt has now been 4 months and 14 days since my job at IBM dissolved, and on August 18th, I accepted a contract role to become a Principal UX Designer for PayPal, started yesterday (September 14). Big sigh of relief for me.
On Twitter, I noticed a designer (https://twitter.co..
A brief history on writing: A forgotten technology
How the challenges we face in today’s digital age can be traced back to one of the most significant yet underrated innovations of all time—writing.Ernest Hemingway writing. Image: WortmanWhen you think “technology”, writing seldom comes to mind. Yet, the creation of writing remains one of the single..
Projective techniques in design research
Brief context, definition and how to use them.
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