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The World’s Most Influential Designers
Can You Guess Them All? Not only is “influential” difficult to measure, but “design” is also nigh on impossible to define neatly. Nonetheless, we decided to put together a list of some of the design world’s most influential movers and shakers. From design thinkers to hands-on design doers in industries from graphics to industrial to auto design, our chosen 27 luminaries represent a diverse cross-section of design disciplines. But all those selected...
Prepare to be Augmented…Earthlings
Augmented Reality (AR) or mixed reality is the real-time, semantic view of the physical real-world environment merged with computer-generated imagery. For some time now I have been pitching thoughts and ideas around the subject of AR. I’ve been trying to wrap my head around this topic to draw-up a thesis on how we as designers could use this technology to provide breakthroughs for our craft, and re-purpose the user experience for people. AR has been around for sometime...
Rise of the Mobile Remote Control
It is a sure thing to say that there are more people who own cellphones and smart phones then there are those who own personal computers. Several reasons for this range from price points, convenience, usability and the simple need to communicate with someone for pleasure or emergency situations. With the increase of UX knowledge workers, too much emphasis is being placed on designing web sites more then any other technology medium around. Although we have a lot of experts in...