Tag: inspiration

Lighting re-imagined

Some time ago I wrote about smoke alarms being re-imagined, now its the time of the lightbulb. Personal, wireless lighting www.meethue.com/en-GB

Inspiration week 1 – 2014

Witty error page by IMDB 10 Principles for good design by Dieter Rams Good design is innovative good design makes a product useful good design is aesthetic good design makes a product understandable good design is unobtrusive good design is honest good design is long-lasting good design is thorough down to the last detail good… Continue reading Inspiration week 1 – 2014

Inspiration – week 52

Cheggs – textbook rental If you’ve ever studied, then you’ll know how expensive it can be to rent/buy the necessary textbook to complete your course. With the popularity of kindles and iPads, there could be a better, cheaper way of allowing students to rent out the books they require for that semester. It just makes… Continue reading Inspiration – week 52

Inspiration – week 51

In 5 years In five years, the classroom of the future will learn about each student over the course of their education, helping students master the skills critical to meeting their goals. A system fueled by sophisticated analytics over the cloud will help teachers predict students who are most at risk, their roadblocks, and then… Continue reading Inspiration – week 51

Tone of voice in warning messages

I’ve noticed recently a much more friendly, informal tone in the error messages being used online. “Proceed anyway” and “back to safety” from firefox… Hotmail, junk mail…  Chrome, this might hurt… The style of language being adopted in online messaging recently has become a lot more friendly, and less formal. The firefox and Chromes messages… Continue reading Tone of voice in warning messages

Inspiration – week 49

Smoke alarms re-imagined Smoke alarms cry wolf so often that they’re not doing their jobs anymore. When it goes off, we’re not scared, we’re annoyed. And we take the batteries out. Its always great to see design innovation for something that has existed for a long time, unchallenged. This week, I saw an advert for… Continue reading Inspiration – week 49

Clever email UX

A few years ago, Thunderbird I think were the first ESP to check for the word “attachment” when you went to send and email, and if there was no attachment, it would say – “hey, we noticed you wrote attachment, but there is nothing attached.” This was a fantastic solution to a common problem of… Continue reading Clever email UX

Lessons learnt from the gov.uk design principles

Gov.uk have a pretty good set of design principles and its admirable that the government can be steadfast and resolute about what they are trying to do. Gov.uk design principles Start with needs Do less Design with data Do the hard work to make it simple Iterate. Then iterate again. Build for inclusion Understand context… Continue reading Lessons learnt from the gov.uk design principles

Vince Frost typo circle talk – Same shit, different country

At the JWT building in Knightsbridge yesterday graphic designer Vince Frost presented a cut down version of his prolific career highlights as part of typocircle monthly lecture. Notes of particular interest were – The london design festival logo design where he was inspired by the shape of an Iconic landmark – the route master bus,… Continue reading Vince Frost typo circle talk – Same shit, different country