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Testing out the new Tictrac app with lets you collect, track and visualize your own private data. Pretty nice interface and experience, but it’s still in closed beta, and does not yet sync with enough services to make it relevant for me. Read more in this article in Wired
Another app got me excited; the Mattebox camera app designed and developed by Ben Syverson. If you care about well designed interfaces and photography I recommend to go check it out.
Now I need an upgrade from my 3GS iphone cam. When is the next one coming out?
Giving this new list app a spin. Not so much because I really need another todo app in my life, but the simplified and gesture based interface seems pretty sweet. Designed and developed by Impending, Milen and Realmac Software (second time I am buying and promoting an application by them). Looking forward to more of this…
Update Feb. 20: Article by Aynne Valencia and Alfred Lui from Fjord highlighting the interaction trends that the Clear app is representing.
A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design
Can’t help but love stuff like this: a look into the future of how we’ll interact with computers, even though this concept by Microsoft doesn’t really bring any new ideas we haven’t seen before. The part of a future device where payment, phone, computer, ID etc. has merged to one is nothing new, but it’s still very interesting. It’s so logical, but still faces many real life obstacles. Also interesting to look at how we can make the fluent transitions work as well as it’s depicted here. Following above link leads you to Bret Victor who points out even more critical issues with this ‘vision’, especially in regards to our tactile experiences of how we interact with our surroundings, which are great and valid points.
I believe it was the same point that Marko Ahtisaari, design director of Nokia, was making when I heard him recently (introducing the N9) comparing our current interaction with smartphones to how we interacted with early cars which were controlled with a tiller for the first 20 years of existence.
But still, if you have a little bit of gadget freak in you and are interested in interaction design the video is worth your time.
At etrans we recently launched an open competition looking for app ideas that can make the electric car smarter, safer and more fun.
One of the strategic areas I have had my focus on since I started as innovation consultant at etrans was ‘Smart Data’, investigating how the intelligent e-cars can become more attractive than the gasoline driven ones by looking into the possibilities when combining the e-car with traffic data, navigation, wifi, smart phones etc.
The competition appsogelbiler.dk (apps & ecars) is rewarding the 3 best ideas in 3 categories with 25.000 DKK - and before you click through let me just say it’s all in Danish (etrans is working to get the Danes to love the e-cas).
I am hoping we get a bunch of creative and innovative concepts before the 1st of december deadline that our very competent jury can evaluate. The jury consists of:
Henrik Werdelin, Managing Partner at Prehype with a background from MTV Intl. Joost and Hotpotato and specialized in innovation and digital startups and focusing on user experience
Morten Just, Interaction Designer at Google. Previously worked with Adobe, Vodaphone and ZYB and develops new quirky apps in his sparse free time.
Christiane Vejlø, Digital trend expert and editor at Electronista.dk after having worked for 10 years with innovation in broadcasting and telephone industry.
Bo Borbye Pedersen, myself, innovation consultant and sr. designer at etrans with a background in user centered design and innovation, etc…
Please help spread the word to anyone you know who might be interested - and can understand Danish!
I have (like most of you all) noticed the UI update that the Google design team is currently rolling out over their products and platform, timed with the launch of Google+, I guess.
I think the updated look and feel is a great improvement - and of course I like the use of icons. I am hoping they’ll also change the browser bar icon.
I can’t believe that it’s 2011 and it’s the first time I’ven seen something like this. There’s an amazing amount of interactions with the public sector which could be designed to work better.
Alpha.gov.uk is an experimental prototype of a single UK Government website. It aims to be as simple as possible, and to place the needs of citizens first. Developed in under three months by a small team within the Government Digital Service, it is a direct response to Martha Lane Fox’s recent review of gov.uk, which demanded revolution, not evolution, in the way Government services are delivered online.
This video shows the BMW evolve app, which helps you figure out what impact an EV would have on your daily life. At etrans, one of our focus areas in our work in our effort to create an attractive infrastructure around the electric car is what I at one point called ‘Smart Data’. Basically that just means apps, an obvious area where the EVs has a born advantage as they are all intelligent and most of them online.
Currently we have a competition in the works which this as the main aim, but we are also looking at apps to race awareness about the EVs. We have made an edutainment app for DONG Energy (for children) and also had a concept around creating a tamagothci like app, which would act as if you had a electric car and compare it to your current driving habits. But BMW beats us with the EVolve Mobile App, which is more or less the exact same concept. And I most say that BMW are really doing some cool stuff when it comes to the future of mobility (see earlier post).
Stumbled upon this while researching on apps in relation to one of our focus areas within etrans; Smart Apps. This infographic video displays Mobile Year in Review 2010 in very impressive stats (via mobilefuture.org).
This looks nice! For everyone interested in interaction design and/or digital/sampler-based music check out these dope devices.
Beautiful little piece of software delivering a nice experience of uploading and sharing files! Courier for Mac. Very well done. I think this will be my first buy in the App Store (on my iMac).
Above is a shot of the dashboard of the Nissan Leaf. As part of my work at etrans, I am looking into how we can make the experience of the electric car better, more convenient and all around attractive. One of the potential areas we have identified and currently working with is what we have called ‘Smart Data’. App’s such as the carwings feature implemented in the Leaf, which ranks the car and drivers ability to drive economically and awards the best with Gold or Platinum - and it seems like a feature some drives find fun and motivating.
Also of interest is that Ford has chosen to present their Ford Electric tomorrow at CES along side Consumer Electronics, instead of at the Detroit motor show the following week. Via.
