Design for Interaction

A short recap of the London IA night. Definitely worthwhile! The first talk by Joe Leech (@mrjoe)was an introduction into neuroscience, neurons, synapses and more. Then taking us to good old Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. One of the points made was, what really motivates us is both dopamine and serotonine. Which can be related to not [...]

As I am still new to London I though it was about time to dive into the local internet and tech scene. Luck has it that I live only 2 mins away from the so called Sillicon Roundabout at Old Street. Which indeed means there’s a lot of creativity and technology here. Wednesday night the [...]

Agile UX Meetup Group Last Wednesday I went to the Agile UX Meetup Group to hear James O’Brien (@sparrk) talk about his secrets of agile UX. It was a very interesting talk based on lots of work experience. Even though I don’t work in a fully agile environment at the moment, I felt there were [...]

At UNITiD I’ve recently worked on a project for BlackBerry — the original blogpost can be find on the UNITiD blog. BlackBerry has started a serious competition with iPhone and Google Android, after reports on decreasing customer satisfaction in 2010. Competitors offer easy to use touchscreen devices, good browsing and great 3rd party apps. With [...]

Natural User Interfaces, de nieuwe ontwikkeling in de wereld van interaction design. Touchscreen producten zoals iPhone en de Microsoft Surface zijn voorbeelden van een meer natuurlijke interactie; met de vingers, met beide handen. Natural User Interfaces was ook het onderwerp van de Design by Fire editie 2010, afgelopen woensdag in Pakhuis De Zwijger in Amsterdam. [...]

Afgelopen vrijdag was het weer tijd voor Acht Uur Overwerken Voor Het Goede Doel, het jaarlijkse evenement van Nieuwe Garde. Het was een mooie avond in MixTup op de Vijzelstraat! Hier alle eindpresentaties en de foto’s op deFlickr Photostream!

Update 26-01-2009: De presentatie Ontwerpen voor Android bij Design by Fire op Slideshare Ontwerpen voor Android Maandag 25 januari presenteer ik bij het Design by Fire cafe in Utrecht over interactie ontwerp voor Android. Daarbij vergelijk ik, hoe kan het ook anders, met ontwerpen voor de iPhone. Oftewel: ‘Ontwerpen voor mobiel is anders dan ontwerpen [...]

Are you starting with interaction design for Android – like we are at UNITiD – then there are a number of useful resources to help you out. I couldn’t yet find a Fireworks template, so I have made one myself and posted it on the UNITiD blog. In the Fireworks  template the Android user interface [...]

The 1%club is a platform for small charities that want to raise money for their specific cause, asking everyone to invest 1% of their time. projects range from theatre by street kids in Namibia, to building water wells in India. The 1%club is different because it is a platform for other charities, and mostly because [...]

A quality customer experience makes consumers happy. And satisfied consumers positively influence brand experience and revenue, we can be quite sure of that. But thankfully Forrester Research has now published a research report in which this can be proven with statistics. A good customer experience results in loyalty, and that means more revenue. How do [...]