All The Small Things

Hi, I’m Arnold van Iterson I’m an interaction designer from Rotterdam (Netherlands). I love smart & sexy interactions and All The Small Things is the place where I collect them all. I’m owner / Partner of PixelDeluxe Interaction Design. At PixelDeluxe we are helping companies innovate on web and mobile. I Love: #UX, #Surfing Web en Waves You can find me on Twitter: @Iterson

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Palette: Hands-on Interaction | Control your input

PALETTE is the first FREEFORM hardware interface that offers hands-on control of your favorite software.

Kickstarter

Website: www.palettegear.com

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Medium - small and large quotes are visually represented with a single colored symbol and both colored symbols of the quotation mark. 

/via Marina Janeiko

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It’s about time

I’ve been making small videos about micro interactions / design patterns for a year now. And from now on I will expand these post with extra information. I will add more examples and sometimes code tutorials or downloads. So when you get excited about the topic, you directly have the right tools to implement it.

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Next level interaction: inFORM - Interacting With a Dynamic Shape Display

https://vimeo.com/79179138

http://www.fastcodesign.com/3021522/innovation-by-design/mit-invents-a-shapeshifting-display-you-can-reach-through-and-touch

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GE and design may not seem to go together, but as it connects its industrial products, medical devices and home appliances to the internet and rethinks its business for the connected age, the company is focusing on user interfaces and data. http://bit.ly/1hkd2n5

Curated by User Experience -...

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Good news or self fulfilling prophecy

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Just in time... | UI Design Patterns for Successful Software

Thanks to Facebook i saw the announcement of this course.

http://interaction-design.org/courses/ui_design_patterns_for_successful_software.html

It's the first time I will join a course at Interaction design.org, and I'm really looking forward following it. I'm working on several software projects at the moment. That gives me plenty of room to work with real scenarios.

Keep you posted with the results

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Disney lets you feel textures on touchscreen!

Video:Tactile Rendering of 3D Features on Touch Surfaces

Via: BBC

Summary

In this project, we develop and apply a tactile rendering algorithm to simulate rich 3D geometric features (such as bumps, ridges, edges, protrusions, texture etc.) on touch screen surfaces. The underlying hypothesis is that when a finger slides on an object then minute surface variations are sensed by friction-sensitive mechanoreceptors in the skin. Thus, modulating the friction forces between the fingertip and the touch surface would create illusion of surface variations. We propose that the percept of a 3D “bump” is created when local gradients of the virtual bump are mapped to lateral friction forces.

http://www.disneyresearch.com/project/3d-touch-surfaces/

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UX & Business: Flipboard

I really like reading on my iPad. So I created a new board on Flipboard to collect all my relevant ux and business articles. Normally I use Pocket to collect them, but I like the look and feel and the features of Flipboard so i'm giving it a try.

Subscribe to my Flipboard: UX & Business

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Inspiration: Icon based list of how to change your settings

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Youtube - jumps from "about" to "share" at end of a video

At the end of the video, the tab under the video, swithes form from "about" to "share".

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Medium - Share you're selected text

Medium lets you select text, and than gives you the opportunity to send it to Twitter.

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Executives and Unicorns | Video

MX 2013 - Daniel Romano | Princesses, Executives and Unicorns: Managing the Rethink of Disney.com from Adaptive Path on Vimeo.

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New Pinterest board: Portals & Dashboard | Big Data | UX | Interaction design

Because lots of my work at PixelDeluxe involve designing stuff around (big)data. I started a new Pinterest board, i'll be looking for design-patterns, and of course inspiration.

Pinterestboard

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Spotify preview function

Spotify lets you preview a song by holding the playbutton.

Sorry no sound available...

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Gamestorming: Design Practices for Co-creation and Engagement

I'm currently doing a research in collaboration and giving workshops. I want to become better at this. Via youtube a found the topic "Gamestorming". Also a book by Dave Gray.

Below you will find a video by Dave explaining the basic idea.

Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakers

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0596804172/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_jCA3rb000XHVK 

Great things don't happen in a vacuum. But creating an environment for creative thinking and innovation can be a daunting challenge. How can you make it happen at your company? The answer may surprise you: gamestorming.

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Reading: Microinteractions

My interaction design life just got better. I just bought the book Microinteractions. It's about all the small things...

Microinteractions are contained product moments that revolve around a single use case.

To quote Charles Eames:

The details are not the details. They make the design

http://microinteractions.com/about-the-book/

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5 Dangers of Flat Design, by UX pin

To say that „Flat design is extremely popular” is to say nothing. The Flat design took over the design world. Microsoft (since 2010), Google and Apple adapted flat design to some extent and thousands of designers followed (check out the Flat Design Showcase).

The simple and clear aesthetics of the flat design is easy to recognize and became a brand on its own rights. Some designers though tend to see it as beginning of the revolution:

http://blog.uxpin.com/2526/5-dangers-of-flat-design/