Interactive Life

Experiences and insights as an Interaction Designer

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These are some of the notes I took from my Experience class at California College of the Arts with Alexander Baumgardt and Aynne Valencia

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Which websites do you use for inspiration?

We asked a couple of friends and this is the list we came up with. Which ones would you add?

http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/en_us http://haw-lin.com/ http://www.katemoross.com/ http://www.thecoolhunter.net/ http://www.graphic-exchange.com/aabout.htm http://ffffound.com/ http://sharesomecandy.com/ https://dribbble.com/ Chrome extensions: panda & benchwarmer https://www.behance.net/ https://www.pinterest.com/ http://www.yesyesno.com/ http://designspiration.net/ http://www.thefwa.com/ http://www.awwwards.com/ http://ciid.dk/ http://www.papermakestack.com/ http://www.itsnicethat.com/ https://www.etsy.com/ http://design-milk.com/ http://www.creativebloq.com/ http://www.minimallyminimal.com/ https://mylapka.com/ http://phdesignlab.com/ https://www.nowness.com/ http://www.fastcodesign.com/ http://www.adverblog.com/ http://futureofstorytelling.org/

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Hiring UX designers: 11 qualities to look for

It’s tough to evaluate UX designers. User experience encompasses a lot of different skills, and as a relatively new fiel…

Excellent article about the qualities you should look for as an Interaction Designer

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The 5 Pillars of Interaction Design

The five key aspects of good interaction design and how to incorporate them into your website.

Do you agree with these being the five pillars of IxD?

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Design user research explained for everyone with animated gifs

User research can be the most relevant source of inspiration in design. It can be deeper than understanding what and why people do, why they do it and what they say they need.

Design Research for dummies

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The Most Essential Ingredient In Interaction Design? The Words

Impressive graphics and gestures are nice, but clear copy serves a vital function. Here are four things your writing should achieve.

So true! Words are so important, it is the first step for great design. 

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Great advice on time and resource management.

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7 Tips for Nailing that Industrial Design Job Interview

If you're granted an interview at the most prestigious design firm in the country, how confident would you feel going into it? Many designers can relate to feeling nervous before or during an interview or while presenting their work. To be a great designer, you must be able to communicate

This goes beyond Industrial Design...

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frog

As a designer I’ve spent the last decade translating human needs and desires into experiences that fulfill them — and I’m convinced: the human-centered design process demands more than just empathy with others; it requires a deep understanding of our own selves.

Empathy isn’t everything.

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Jonathan Ive and the Future of Apple - The New Yorker

Inside the top-secret lab where the world’s most powerful design team created the Apple Watch.

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From Information to Understanding | Rosenfeld Media

If you’ve made it here, you’ve no doubt figured out—“this guy is writing a book about…” Well, what is this book about? Let me answer that with an email I received a few months ago from a health care organization: With the Affordable Care Act taking effect later this year, we are all very focused … Continued

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I can draw. I went to art school. I studied painting until I fell out with the abstract expressionists and switched to photography. But I can draw. What I cannot do is diagram. I always wanted to. ...

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Visual Definitions of User Experience

This constantly update collection started with 12 diagrams presented at the first “UX Russia” conference in 2007. Now there are more than 200. My goal is not …

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Recommended book for effective storytelling through images.

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The Wilderness Downtown

Check out Arcade Fire's new interactive HTML5 music experience, “The Wilderness Downtown”.

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Cooking as alchemy

Homaro Cantu and Ben Roche come from Moto, a Chicago restaurant that plays with new ways to cook and eat food. But beyond the fun and flavor-tripping, there's a serious intent: Can we use new food technology for good?