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In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty. —Phil Ochs

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iOS8 update, choose your identity ^^

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This was made in 1990, sponsored by the ACM CHI 1990 conference, to tell the history of widgets up until then.

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Myo - Wearable Gesture Control from @thalmic Labs

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Nitti Grotesk as an example of great font readability in interfaces 

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Designing Creativity 

How design can be used to solve complex problems and issues in society such as education, healthcare and environment.

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Cool Fireside Chat with Matias Duarte #Android #Design

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The best interface is no interface

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On the 27th of Nov Google released a Chrome extension - Google Voice Search Hotword - that enables voice search from a desktop.

With the extension installed, voice search works just like it does on the Nexus 5. When Google.com is open, just say "Ok Google" and then your search request.

The hotword even works when you're already on a search page enabling never-ending dialog with Voice Search Engine. You can just say "Ok Google" again and search for something else. 

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Google I/O 2013 - Cognitive Science and Design

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When all the standard vimeo player elements are disabled, a centred pause/play button is the only control left (visible while hovering on video). But now it works not only as an on/off switcher but serves as a progress bar, communicating a video download status / location time-wise during a video playback. 

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The purpose of user experience design is to create personal value. We’re not here to reduce risk. We’re not here to massage conversion rates. We’re here to make things that improve people’s lives. In doing so, our companies profit in both senses of the word. It’s insufficient to judge our industry by the ROI we generate, or our contribution toward GDP. We should judge our industry by the happiness we create.

Cennydd Bowles

PS. We are designers, not managers

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Carnegie Mellon University Professor, Jesse Schell, gives amazing speech about game production and possible ways of our everyday life gamification. Scary...

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Maps zooming on your iPhone

Usually you have to pinch and zoom with one hand while holding your phone with the other, but not with Google maps and its  zooming gesture that only requires one hand and one finger. 

Here’s how it works:

Double tap the screen, but hold your finger down on the second tap. Then slide your finger up and down to zoom.

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Geeklist - Shows how long it would take for your password to be cracked in the sign up form.

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2011/02 Debbie Millman

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Alternative character picker for the browser

Quentin from TOKI WOKI has built a JavaScript character picker that works much the same way as the pickers on mobile devices do: hold down a key and you’ll be presented with alternatives.

Here is the demo

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One-click deleting - just hover over a tag in tumblr to see a cross-line pointing to possible action on mouse click.  No need to invent something new, use some skeuomorphic visual notifier