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Crowd Sourcing What will changing innovation processes mean for design practitioners? "Adam Schilling, Senior Designer, 99designs.com Adam Schilling is passionate about design, typography, and freethinking. As Senior Designer and a founding member of 99designs.com, he's responsible for crafting user interfaces, conducting guerrilla usability testing, "

Design Lessons from Storytellers Alternative Uses of Storytelling The use of storytelling can be found in team-building, training and marketing. A short story may be used as an introduction, so that everybody starts to adjust their mindset to absorb and reflect the emotions and feelings embedded in the story and what comes next. You may find stories in business presentations, carefully written by content strategists, in advertising and, of course, in copywriting. It is easy to see how words and speech in different contexts can tell stories. We are used to reading and hearing stories, but how can you help tell a story with design?

"Is crowdsourcing killing the traditional design industry? "

"Is Crowdsourcing killing traditional design practice was published on 1st Sept and has received a fair bit of comment. I'm particularly interested to explore the potential for designers to expand their practice and capacity through social networks! ABC Radio By Design has invited me to speak on 7th October. I'm pretty keen to get more comments on the value of this concept so please feel free to add your thoughts!"

How do you design physical infrastructure that ties individuals together in meaningful ways?

How do you design physical infrastructure that ties individuals together in meaningful ways? 1. How do we let people personalize their identity in the museum such that they feel less like strangers and more like potential associates? 2. How do we design spaces that support sharing and intimacy among associated visitors?

Students developed a set of prototype smartphone apps for the Museum of Modern Art, based on a field study of museum visitors.

Students developed a set of prototype smartphone apps for the Museum of Modern Art, based on a field study of museum visitors. After synthesizing their research findings and developing a set of personas, the students began prototyping and testing their product concepts. Finally, they presented their concepts to a panel of representatives from the Museum of Modern Art. These presentations reflect the research and design methods used throughout the process.

German Traces NYC is mobile, augmented reality experience designed to let learners explore German cultural heritage in New York City. The application makes use of archival documents, photographs, and multimedia narratives to bring to life to this significant thread of New York City and United States history.

Purchase a membership you will not only be supporting a leading museum devoted to contemporary design in every form but you will also benefit from a closer association to the museum with regular e- newswires and exhibition updates, unlimited free access to all of our exhibitions for yourself + guest, free entry to late night openings, 10% discount in the Shop and Cafe and invitations to members Private Views.

Trying to fix an organization's content problems by installing a content management system (CMS) is like trying to save a marriage by booking a holiday. We know that a successful web project needs a content strategy-but when it comes to the CMS, we stop thinking strategically. Despite all the talk about user-centered design, we rarely consider the user experience of the editorial team-the people who implement the content strategy. We don't design a CMS, we install it.

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I was reminded of these two design principles when exploring the Johnny Cash Project, a crowd-created music video for a posthumous recording of Cash singing "Ain't No Grave." To construct the video, artist Chris Milk assembled images and footage of Johnny Cash in a sequence along with the song. That's hardly revolutionary. But what happened next is: Milk created a simple tool to invite visitors to augment the frames of the video with digital brushstrokes. The result is a beautiful animated video that composites together alternative frames created by participants all over the world.

But the simplest evidence I have for the statement that design impacts visitor contributions comes from a formative evaluation performed at LACMALab for their nano exhibition in 2004. In the report, evaluator Marianna Adams described a simple experiment in visitor response. LACMALab took one question--"What connections do you see between art and science?"--and created two ways for visitors to respond. In March, visitors were offered white 4"x6" notecards and golf pencils. In April, these were replaced with blue hexagonal cards and full-size pencils.

Students developed a set of prototype smartphone apps for the Museum of Modern Art, based on a field study of museum visitors. After synthesizing their research findings and developing a set of personas, the students began prototyping and testing their product concepts. Finally, they presented their concepts to a panel of representatives from the Museum of Modern Art. These presentations reflect the research and design methods used throughout the process.

Since 2001, Stamen has developed a reputation for beautiful and technologically sophisticated projects in a diverse range of commercial and cultural settings.

Schweizer Designagentur, auch im Museumsbereich tätig

Most UX designers use qualitative research-typically in the form of usability tests-to guide their decision-making. However, using quantitative data to measure user experience can be a very different proposition. Over the last two years our UX team at Vanguard has developed some tools and techniques to help us use quantitative data effectively. We've had some successes, we've had some failures, we've laughed, we've cried, and we've developed ten key guidelines that you might find useful.

Element konzipiert und plant in den Bereichen Szenografie, öffentlicher, Raum, Architektur und Innenarchitektur

Ziel des Projektes ist es, die Grundlagen für einen sinnlich erfahrbaren Ausstellungsraum für Zukunftswissen (Tangible Info Space) zu schaffen. Gemeinsam mit den Ausstellungsgestaltern element GmbH wird vom Institut Design- und Kunstforschung der Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst (IDK) und dem Museum für Kommunikation Bern (MfK) ein System aus Raumparametern und 3 Prototypen entwickelt, welches im MfK nach Abschluss des Projektes umgesetzt und künftig von element GmbH als «Toolbox» für Ausstellungen weiterentwickelt und vermarktet wird.

The ubiquity of mobile devices and the advent of augmented reality provide an opportunity to explore the use of interactive design in what is traditionally a difficult educational space: the art museum. The NGA Experience app (shown here on an iPhone but theoretically platform-agnostic) uses augmented reality to populate the art museum with a digital layer of content that is virtually infinite, yet completely optional for visitors. Such an application of AR in the museum ultimately provides a greater level of control and engagement to the museum visitor and enhances his or her opportunity for a meaningful experience without altering the physical space of the gallery.

Die Mitmach-Revolution Die im Museum für Kommunikation konzipierte DIY-Ausstellung zeigt die Vielfalt und Relevanz des Selbermachens, in seinen historischen Rahmenbedingungen zwischen Arbeit und Freizeit. Insbesondere an Beispielen aus der Kommunikations- und Mediengeschichte lassen sich Veränderungen und Unterschiede beim Selbermachen aufzeigen. Die Ausstellung thematisiert selbstmotivierte Praktiken der Medienamateure, Heimwerker, Tüftler und Dilettanten. Sie zeigt die Entwicklung der Amateurkulturen vom 19. Jahrhundert bis hin zur Web 2.0-Nutzung der Gegenwart. Bis 26. Februar lief die Ausstellung in Frankfurt, ab 30. März wird sie im Museum für Kommunikation Berlin zu sehen sein