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Environmental Sustainability in User Experience Design
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User Experience Designers have a direct impact (their work) and an indirect impact (usage of their designs) on the environment we live in.
The latter is especially important: Since designers influence the behaviour of users through their designs, good or bad design decisions can multiply the good or bad effect it might have on the environment. Read more
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Latest Articles
- Tablet Talk
- Last saturday I have been part of the Breitband-Tabletgipfel, a broadcast by Breitband on Deutschlandradio Kultur. During the round table discussion Ben Schwan (tech journalist), Jörg Kantel aka Der Schockwellenreiter (blogger and IT-lead at Max-Planck-Institut), Jason Forrest (experimental music pioneer) and myself talked about the tablet market, closed systems vs open source, music production on [...] Read more – ‘Tablet Talk’.
- PAGE Coverage of Concept Development
- In addition to German industry experts, Page also asked me for some input on the topic. Unfortunately, the article about the web is not available online, but it is well worth purchasing the magazine. The report gives a good insight into how people work on usability and describes many different methods. It is especially worthwhile [...] Read more – ‘PAGE Coverage of Concept Development’.
- Design Patterns for Multitouch Tables
- Actually multitouch tables are designed to work completely intuitively. Unlike standard touch screens, the multitouch technology allows for use of more than one finger for controlling the screen, thus enabling interaction with gestures. Such a user interface is also referred to as a Natural User Interface (NUI) because elements of that interface can be handled [...] Read more – ‘Design Patterns for Multitouch Tables’.