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January 20, 2009

Links of the day

forum to get a font figured out: http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/
help identifying a font: http://www.identifont.com/identify.html

website tracking the latest changes to brands: http://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/

examples of new tropicana and pepsi branding:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jlai321/tags/branding

article about Pepsi's change of logo

Five Types of Marks for Logo Design

Helvetica documentary, can be checked out at Rotch
alternatives to Helvetica
Helvetica vs. Arial

book cover archive

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January 15, 2009

Links of the Day

BusinessWeek column about business and innovation:
http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/NussbaumOnDesign/

IDEO's book on their processes:

Steve Jobs takes medical leave from Apple

Pepsi's new image

Burger King and Whopper Sacrifice Facebook app
http://bit.ly/133Av

Want to read more about prototyping and prototypes?  The academic paper from which today's lecture material came.

That's so (f)oldschool!

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January 12, 2009

Links of the Day

Books on visual thinking/drawing:
(mentioned by Barry) Understanding Comics - http://bit.ly/83bX
The Back of the Napkin (geared more towards businessmen, but very good) - http://bit.ly/2t4SLs
The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain - http://bit.ly/sj4G

Now that you've done a bit of observation, follow Jan Chipchase, a researcher at Nokia who blogs about observations he makes about the world around him.  A favorite of mine.  You might have seen his name as the author of the NYTimes article this spring, "Can the Cellphone Help End Global Poverty?"

http://www.janchipchase.com/
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/13/magazine/13anthropology-t.html?partner=permalink&exprod=permalink

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January 12, 2009

robot guitar

Gibson came out with a robot guitar early last year that automatically tunes the strings for you.  They improved on the initial design with the Dark Fire guitar, which was presented during CES.  More information can be found here:

http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/10/video-gibson-dark-fire-guitar-hands-on/

Tiff


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January 10, 2009

Links of the Day

Every day, I'll post interesting links, blogs, mentioned or related to lecture.  Feel free to post your own links that you find!

Video on manufacturing of new MacBook
http://www.apple.com/macbook/#designvideo

Dvorak Simplified Keyboard
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvorak_Simplified_Keyboard

Design of Everyday Things, by Don Norman
Amazon link - http://www.amazon.com/Design-Everyday-Things-Donald-Norman/dp/0385267746
Norman's website - http://www.jnd.org/
Norman talks about how user-centered design is not always the answer - http://interactions.acm.org/content/?p=261 (might need to be on MIT connection, 18. IP address)


More info on Kano diagram seen in class
http://www.c2c-solutions.com/kano_tutorial.htm

Blogs:
http://www.core77.com/ - Industrial/Product design
http://www.experientia.com/blog/ - User experience

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