http://www.cognitivefriction.net User Experience Design Tue, 02 Sep 2008 11:03:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Today I'll be heading up to the Black North to attend a lecture at the Queens University of Belfast entitled Design Thinking for Innovation: Treat Your Company, Your Team, Your Products as Prototypes. It will be delivered by Michael Dearing, an associate professor at the Design School at Stanford University. Michael ... http://www.cognitivefriction.net/2008/09/02/design-thinking-for-innovation-lecture/ I've had the iPhone 3G for about two weeks now, and patterns of use are starting to emerge, apart from the obvious: making calls, sending texts and checking email. Although, even here, buying the phone has led to some changes. For example, I made an effort to rationalise, synchronise and ... http://www.cognitivefriction.net/2008/08/17/the-iphone-3g-in-use/ I came across Jeff Gomez' book Print is Dead: Books in our Digital Age while browsing through Hodges Figgis the other day. I couldn't help but savour the irony that Gomez' work came as a rather large chunk of dead tree. Reports of the death of print are frequent and ... http://www.cognitivefriction.net/2008/08/14/report-of-the-death-of-print-wildly-exaggerated/ I finally got my iPhone 3G. I picked it up two days ago and it's a white 16 GB model. So after all of the agonising I did over the wait, was it worth it? I think so. Here are my first impressions. More storage is better Well the first thing I ... http://www.cognitivefriction.net/2008/08/08/the-iphone-3g-first-impressions/ I have noticed a couple of interesting developments at two of the leading companies in the user experience design field: Cooper and Adaptive Path. Both companies seem to be taking a decisive step into the wider design territory occupied by companies such as Ideo and Frog Design. On July 9th, Adaptive ... http://www.cognitivefriction.net/2008/08/04/interesting-developments-at-cooper-and-adaptive-path/