Seriously i don’t know why i am not working for pixar or dreamworks, cause some one there gets it… the usability factor and how people behave when operating such badly design products. so watch this next joke.
via Pixar short film featuring bad UIs and alien abductions- 90 Percent of Everything.
I laugh way to hard for this one. it goes beyond LOL to i hit my hand on the table in pain humor reaction!
just watch it! now you know why i love cartoons!
via Monsters Vs Aliens UI Design Joke- 90 Percent of Everything.
just came across this and like the graphic interface influence on the cover. it is weird thinking this phone was made back in 2008… LOL
via LINK.
I seen several designs for solar panel cellphones, i personally think this phone execute it the best. in terms of style, aesthetics, and behavior. What bugs me about samsung’s solarphone is that they put the panel on the back of the phone. Who in their right mind want to put their phone’s screen upside down. People fear to get their screen scratched up! They really need to understand user behavior and their relationship towards their phones, people are just as bad with phones as with their cars!
An environmentally-friendly mobile phone debuted in Japan, which is now enjoying an “eco boom.” It is Sharp Corp’s “Solar Phone SH002″ released by KDDI Corp as one of its summer 2009 models of the au brand mobile phones.
The SH002 is equipped with a solar cell module on the back of its chassis. The solar cell module can be used as an auxiliary power source when the remaining battery level is low or zero. Though Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and LG Electronics Inc announced handsets with similar concepts at Mobile World Congress 2009, which took place in February 2009, Sharp is the first company that released such a product in Japan.
via [Solar Phone Teardown] Sharp Debuts Solar-powered Handset [Part 1] — Tech-On!.
I tweet this video ten days ago… it is a Japanese commercial for the product.
Cell phones have evolved immensely since 1983, both in design and function.
From the Motorola DynaTAC, that power symbol that Michael Douglas wielded so forcefully in the movie “Wall Street”, to the iPhone 3G, which can take a picture, play a video, or run one of the thousands applications available from the Apple Store.
There are thousands of models of cell phones that have hit the streets between 1983 and now.
via The Evolution of Cell Phone Design Between 1983-2009 | Webdesigner Depot.
sometimes i love the world we live in… and how it can “get better” or in my definition COOLIO!
want some OLED on your ticket booths? they tried electronic ink but that is failing so switching to OLED is making head ways for the advertisement community.
User-Generated Devices UGD, allowing people to enjoy themselves making their own equipment with friends, are making a showing in the electronics industry, fueled by the outsourcing of development and manufacturing, open constituent technologies, and other trends. Only companies capable of discarding the paradigm of volume production will be able to evolve apace with this new dimension in user participation.
The electronics industry has delivered a wide variety of entertainment to consumers: radio, television, audio, mobile phones, games and more. The enormous quantity of equipment shipped from the factories of electronics manufacturers has fascinated users around the globe. Profits from sales provided the capital for new research and development R&D, creating a host of new technologies. Electronics grew into a gigantic industry by delivering identical products to as many users as possible…
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One excellent example is the development environment represented by widgets, now enjoying increasing use in PCs and becoming available to digital appliance users as well. In Sept 2008, Sony Corp of Japan began supplying the widget development tools for the AppliCast content download function packaged with its liquid crystal display (LCD) TVs to individual users. Although the tool had formerly been available only to professional developers, Sony released it to the general public. Widgets created by individuals run on the TVs. Similar tools are also provided by a host of newly emerged manufacturers in Internet appliances such as chumby industries inc of the US, in the form of “Web gadgets”.
The movement toward providing an environment supporting unrestricted Internet service to users, by mounting browsers, is spreading from flatscreen TVs into digital cameras. A variety of miniature detachable modules are available for digital appliances now, making it possible for users to modify shape, function and other characteristics with plug-ins.
In the second quarter of 2009, modu Ltd of Israel will release a mobile phone that can change its appearance, function, etc to match specific usage. The ultra-compact mobile phone is inserted into a “jacket” module for use, and a variety of different jackets offer various designs, functions, etc, as needed.
All of these activities, however, are likely to create new ways to enjoy digital appliances, thanks to unique user ideas.
Equipment manufacturers provide the platforms, but users are thinking up ways to use them that the manufacturers never imagined. If these new uses appeal to a large number of users, all of a sudden a best-selling product is born.
Users no longer merely passively receive information from manufacturers, mass media and other sources, because now the environment makes it easy for them to obtain specialized information such as manufacturer technology. This simplified access is not limited to merely end products, but is rapidly spreading to the R&D field, almost in the realm of constituent technology, where specialized knowledge is crucial….
found a very convient use to study the people going to your website and such… lets start improving our work in this arena…
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Technology Review: Color E-Paper That Rivals the Real Thing.
Despite Amazon’s promise to reinvent the newspaper and magazine industry with its new, large-screen Kindle DX electronic reader, some people may be reluctant to embrace the technology until full-color displays are possible. A new approach developed by Philips now offers fresh hope for color e-paper displays that are so bright and clear that even traditional liquid crystal displays (LCDs) will pale in comparison.
According to Kars-Michiel Lenssen, who headed the work at Philips Research, based in Eindhoven, in the Netherlands, the new approach has the potential to create color images that are three times brighter than displays that use color filters, including LCDs. “This is the closest an electronic-paper technology ever got to printed paper,” he says.
Color displays normally require four subpixels–red, green, blue, and white–to create each full-color pixel. “That costs you in terms of resolution,” says Pieter van Lieshout, head of product research and development for Polymer Vision, which was spun off from Philips Electronics three years ago to develop flexible electronic-paper displays.
