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Selling new design ideas to know-it-alls.
May 14, 2024
This is an image of a Hohner Melodica Soprano from the 1950's.The other day I was at an event and needed some assistance with a certain task. I texted a contact that was on the other side of a very large building and they sent over another team member to help. When that other team member arrived, they had the wrong idea of why they were there. When I tried to explain the actual reason I needed assistance, I could read their body language and see a shift in their stance and an exhale of breath that said to me,...
UX Thinking In The Real World.
April 27, 2024
This is an image of a Porsche 550 Prototype Coupé, 1953.A few weeks ago I was invited to a soft opening of a new restaurant about half an hour north of downtown. I was shown how the customers can come right in and use a large touch screen to put in their orders for dining in or take-out. While I was being shown the interface I had so many questions about the user experience. The person who was showing me demo thought it was interesting that I was asking those questions and I then had to stop and realize I...
Children’s books.
April 23, 2024
This is an image of a poster for the promotion of Dick Bruna's work at Rijksmuseum.I have this idea to voice-over and animate children's books.
Bauhaus design.
April 16, 2024
This is an image of the Bauhaus Logo by designed by Oskar Schlemmer, 1922 I've been reading lately about Bauhaus, the German art school that was run from 1919 to 1933. The first time I even heard the name Bauhaus was from the dark rock goth band out of the UK. Their name was actually derived the school. The school was created after the First World War and shut down right before the Second World War by the German Reich. Many of the designers and teachers left Germany and spread their ideas westward in other areas of Europe and the US. I discovered...
Buttons.
April 14, 2024
This is an image of a National RQ 8030 Data Recorder - Japan, 1984. I was watching Terry Gilliam's "Brazil" when I noticed the elevator buttons in one specific scene. Lately I've been fascinated by buttons and tactile functions like what's found on mechanical keyboards. I would like to do some research on the history of buttons, how they changed over the decades and why. I'm curious if the evolution of buttons on devices like phones, or even the absence of them, have anything to do with solving a problem for the users or the developers and technologists.