Doctor's Note

A mix of essays and commentary about design, innovation, technology, society, coaching, personal and leadership development. Since 1996.

Webdagene 2012 Notes and Slides

From UX to Service Design workshop Thanks to everyone who took part in our From UX to Service Design workshop at Webdagene 2012 today. As promised here are the …

Touchpoint Observatory: Touch Elevator Buttons

I think I could write a whole series on lift buttons - I regularly see people struggle with this most rudimentary of interfaces. These buttons are from a smart …

formd

formd >formd is a tool for (for)matting (M)ark(d)own that allows rapid conversion between the two styles of Markdown links and images—inline and referenced. …

Dead Drops

Dead Drops is an interesting physical digital crossover from Aram Bartholl: ‘Dead Drops’ is an anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing network in public …

Bill Moggridge

It’s been a sad and bad year for interaction design losing some of its pioneers. Hillman Curtis, Andy Cameron and now Bill Moggridge, arguably the father …

Designers are not researchers: the difference between design and social research

Designers are not researchers: the difference between design and social research from Sam Ladner is worth a read by all designers engaging in this kind of work. …

PromptDown

PromptDown is a super simple, browser-based teleprompter for mobile devices (ideally Safari on iOS) that uses markdown for its markup. Paste some markdown text …

The Naked Sheep

I probably don’t blog about my students’ work enough, but this piece I particularly like because it was a collaboration between students who are …

Airbnb 10 Million Guest Nights Booked

Airbnb 10 Million Guest Nights Booked is a nice infographic showing just how much the service has grown over the past four years (up 720% here in Germany). I …

Little Digits - Finger Counting with the iPad

Little Digits (iTunes link) is a new iPad app from Chris O’Shea’s company Cowly Owl described as a “fun educational app that teaches children …