Ricardo Sato

Bluetooths accessories showroom

Brazilian illustrator

The Interface Hall of Shame is an irreverent collection of common interface design mistakes. Our hope is that by highlighting these problems, we can help developers avoid making similar mistakes.

Mac OS X, Windows and Linux/UNIX desktop managers such as Gnome and KDE have a similar purpose and, as such, similar shortcomings. This site is designed to be a source of “dos” and “don’ts” for interface designers and application developers.

A scrapbook of illustrated examples of things that are hard to use because they do not follow human factors principles. By Michael J. Darnell

This gallery is a collection of File Open dialogs that have been created for Windows over the years. If you thought opening a file was a simple task you thought wrong.

With all of the tools, standards, and examples out there, so many developers still manage to produce truly horrible UIs. This gallery is an homage to the many bad user interfaces (BUIs) encountered in our time.

Fragmentos que constroem um caminho, um todo ou seria apenas mais uma parte?

At the heart of the modu ecosystem is modu – a tiny, sleek & sophisticated mobile phone.

Benefits and issues on nanotechnology based batteries

By measuring nanoscale forces, researchers learn to make lithium-ion batteries that pull themselves together.

Lithium-ion batteries seem to be everywhere these days. They get their name from the lithium ion that moves from the anode to the cathode during discharge and from the cathode to the anode during recharging.

Device and network capabilities are improving, platforms are giving us more features to help the user, privacy and security are becoming more important, and device proliferation is both increasing and decreasing.

May 28 – The BSR Blind Phone, Zeemote and the Couple It are among the mobile concepts attracting attention at the Mobile User Experience (MEX) conference in London.

Google’s latest Android prototype is miles improved over the versions we last saw. Back at CES the GUI was clunky and the whole thing looked relatively primative; Google themselves asked us to keep an open mind and instead concentrate on the OS’ poten

The ATTIGO TT was created by Scott Hobbs, a student at Dundee University studying innovative product design. For his final year project he’s created a touch screen turntable that lets DJ’s loop, sample and scratch wave forms just as you would a record

The purpose of the Victoria and Albert Museum is to enable everyone to enjoy its collections and explore the cultures that created them; and to inspire those who shape contemporary design.

Tate Modern is the national gallery of international modern art. Located in London, it is one of the family of four Tate galleries which display selections from the Tate Collection.

Madame Tussauds is constantly developing. From immersive themed entertainments to imaginative use of state-of-the-art technology, we are proud to bring our customers a truly ground-breaking and contemporary experience.

Data visalization chart with interactive filters

BUG is a collection of easy-to-use electronic modules that snap together to build any gadget you can imagine. Each BUGmodule represents a specific gadget function (ex: a camera, a keyboard, a video output, etc.).

Many Eyes is a bet on the power of human visual intelligence to find patterns. Our goal is to “democratize” visualization and to enable a new social kind of data analysis.

Organized by data visualization, information visualization, concept visualization, strategy visualization, metaphor visualization and compound visualization.

An application prototype, part of Master thesis The Form of Facts by Christian Behrens.

Nice tab navigation effects

A really simple and functional CMS to designers and content editors.

Research in pervasive and ubiquitous computing suggests a future in which we are surrounded by information sources, all competing for our attention. These information sources may manifest as both novel devices and as devices embedded in common objects.

Typically centering around complex technology systems such as software, mobile devices, and other electronic devices, Interaction Design (IxD) is the discipline of defining the behavior of products and systems that a user can interact with.

Mobile Design is one of the largest communities of visual, interaction and web designers for mobile devices in the world.

Content delivery modes explained

Auto SMS delivery

Sarah Bloomer & Co specializes in design research and design facilitation based on user centered design techniques.

UX event

A concept for a flat player in touchscreen devices.

Nokia Institute of Technology overview as a technoogy developer at the Industrial pole of Manaus – Brazil.

Yeah, I can try

Software to improve design, animation and development integration

Improved image replacement

ThickBox is a webpage UI dialog widget written in JavaScript on top of the jQuery library. Its function is to show a single image, multiple images, inline content, iframed content, or content served through AJAX in a hybrid modal

Every mobile phone model is tested for radio wave emissions. A measurement is made using an internationally agreed method that meets government and regulatory standards. This gives the SAR value, which must be below an agreed level.

Stencils for OminiGraffe (http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnigraffle/)

Search engine to Wikipedia

Sort of intetersting plugins to wordpress

Scenarios an technologies from the future

Your free verbal message board … for exchanging location-specific community information … any place with any mobile phone!

The main skills needed to a interaction designer and academic references

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How IxD can be considered inside Industrial design.

At MoMA

Two Google scientists presented a paper (pdf embedded below) at the World Wide Web Conference in Beijing last week that outlines their vision for the future of image search.

The waiting time for digital systems and it’s effects over the user.

Topics to consider when (re)designing a blog. Concepts, techniques and some plugins

To keep in touch with parents and other relatives abread, immigrants users uses VoIP, Skype and other features.

Design the next generation iPhone

Nokia Energy Profiler is a stand-alone test and measurement application for S60 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 1 devices (and onwards). The application allows developers to test and monitor their application’s energy usage in real time in the target device.

How designers agregates values to IT

A serie of articles from the Serious Play conference coverage

Your portfolio isn’t ready yet? Why? Didn’t you ever designed anything?
It’s easier to say sorry than ask for permission

Google Friend Connect lets you grow traffic by easily adding social features to your website. With just a few snippets of code, you get more people engaging more deeply with your site.

For non talking/listening people writes messeages in mobile phones.

User customizations over the mobile device

3D, text and drawing improved. Among a lots of other improvements

An incredible eye-candy newsreader

You can’t get away from the web these days, regardless of your profession. Even non-web freelancers find quickly that that a website is not only expected by clients, but a critical marketing tool.

iPhoneSynth, a Roland TR-909 digital version to iPhone. Sequencers, patterns and drum sounds with bpm control.

‘The reality is we are moving away from the product-centric approach. The big challenge is designing the experience,’ he says.

With the technology still prohibitively expensive, fully interactive signage could remain in the realms of cinematic fantasy, but three recent, small-scale projects using architecture and dynamic content might point the way forward, says Scott Billings

‘archetypes’ is a new exhibition displaying the work of ettore sottsass from the years of 1965 -1995.
ettore sottsass’s career spanned over 60 years and this exhibition features rarelyseen glass sculptures and furniture.

the bibliodyssey blog (http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2008/05/sottsass-pompidou.html) recently posted these ettore sottsass drawings from the collection of centre pompidou.

At first glance the Myhab appears to be another design for temporary disaster housing; in fact it’s designed for a more frivolous purpose–housing festival-going hippies and groupies.