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No Ideas But In Things

by Dan

I had been waiting until I had a larger collection of images and movies, but since Core 77 outed it yesterday, no sense in waiting.

Inspired first by Bill DeRouchey’s History of the Button, then by Andy Clarke’s talk at Web Directions South, in which he implored designers to look to the real world for inspiration, I have a new side project: No Ideas But In Things.

NIBIT is a collection of buttons, dials, control panels, animations, latches, etc. that could be used as a source of inspiration for interaction and interface design. It’s not overly robust now, but hopefully soon it will be.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, October 18th, 2006 at 7:56 am and is filed under Creativity, Interaction Design, Interface Design, Product Design. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

One Response to “No Ideas But In Things”

  1. Darin Says:
    April 11th, 2007 at 2:47 am

    I see your No Idea but Things,
    the blog just very fine, and I think you blogging about panel control?
    I like your blog as much as I like history of the button
    good work!

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