Adaptive Path Blog

Happy 3rd of July!

We think this visualization of UX diagram creates more questions than it answers…which makes it interesting.

Yea! Whitney Hess has captured the best and brightest of resources in her post So you want to be a UX designer.

We’re hip on these magnetic pieces of wireframe goodness…

Sticky Note fruit. Really, there’s nothing more to say about this…except AWESOME.

How many of these tools do you still have? Check your standing at the Museum of forgotten art supplies.

And now we’re all waxing nostalgic about the Sony Walkman.

Got a great idea for a mobile app or business? Enter the sidewalk.com / Citysearch contest.

Our dream is to host UX Week 2010 in this amazing thing.

Speaking of Love Boat, what was missing from your last sexual experience? If your answer was “charts, graphs, and other quantitative data,” then this application is for you.

What’s the shape of your ‘hood? Flickr photos reveals the emerging boundaries of where we live.

GOOD asks “can augmented reality finally make it easy to do the right thing?”

Which prompts the rest of us to ask “what the hell is augmented reality?” Here’s a look at two augmented reality experiences, and why they might matter.

For super-duper alternate-reality, check out Keith Loutit’s Little Sydney project, which has us oooing and ahhing over the tilt-shifty view of life.

And as a compelling alternative to the hustle-and-go, Dave Gray’s been making pocket universes on Flickr.

Thinking about heading out into the stratosphere? Start by reading about spacesuits.

What’s the difference in Pixar vs. Dreamworks Story Development? The secret revealed.

And finally, we leave you with some hot and spicy library porn…sure to put the fireworks to shame!

Happy Independence Day!

Are you working to develop your child’s inner rhetorician?

Farson’s thoughts on management, design and future of leadership.

Maira Kalman wants to tell you everything.

Busy? Then you’ll want to avoid Hobnox’s Audiotool.

For those that like their humor with a bit of darkness, The Terrible Thing of Alpha-9!

Future Perfect insights around technology use in regard to issues of privacy, security and trust.

What happens when a girl gets a chance?

Both beautiful and frightening, 26 million individual road segments defining the “lower 48.”

Tonchidot has plans to help us tag the world around us.

Navi Radjou on how Microsoft Reinvents Its Global R&D Model.

And of course: the white glove.

This week, the revolution was twittered.

OXO takes a “Charmr” approach to syringes

A little bit of stop-motion fun

An experiment playing a homeless family in Sims 3 by a student in the UK. He follows their story over a series of blog posts.

Seed Design Series has some great videos from Natalie Jeremijenko, Lisa Strausfeld, Neri Oxman and more…

The Adaptive Path SF office door fits nicely into Dave Gray’s “Doors I have known” compilation on Flickr

The Incredible Century Old Color Photography of Prokudin-Gorsky

We’ll leave you with words of wisdom from Seth Godin.

Apple’s massive wall of pulsating app icons entranced us, as did Oliver’s simple fluid dynamics simulator.

Monster’s new tabletop universal remote control scared us.

Matt Jones’s presentation on the convergence of products and services echoed some of Brandon’s thoughts from earlier this year.

Rebecca Blood passed along a list of recent design books from Design Observer as part of her annual roundup of summer reading lists.

Controversy raged at Adaptive Path this week on these questions:

Does Hugh MacLeod offer insights on creativity or just amusing doodles?

Do netbooks truly inhabit the zone of suck?

Do we really need fewer engineers and more anthropologists, or do we already have plenty of both?

Is Twitter really “the preserve of a few”, and if so, does it matter?

How much of the short film Deadline was done with real sticky notes, and how much was Photoshop?

Is The Uniform Project an inventive approach to a public art project, or narcissism masquerading as awareness-raising?

If you need to explain venn diagrams, or sporks.

McDonald’s figures out how to integrate web memes into their business.

An open letter to American Airlines about their website design sparks a discussion about large organizations’ difficulty in making real change.

It’s a whiteboard! It’s a toaster! It’s the WHITEBOARD THAT TOASTS! Wireframing was never so delicious!

Clay Shirky on social media and the emotional dimension of news.

DataIsNature blurs the line between science and art.

Get ready to connect. The FT on connectivity.

A non-visual interface for mobile phones is being developed by Google, lead by a blind research scientist.

Philip C. Bolger, 81, Dies; Prolific Boat Designer.

Rethinking the mall.

Eric Karjaluoto: Drones at the karaoke lounge of design.

UX Week 2008 speaker Johnny Lee has been working on the compelling Project Natal hands-free controller for Xbox.

GOOD Magazine has created an archive of their excellent infographics.

Vote on this Wired article which reviews the safety of Internet voting.

A reliable and trustworthy platform for Mobile Banking.

The Flimsy Doorknob and a Forgettable Receipt – Two stories about how even the greatest experiences can be turned on their head by poorly considered details.

A great new branding/typography/interactive design blog.

From McKinsey&Company: In less than 20 years, the Internet has transformed the way we shop, socialize, and communicate. What’s next?

Friends introduce more type for the web through Typekit

Vintage IDEO videos resurface from ABC’s Nightline. “You’ve got to hire people that don’t listen to you!”

Ian Delaney: Surrender! Foucault and Twitter.

The Pursuit of Happiness by Maira Kalman.

When in doubt, be inspired. Olivetti.

Tinkering to the future.

Nokia’s Ovi and the need for more user-centeredness.

Open-Source Data Models?

From the New York Times: Pentagon Plans New Arm to Wage Cyberspace Wars.

Two interesting looks at border redistribution, courtesy of Strange Maps: Russia to US: You’re Breaking Up (Too) and  My Kingdom for a Beer? Heineken’s “Eurotopia”.

Our amazing Dan Harrelson harnesses Yahoo’s Placemaker to create mapZING.

The hush hush Mecca redesign gets leaked and is not a disappointment.

Many of us do work that feels more surreal than real. Working in an office, you often find it difficult to see any tangible result from your efforts. What exactly have you accomplished at the end of any given day? Where the chain of cause and effect is opaque and responsibility diffuse, the experience of individual agency can be elusive.

450 words individually synced and animated to the famous monologue from the 1977 movie The Network. This animation took about 18 hours over the course of 3 days to make.

An illustrator draws to his daughter’s brief (she’s the art director) and then she crits the piece… and nearly always rejects it.

Good experiences are more important than price, even in this economy.

Who knew it was fridgefriday? What’s the inside of your fridge look like?

A real human experience. Give it a little time…

We were recently sent some fun analysis on how gaming can inform the social web from our friends at smart.fm.

Before launching your next project it may be useful to check-off some items from these lists.

This one has come around more than once but we wanted to prop the Story of Stuff once again.

Just do it (often), content strategy doesn’t have to be monolithic.

Its hard not to love the horizontal web.

The New York Times isn’t standing still while technology rocks the newspaper industry.

More fun hands-on Arduino ideas.

Have you ever went to a business where they asked you to wear something that revealed your backside for all to see? Well the idea of redesigning the hospital gown is long over due.

International Bike to Work day was last Thursday, a suburb in Germany gives a glimpse to what life would be like if Bike to Work day was everyday.

We are happy to see e-ink making its way into other devices.

We wonder if large sites will be forced to stop access to developing countries due to high traffic and low advertising potential?

Turning images into music (code provided!)

Is design still a boys club?

John Thackara on doctors with iPhones…

A film project about the power of mass collaboration, government and the internet – watch the video

Nathan Waterhouse of IDEO on organization design and gardening

Optix: Inlingua (worth watching)

Sports media with their data-obsessed fans are pushing the boundaries on data visualization, read up on these great blogs to learn more.

Do you throw away prototypes, or can you create carry-forward prototypes with production in mind?

Bold NASA interns are stealing moon rocks.

Curious about economics and design? John Heskett’s paper Creating Economic Value by Design runs through the major economic theories through the ages and what they say about how design creates value.

Are designers in the behavior business? Peter Merholz says it is about how customers behave.

Check out John Thackara’s white paper: Clean Growth: From Mindless Development to Design Mindfulness (PDF)

I.D. magazine pokes at what’s really wrong with the design of new American baseball parks.

Becky Bermont on How Artist/Leaders Do Things Differently.

YouTube is doomed? Or just needs some course corrections?

Do you think ‘user centered design’ has lost its meaning?

The economy got you thinking about pricing? The AIGA provides Pricing Strategies for a Value-Driven Industry.

We’re intrigued by the new Design Business Review and it’s print-on-demand approach.

Which Creative Suite pillow are you?

Talking Gadget Theater II: The Kindle 2 and iPod Shuffle perform Wrath of Khan

Tired of short URLs? Us too. That’s why we use HugeURL.

If your keyboard doesn’t have LEDs, you’re doing it wrong.

NPR visualizes the U.S. electric grid.

A new mobile database of social and mobile technology around the world.

May it please the Court