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GKB launched in market by HP Labs

HP launches gesture-based keyboard
Hindu, India
INNOVATION IN TECHNOLOGY: Richard H. (Dick) Lampman, Senior Vice President, Research, HP and Director, HP Labs and Ajay Gupta, Director, Mobility Solutions, at ...

HP's Input Device Enables Vernacular Language Users
EFYTimes, India
Wednesday, March 15, 2006: To take computer literacy beyond the prevailing English-speaking computer users, HP India has launched a path-breaking innovation ...

HP Labs unveils pen keyboard for Indian languages
DailyIndia.com, NY

Bangalore, March 15 (IANS) HP Labs India Wednesday introduced its pen-based keyboard for Indian languages, including Devanagari (Hindi), Kannada and Tamil. ...

WHEN most other design firms were still using the same old focus-group techniques, IDEO invented the unfocus group, in which side conversations among participants are also recorded — to hear what they were really thinking. Finding out not just what people really think, but also how they really live, is the lifeblood of IDEO's innovative design work.

Design at the Design Museum

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The photograph gallary

Eiffel Tower | a V-tour

Yams playground

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All Your Prey

IDFuel

The Industrial Design Weblog

The world's tallest virtual building

Electric Heat

Electric Heat

Clock

Wana buy good clock for your home ???

Aaron Jasinski

Aaron Jasinski

FindSounds

The Sound Galary

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Wana fly

Collecting best practice web standards design examples

collecting best practice web standards design examples

The Museum of Anti-Alcohol Posters

The Museum of Anti-Alcohol Posters

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Fifth Annual Weblog Awards

Google Code: Web Authoring Statistics

Web Authoring Statistics

Don Norman Interview

Don Norman wears many hats – Professor of Computer Science, Psychology and Cognitive Science at Northwestern University; Visiting Professor at Stanford University; principal of the Nielsen Norman user experience consulting group; and columnist for both ACM Interactions and InteriorMotives magazines. Bjoern Hartmann caught up with Don at his home in downtown Palo Alto to find out how he ended up at Stanford and what he is working on at the moment.

Don Norman Interview

The Golden Mean

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SimplytheBest Fonts lib...

Type face lib

paper works

paper works

Big Head with Full Of Mini Movies

Full Of Mini Movies

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The new Office 12

Office with new User Interface

Extreme Engineering

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Reviews-Yahoo mail Beta with new interface

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The Designers' Lunchbox

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The aging process

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BBDO- Interactive

BBDO

AJAX

AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) is a newly coined term for two powerful JavaScript features that have been around for years, but were overlooked by many web developers until recently when applications such as Gmail, Google suggest and Google Maps hit the streets.

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Ipod Nano

Take everything you love about iPod and shrink it — then shrink it again. Now meet iPod nano, the pencil-thin marvel featuring a color display, up to 14 hours of battery life and space for up to 1,000 skip-free songs, audiobooks and podcasts.

iPod Nano

Common Industry Format for usability Test

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Art direction + Graphic Design +Illustration

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Fine art photograph Gallary

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Dalilips by BD Design

The precedent for the furniture designed by Salvador Dalí, for which Bd Ediciones de Diseño has the exclusive world marketing rights, is the famous sofa in the shape of a mouth which the artist created together with oscar tusquets in 1972 for the Mae West room at the Dalí Museum in Figueres.More than thirty years had to pass before it became possible to put this sensual design into industrial production.It is nothing more than a technologically innovative version of that modelwhich has now been renamed, dalilips and presented to the public.

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Photoshop and Flash Tutorials | Video

Photoshop Flash

Essential Fonts For Designers

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Learn how to use 3D modeling and animation software.

3D Buzz is a wonderful community-based site where you can learn how to use the all the high-end 3D modeling and animation software used to make all of today's blockbuster CGI movies. They have days worth of free VTMs (Video Training Modules) for download and very helpful forums, plus a great semi-regular podcast.

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A history of the Photoshop U.I.

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Why Japan, and not America

Fun vs. Function

The contrast between the two most popular consumer robots in the world, America's Roomba and Japan's Aibo, tells you everything you need to know about the two cultures' respective feelings about thinking machines.

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Mobile Review

At the IFA 2005 exhibition in Berlin Philips demonstrates its recent development – the Readius concept, which is a proto of a customer device equipped with electronic paper. It is based on the PV-QML5 flex display, which can be rolled in a tube. The developers of the Readius applied this very feature – the display gets rolled into the device. In result we have a compact and really mobile device.


Philips Electronics has announced two new players of the GoGear series.

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Usability Testing in Input Device Design

Adaptations of standard HCI software usability tests can often help inform control-layout decisions within an input device (particularly when the user's interaction with the device is visually guided, e.g., remote controls). Candidate layouts can even be software-prototyped and tested using a touch screen. However, rarely can these standard tests provide usability information on the attributes of the controls themselves (e.g., the resistance of the buttons, the control-display transfer function, etc.. This article describes some useful techniques which specifically address the usability problems faced in input device design. It illustrates how usability testing can guide (rather than just validate and confirm) design decisions and become an integral part of the design process. This article will help you target/design usability tests which insure the information obtained is most applicable to future design iterations.

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Math equations to Visual form

Nice Graphic calculator.
Convert any maths equation in Visual form.

Features:
2D curves
3D surfaces
Inequalities
Save movies
Save for Web saves HTML & PNG files
Save as RTF export to word processors
Polar, cylindrical, spherical coordinates
Define functions and variables
Piecewise defined functions
Complex number arithmetic
Multiple equations
Implicit curves and surfaces
Parametric curves and surfaces
Contour plots
Density plots
Color maps
Coordinate transformations
Vector fields in two and three dimensions
Curves and surfaces in four dimensions
Ordinary differential equations
Direction fields
Functions of complex variables
Interactive complex parameters
Complex parametric curves
Conformal mapping
Complex surfaces

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Stanford d.school | Ambidextrous magazine

Ambidextrous Magazine is the design journal of the nascent Stanford d.school. It is a magazine for the wider design community, which includes engineers and ethnographers, psychologists and philosophers. Rather than focusing on promoting product, Ambidextrous exposes the people and processes involved in design.


Ambidextrous is a forum for the cross-disciplinary, cross-market community of people with an academic, professional and personal interest in design. The magazine is geared toward high subscriber participation and interaction. It is expressly designed to be informal, irreverent, and fun to read

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Ford Iosis Concept

This is Ford concept is set to debut at the Frankfurt show in September. It’s hard to believe this is a Ford, but if you look at previous concepts, like the Ford SAV, you can see the new direction their design team is taking. While the Iosis will probably never make it into production, especially for North America, elements of the design may find its way into other Ford products. We can’t help but think that the Mercury brand could use this kind of European flair to separate it from the pack. Regardless, the concept is beautiful and you have to admit that Ford has some talented designers in its ranks. Thanks to AGV for the tip.

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Creativity That Goes Deep

The topic of design is as hot as a pistol these days. Everywhere you look, you see cover stories and conferences. If it's design-related, people are talking about it. Firms everywhere want to revolutionize themselves by turning design-oriented. They look wistfully at the stupendous growth that the iconic iPod has provided previously stagnating Apple Computer (AAPL), and believe that design can help them create their own version of the iPod and restart their growth engines.

Great design is characterized by deep user understanding, visualization of creative resolution of tensions, collaborative prototyping to enhance solutions, and continuous modification and enhancement after launch. The result is design solutions that are easy for users to adopt, delightful for them to use, and likely to get better over time.

Corporate decisions, in contrast, are likely to be driven more by producer desires than user needs, accepting of unpleasant trade-offs generated without intensive involvement of users, and applied inflexibly. As a result, decisions tend to take a long time to make, often unravel, take expensive and time-consuming "buy-in" procedures, and are lower quality than they could be with greater user understanding and input.

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Experience Design Blog's

Creating Positive Context Chris Lawer of the OMC Group on customer innovation
Customer Experience Crossroads Susan Abbott on all the roads that cross at customer experience
Customer Experience Strategy Karl Long on aligning business goals with customer needs
Customer Intelligence Britton Manasco's blog on customer intelligence
Designing Great Experiences Matt Zellmer on the customer experience
Experience Designer Network Brian Alger discussing how we learn the things we value most
Experience Economy Evangelist Jeff Kallay is spreading the good news
The Experience Journal Kyle Coolbroth about customer experiences and their impact on business
Experience Manifesto The blog of David Polinchock's Brand Experience Lab
Good Experience Blog A blog on customer experience by Mark Hurst
The Good-Ideas Blog Chris Gielow catalogs good ideas in experience design
Improving Customer Experience Blog of Eric G. Myers
Kelake Clark MacLeod's on the broad discipline of experience design
Prototyping Social Capital Matthew Mahoney on innovation culture and experience design
Total Experience Bob Jacobson and Paula Thornton on the emerging practice of experience design
User Experience Network An open user experience network

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2=3 Proved ...........

It is said, Mr.Ramanujam (the great mathematician) has found it but never
disclosed it during his life time and that it has been found from his dairy.

-6 = -6

9-15 = 4-10

Adding 25/4 to both sides:

9-15+25/4 = 4-10+25/4

Changing the order

9+25/4-15 = 4+25/4-10

[This is just like 'a' square + 'b' square - two a b = (a-b) the whole
square.]

Hence as per the last step I is a = 3, b=5/2 for L.H.S and a =2, b=5/2 for
R.H.S.

So it can be expressed as follows:

(3-5/2)(3-5/2) = (2-5/2)(2-5/2)

Taking positive square root on both sides:

3 - 5/2 = 2 - 5/2

3 = 2 !!!!!!

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Podcast of BayCHI Events

Audio and visual recordings of BayCHI events are available here.









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Interview with flickr's eric costello

Eric Costello: I’m going to give a short history of Flickr, from its beginnings as a massively multiplayer online game called The Game Neverending, and slowly morphing over time into the Web app for photo sharing we now call Flickr. I think this will give some insight into the reason that Flickr works the way it does.

From there I’m going to talk a little bit about how our team operates, how we divide up duties in development and design, and how that leads to a good, collaborative process. I’ll also talk about how input from users has really influenced us, and how that all feeds into our process.

And then I’m going to talk a little bit about the UI features that we’re especially proud of, how they work, and why they work well. I’m going to present some challenges that some of the advanced UI features have presented, in terms of training users to understand what’s going on, and also talk a little bit about what the future holds for Flickr.

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xSort

xSort is a card sorting application for Mac OS X. It allows you to easily define a new card sorting problem, perform several sessions with multiple participants, and finally analyze the results (using multiple criteria) and generate printable reports.

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Music Magazine Magwerk

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Free Official Vista Icons Set

This site contains the all new icon set for Microsoft's new OS called Vista which will be released next year. Well over 113 "new look" .ico icons.

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Bangalore Information & Technology

Several speculations have been made about how the name "Bangalore" came about. Based on information from the Gazetteer of India, Karnataka State, Bangalore District section, the name "Bangalore" is an anglicised version of "Bengalooru," a word in the local Kannada language that was given to a town. The story goes that this word was derived from the phrase "bende kaalu ooru," which translates into "the town of boiled beans." It is said that King Ballala of the Hoysala dynasty lost his way in the jungle while on a hunting expedition. Tired and hungry, he encountered a poor, old woman who offered him the only food she had - some boiled beans. Grateful to her, the king named the place "bende kaalu ooru." However, historical evidence shows that "Bengalooru" was recorded much before King Ballala's time in a 9th century temple inscription in the village of Begur. "Bengalooru" still exists today within the city limits in Kodigehalli area and is called "Halebengalooru" or "Old Bangalore."

In 1638, Bangalore was conquered by Bijapur Sultan and ruled for next 50 years. Later it was captured by Mughals who held it for 3 years. In 1687, the Mughal Sultan of Sira province sold Bangalore to king Chikkadevaraja Wodeyar of Mysore for 3 lac pagodas, who built a second fort to the south of that built by Kempegowda I.In 1759, Hyder Ali received Bangalore as a jagir from Krishna raja Wodeyar II. He fortified the southern fort and made Bangalore an army town.When Tipu Sultan died in the 4th Mysore war in 1799, the British gave the kingdom, including Bangalore back to Krishna raja Wodeyar III. The British Resident stayed in Bangalore. In 1831, alleging misrule by Krishna raja Wodeyar III, the British took over the administration of the Mysore Kingdom.Under the British influence, Bangalore bloomed with modern facilities like the railways, telegraphs, postal and police departments. In 1881, the British returned the city to the Wodeyars. Diwans like Mirza Ismail, and sir Vishweshwarayya were the pioneers to help Bangalore attain its modern outlook.With the direct rule of the British Commissioners based in Bangalore, it became the State Administrative HQ. The destiny of Bangalore thus took a historic turn, making it eventually a major city of India and one of the fastest growing in the world.After independence, Bangalore's choice as a state capital was only logical. Mysore had too many associations with the royal family to be the capital of a new state with an elected Chief Minister and a nominated Governor. Finally, for an enlarged Karnataka, Bangalore was more central and better linked with the major cities of the country.Today, Bangalore is booming, and a look at some of its nicknames says why: "India's Silicon Valley," "Fashion Capital of India," "The Pub City of India," and on. Home to well over 6 million people, and a base for 10,000 industries, Bangalore is India's fifth largest city and the fastest growing city in Asia.

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Apple - Mighty Mouse

Meet the mouse that reinvented the wheel. The scroll wheel, that is. At $49, Mighty Mouse features the revolutionary Scroll Ball that lets you move anywhere inside a document, without lifting a finger. And with touch-sensitive technology concealed under the seamless top shell, you get the programability of a four-button mouse in a single-button design. Click, roll, squeeze and scroll. This mouse just aced the maze

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Inside 9/11 - a video archive

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Innovation through people-centred design

This very interesting Global Watch* mission report (which I just finished reading) summarises the results of an official UK field trip to the US to investigate the impact of people-centred research in the design process.

The authors were interested in the ways in which people-centred research becomes integrated into both the product design and development process as well as embedded within organisational culture and long-term strategic thinking.

They emphasise that people in their social context rather than task-centric users should be considered a fundamental source of product and service innovation.

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Death after 50 hours of gaming

A South Korean man who played computer games for 50 hours almost non-stop died of heart failure minutes after finishing his mammoth session in an Internet cafe, authorities said Tuesday.

The 28-year-old man, identified only by his family name Lee, had been playing on-line battle simulation games at the cybercafe in the southeastern city of Taegu, police said. Lee had planted himself in front of a computer monitor to play on-line games on August 3. He only left the spot over the next three days to go to the toilet and take brief naps on a makeshift bed, they said.

"We presume the cause of death was heart failure stemming from exhaustion," a Taegu provincial police official said by telephone. Lee had recently quit his job to spend more time playing games, the daily Joong Ang Ilbo reported after interviewing former work colleagues and staff at the Internet cafe.

After he failed to return home, Lee’s mother asked his former colleagues to find him. When they reached the cafe, Lee said he would finish the game and then go home, the paper reported.

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