A user fix parking ticket machine interface

Today I came over this picture of a parking ticket machine that has annoyed an user so much, that the user have modified the machine to make it better. 

Original link: Uselog.com

User friendly Packaging Design

At PingmMag you can see some clever packaging design. This is one of them, a easy to use noodle packaging with holes so hot water can be removed with ease.

Se the rest here: PingMag

Panasonic’s multitouch remote control concept

Today when I were going trough my Google reader I saw this post about Panasonic’s new multitouch remote control concept. Original link: Engadget

It is nice to see that companies are trying out new things. I think that they often just bring out remotes with more and more buttons, so nice to see something different. 

This one has less buttons and makes you look at the screen instead of looking at the remote. Its like the track-pad that you find on laptops, so it’s turning the TV into a computer.

Public symbols and pictograms

Public signage/warnings and pictogram’s are a great sourse of inspiration. It’s a visual language that is meant to be understood by people all over the world. Take for instance these arrows, they communicate a direction without the need of language/words.

Toilet sign is a example of a sign/pictogram that is well known and comes in many variations. 

Other signs you might newer have seen before, but still you can understand them.

 

These are typical danger/warning pictogram’s telling you about various ways of dying or deforming your body. No language needed except for the visual.

You can get instructions by a series of pictogram’s, that for example enables you to operate this japanese fire extinguisher.

Most of the pictogram’s you See on a daily basis are usually simplistic. But sometimes you come across more advanced ones.

Speakers by Max & Truong

This is a pair of speakers that I and my friend Truong made. They are designed to go perfectly with your laptop. They enhance the sound from your laptops built in speakers, and give you mega surround from above. As a added bonus your screen goes from widescreen to not widescreen.

For the nice price of 890$ you can buy your own set.

Information Design and the Placebo Effect

On Maziar Zand’s blog you can read this nice text about imagined functions.

Information Design and the Placebo Effect

Click the link to read.

Another interesting blog

Here is another interesting blog i did discover today.

Lots of nice thoughts and observations. Manny around the theme of “the web” and computer-program interfaces.

You find it here:

Useology

Høstutstillingen & my project

Today I went to the “høstutstillingen” (art exhibition) and I saw some artwork that made me think about my project.

They make me think about the times you meet machines that you have no idea about what their function is.

Today I found a interesting blog

Today i came over this interesting blog that is full of great thoughts, ideas and examples off god and bad designs. Manny funny things to.

You can find it here:

Commonsense Design

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You should also check out this blog, if you haven’t seen it before:

FailBlog

Lots of funny things.

Observation 13 Sep. // Apple TV

I and my girlfriend had a family birthday party in our apartment this saturday. We had familymembers in all ages. At he end of the party som of them wondered what our Apple TV could do. Then we showed them that we used it to rent movies, watch tv-shows and play music.

Suddenly smal children down to the age of 8 and adults were using it like they newer have don anything else in their life. It were surprising to se how quickly they had full control over the devise and browsed thousands of movies and tv-shows. I think that it’s fascinating how you can control so many features with such an simple remote.

Info:

Apple TV’s remotecontrol has six buttons, the menues ar on the tv screen so that you look at the tv and not the remote.