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via JohnnyHolland Great interaction design is a delicious soup. You boil a variety of different ingredients and spices in the right proportion, and voila – pure bliss! Unlike other branches of design, however, it’s extremely hard to write a recipe for interaction design. By its very nature, the interaction design process needs to be fluid and dynamic. Interaction design tingles the complete experience over [...] This is sheer awesomeness. It delights me when services map themselves onto our environments in such delightful ways. For more on Ovi Maps, see here. I’ve been thinking and working alot lately about Service Design, and questions about the Dabbawallahs in India have often popped up. An article I read on Meena Kadri’s blog really delighted me. Excerpts: “What do laundry and lunch delivery have to do with my favoured intersection of communication, culture and creativity? Well, in the case of Mumbai’s [...] A video of the Ergonomidesign stall and our sales representatives talking about the project… My comments - Waiting – sucks. Price – VERY good value for money. Firdelity of actual product to 3-d render – 80% accurate. Some of the colors and materials look different in reality. Overall happiness quotient – 4.5 out ot 5 !!!! Will hope to try this out with Nike+ next…for err… research purposes! While walking around Stockholm today, I stumbled upon a store with Puma’s Mongolian Barbecue setup in a rather clunky kiosk (metal tracker ball for mouse, and metal keyboard). I have to confess, I’d heard of Mongolian BBQ ages ago, but for some odd-reason (blame Interaction Studies!) – I never tried it. I finally did try – glued to the screen, engrossed for over 45 minutes at the kiosk trying out several options. I eventually had to surrender the kiosk to 3 French tourists who had been glaring at me for a while. |
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