Bill Moggridge, co-founder of the design company IDEO and director of the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, passed away on September 8th 2012 of cancer at the age of 69. If you are familiar with human-centered design, user experience, or design thinking, it is likely that you've have been influenced by Moggridge's work, ideas, and heart! I encourage you to take the time to view the following video:
To learn more about Bill Moggridge and his contributions to the people of our world, take a look at the "Remembering Bill" web pages on the Cooper-Hewitt website, and also the Celebrating Bill Moggridge website. RELATED Bill Boggridge's presentation to K-12 educators about design: Bill Moggridge is the author of the following books: Designing Media (book/DVD/website), featuring interviews with a range of people from various disciplines related to media. Designing Interactions (book/DVD/website). In this book, Moggridge introduces a number of of people who have influenced interaction design. It also covers the evolution of the interactive design approaches at IDEO.
The Pew Internet & American Life Project website is a treasure trove of statistics about the use of the internet and related technologies. I especially like the following infographic which outlines how smartphone ownership has reached the "tipping point". My hunch is that this will lead to some bigger changes in our future! For more information, see Lee Rainie's article: Smartphone Ownership Update: September 2012
The RSA is the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, a charity organization founded in the 1800's, and located in the UK: "At the heart of the RSA's contemporary mission and public debates about the future prospects for the human race is the question: 'Can we go on like this?' Will the ideas and values which transformed our world in the last two centuries be sufficient to find solutions to the challenges we now face or do we need new ways of thinking?" One of the ways the RSA shares information is through events that feature renown speakers. Some of the presentations are transformed into animations, known as RSA Animates, and are some of the most popular videos uploaded by RSA to YouTube, spreading the word to hundreds of thousands across the globe. Here are a few: RSA Animate: The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty, Dan Ariely RSA Animate: The Power of Networks, Manuel Lima
Manuel Lima is the senior UX design lead at Microsoft Bing.
For more information, see The Power of Networks: Knowledge in an age of infinite interconnections. and the presentation slides.
The following video was released by SAP to introduce its new Mobility Design Center. The video uses animated infographics to outline the key features of the SAP mobility design process.
Today I attended Web Afternoon Charlotte and was impressed by many of the presentations, including a talk by Nick Finck, of Deloitte Digital. Throughout the day, common themes emerged, centered around facing our fears and creating a better (digital) world that includes a good measure of disruption. As I reviewed information for this post, I came across a
nicely-prepared video by Deloitte Australia. It provides a number of animated infographics to highlight key factors related to digital disruption. Although the narrator focuses on the business world in Australia, given our global economy, the concepts ring true for the US and other countries. (An infographic on this topic, created by Deloitte Digital can be found at the end of this post.)
