For decades industrial designers have know how to make products desirable and emotional (eg: Kansei Engineering and the sensorial quality assessment method). By infusing basic physiological truths into the design (power, sex, status), you can transform an ordinary utilitarian object into something people crave. Cars are a great example (like this 2009 Camero… mmmm sexy!). [...]
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Sex appeal, the ’09 Camero, and interactive design
May 28th, 2008 5 Comments
Tags: 2009 camero · emotion · industrial design · interactive · narrative · product design · video games · web design
Games, Community and Music = Future of the Recording Industry
April 28th, 2008 No Comments
Summary: GTA IV is coming so get ready. Rock Band is the future of the record industry. And it’s community is growing. (Plus, Harmonix is hiring a Web designer.) Grand Theft Auto IV (GTA IV) is coming our way, and sales are predicted to be huge. PSFK notes that Rockstar (the makers of Grand Theft [...]
Tags: guitar hero · harmonix · rock band · video games
“Web3D” is coming!! … and I’m married to Feist!
April 22nd, 2008 No Comments
There are some interesting thoughts brewing about a topic called Web 3D, a future vision of the web which resembles Second Life, rather than the 2D browsers we see today. There are lots of reasons why Web 3D could come to fruition, but I want to pose three roadblocks that might prevent that: 3D environments [...]
Tags: 2.0 · 3d · business · flash · forrester · future technology · video games · Web 2.0 · web technology
