The Gigaset SL910 is the world’s first cordless telephone with touchscreen technology for the home. It combines a generous, intuitive interface with brilliant speech quality.

After an intensive user centred design process for the software frontend, Carl Zeiss launched the first microscope with interfaces designed by Intuity on board. With the Laser Scanning Microscope LSM 710, Carl Zeiss defines another milestone in microscopy. It opens new horizons towards highest sensitivity, flexibility and usability in examining fluorescent probes in biology. A great research instrument for labs all over the world as well as a great achievement and success for Carl Zeiss.

A consistent interactive concept working across a range of DECT telephones. A modular interface design that harmoniously blends into the individual product language and moves it forward. Comprehensive specifications and transparent implementation support. These are just some of the topics we assist Gigaset Communications with as part of their voice product range development and market introduction.

When top performance meets superior comfort, the result is what the automobile world calls a ‘super sports car’. Electronic assistants need to match these special requirements in dynamic driving situations and challenging road conditions. Clarity, speed and simplicity are the parameters for performance and safety.

The use of in-car navitainment provides an exciting challenge. The driver should not be distracted from their actual activity, he should be presented with quick results. Together with Panasonic, we developed a new solution for a sports car manufacturer in the south of Germany.

Language based interfaces are hip right now. Both iPhone and Android OS recently have been equipped with the ability to listen to your talk. So the technology seems to have reached a level where it’s ready to hit the consumer making it easier to communicate with certain devices and services. But the technology alone won’t [...]

The design clock Qlocktwo tells the time in plain words: “It is twenty past four” or “It is a quarter to ten” – the same way as people speak to each other. When turned off, the square clock looks like a word puzzle, but when turned on, its automatically adjusting to ambient light display illuminates [...]

fontplore is an interactive applicaton for searching and digging into an online font database that has been created by Christian Hertlein and Markus Paeschke at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam. It’s based upon the maeve installation and the Open-Source reacTIVision fiducial framework. What I really like about the project are the tangible objects that [...]

Realtime 3D Airtraffic Network Simulation is a new project of WHITEvoid.com for the client: LUFTHANSA AG In the flight control tower of the Lufthansa Brand Academy Frankfurt-Seeheim visitors learn about the local and global connections of international air traffic. A 14 meter wide 180 degrees projection let´s the visitors dive into the fully navigable, realtime [...]

Fritzing ist eine Open-Source-Initiative entstanden an der FH in Potsdam, die Designer und Künstler bei der Gestaltung von elektronischen Produkten und Werken unterstützt. Die Fritzing-Software ermöglicht das einfache und realitätsnahe »Zusammenstecken« von elektronischen Schaltkreisen und generiert daraus automatisch das Layout einer professionellen Platine. Die dadurch gewonnene vollständige Dokumentation eines Projekts ermöglicht erstmals den einfachen Austausch [...]

Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard Hilarious. Found on “America’s finest news source“.

Mercedes-Benz have recently presented their next-generation COMAND interface prototype to the public. It is called myCOMAND. The system is completely web-based, allowing telematics and infotainment services with VoIP, InternetRadio, Google navigation, weather and POI content. The visual interface seems to build heavily on radial/globe metaphors as navigation principles and supporting an intuitive use of the [...]

Bosch arbeitet bei der Entwicklung der User-Interfaces für Küchengeräte schon seit mehreren Jahren eng mit Intuity zusammen. Ein Teil dieser gemeinsamen Arbeit ist jetzt in einem sehr netten Trailer zusammengefasst.

Jason Fried, founder of 37 signals, gave an inspiring speech (Kris Jordan also provides a transcription on his blog) at the Web Expo in New York. He came up with a nice metaphor that says more about Interface and Interaction Design than a lot of the books I’ve read about these subjects. “Think of yourself [...]

In a series of conceptual video scenarios, Jesse James Garrett from Adaptive path is describing their vision of future web-browsing, called Aurora. Aurora is a concept video presenting one possible future user experience for the Web, created by Adaptive Path as part of the Mozilla Labs concept browser series. Aurora explores new ways people could [...]

FLARE is a modular system to create a dynamic hull for facades or any building or wall surface. Acting like a living skin, it allows a building to express, communicate and interact with its environment. FLARE turns the building facade into a penetrable kinetic membrane, breaking with all conventions of the building surface as a [...]

Nachdem sich Farbkombinationen schon seit einiger Zeit dank Kuler online erstellen lassen setzt Fontshop mit dem FontStructor noch eins drauf: hier lassen sich voll funktionsfähige Fonts aus vordefinierten Modulen konstruieren und anschließend downloaden. Die noch relativ überschaubare Kollektion fertiger Fonts zeigt bereits eine beeindruckende Bandbreite. Das Interface ist überschaubar und mit viel Liebe fürs Detail [...]

Cooles Interfacekonzept zur Ausstellung Design and the Elastic Mind im MoMA.

Die bitteren Zeiten in denen uns morgens “Ostermann und Schatzi” wecken sind vorbei. Das Radio ist zurück – und zwar jedem das seine. Philips bringt mit seinem neuen NP1100 ein WLAN Radio auf den Markt. Noch im Frühjahr soll das Gerät in die Läden kommen.

In seinem Interview mit Core77 hinterfragt Donald Norman etablierte Designmethoden – zur deren Pionieren er selbst gehört. Er behauptet zum Beispiel, dass User Centered Design Methoden oft nutzlos sind, weil es eine riesige Anzahl von Nutzer mit völlig verschiedenen Bedürfnissen gibt. Gutes Design ist seiner Meinung nach das Resultat von aufgabenorientiertem Design. Eine andere Interessante [...]

… sind oft die kleinen Dinge abseits der lauthals beworbenen Features. Gestern habe ich entdeckt, dass Apple das Hilfe-Menü in Mac OS X Leopard um eine nette Kleinigkeit erweitert hat. Dort kann man nun direkt Suchbegriffe eingeben. Aufgelistet werden dann allerdings nicht nur Hilfe-Themen sondern auch Menüeinträge. Und die verlinken da eben nicht zu einer [...]