I compleatly agree with Don’s Norman view on design contests. www.core77.com Every year the world holds many contests for industrial designers. Lots of submissions, lots of time spent by jurors reviewing them, lots of pretty pictures afterwards. Fun to read, wonderful for the winners. What’s the problem? I have been a juror for a number [...]

Nathan Waterhouse from IDEO speaks about “Designing for People or How to Facilitate User Feedback” at HackFwd incubation program. Check out the rest of the videos, highly recomended. www.passionmeetsmomentum.com HackFwd – Designing for People or How to Facilitate User Feedback – Nathan Waterhouse from HackFwd on Vimeo.

Stu­dio Roosegaarde is an artis­tic lab­o­ra­tory for unique art and tech­nol­ogy projects. Roosegaarde has become inter­na­tion­ally known with the Sus­tain­able Dance Floor that he cre­ated for Watt, a dance club in Rot­ter­dam. Sus­tain­abil­ity often plays an impor­tant part in his work. In Dune 4.2 he cre­ated a dune land­scape con­sist­ing of hun­dreds of LED lights. [...]