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I wish you a wonderful new year 2013, filled with a lots of great products developed in a healthy and agile environment. Please find below, a video from Bassett & Partners.   "The 18 minute "Connecting" documentary is an exploration of the future of Interaction Design and User Experience from some of the industry's thought leaders. As the role of software is catapulting forward, Interaction Design is seen to be not only increasing in importance dramatically, but also expected to play a leading role in shaping the coming "Internet of things." Ultimately, when the digital and physical worlds become one, humans along with technology are potentially on the path to becoming a "super organism" capable of influencing and enabling a broad spectrum of new behaviors in the world." Source: nickfinck : Connecting - interaction design and the user experience

A few days ago, a friend of mine complained about the lack of speed of his products’ user interfaces. Like many of us, he chose to build his user interface using an abstraction software framework. One year later, his products’ web pages are too heavy and his customers complain. It would have been nice not to live in a world where the top Internet giants focus continuously on speed. Without these companies, one second to return the result of a web page would be the norm and browsing would be a peaceful activity. While today, web pages are displayed in less than the blink of an eye (0,2-0,3 second), many desktop applications still seem incredibly sluggish. When you look at the data presented by Stoyan Stefanov at Velocity, you would understand 2-3 seconds to load a view is still acceptable, if the user is working only with your application. But, today most users are browsing and searching while using applications at work. If you listen to Marissa Mayer at Velocity, you will...

We have been told to use sticky colored tickets as kanban, but frankly, even if the result is damn effective, the aspect is closer to a moulting bird than a rational visual tool. Our building design quality is contributing to sustain or maybe to enhance our amenities, likewise our creativity. Therefore why not display the pace of our inspiration by a tree of sticky fruits? Without a doubt these Fruit-Shaped Sticky Notes, called “KUDAMEMO” by D-BROS , coming from Japan must be an answer to the sad visual board we have now. Sources : Gigazine : Fruit-Shaped Sticky Notes “KUDAMEMO” by D-BROS - GIGAZINE Fubiz : Fruit Sticky Notes | Fubiz™

Nothing about my working questions but only a link to the Boston Big Picture about Glastonbury 2009 . Nowadays, rock/pop/electro music is not a generational phenomenon anymore, but a culture. Have a look at the people and you will understand what I mean.

As an agilist, I over use post-its, because my company tends to be more and more visually organised. Have a look at mister Bunliu 's senior project at Savannah College of Art and Design. On his YouTube account , you can read: "This is my senior project at Savannah College of Art and Design. Where my idea comes from is that every time when I am busy, I feel that I am not fighting with my works, I am fighting with those post-it notes and deadline. I manipulating the post-it notes to do pixel-like stop motion and there are some interactions between real actor and post-its" Here below the making of.