Boeing unveiled a new addition to its fleet of commercial aircraft on Sunday, called the 787 Dreamliner. The plane promises high fuel-efficiency, longer travelling distances, more cabin space, bigger windows, softer lighting that adjusts with the time of day, and increased in-flight humidity for greater passenger comfort. Where did all of these innovative features come [...]

A followup on Brian’s Microsoft Surface post, including some background on the multi-touch interface and a few interesting and fun videos.

The iPhone has changed the game. From now on, it’s going to be much easier to explain why experience design is important. In fact, Apple may have just given us a one-word explanation.

UIEtips 6/19/07: Knowledge Navigator Deconstructed: Building an Envisionment Jared M. Spool discusses how a successful envisionment that focuses on the user’s ideal experience can lead a design team’s direction for years to come, and explores the many creative techniques for making that vision clear to everyone involved on the project.

Have your expectations of something ever been so low that they have nowhere to go but up? While I was on my recent trip in Europe, I stopped at a rest area in Germany and found this nifty toilet in the bathroom.

It didn’t look like much at first, but then I noticed the blue [...]

In this audio recording from January’s UIE Web App Summit, Adaptive Path’s Peter Merholz and UIE’s Jared Spool lead an entertaining discussion about the magic behind the scenes at Web 2.0 star Flickr.

 

 Flickr: How a Bright Star Changed the World of Web Applications with Peter Merholz and Jared Spool: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

If you missed the WebGuild’s Usability 2.0 event in April, have no fear: the entire video is available and there’s a great followup blog interview with Luke Wroblewski available.

Could you see your organization putting up messages like this?

In mid-May I was asked to sit down for an interview with my good friend and former UIE colleague Carolyn Snyder at the 54th Technical Communication Summit of the Society for Technical Communication. (STC) Carolyn assembled some great questions from STC members and we had a grand time discussing them with the audience.

 

 Jared Spool Interviewed by Carolyn Snyder at STC 2007: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Would a human operator have done this?