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explore-blog: Minneapolis-based illustrator and art director David Schwen does delightful PANTONE food pairings on Instagram, possibly inspired by French food designer Emilie de Griottes’s PANTONE food art. Pair with PANTONE: The Twentieth Century in Color. - http://experience-innovation.tumblr.com/post...

Making choices is exhausting—mentally, emotionally, and even physically. With the proliferation of online services and globalizing markets, our options have multiplied rapidly, and it’s wearing us out. More than anything else, this is why we form brand loyalties. Once we believe that our values and choices align, we’re happy to leave choices to... - http://experience-innovation.tumblr.com/post...

Some development teams believe that usability problems only exist in other people’s products. - http://experience-innovation.tumblr.com/post...

The bottom line is, if you have a girl, I would put her in the best school as possible and have her around the smartest peers possible,” Jackson summarized. “If you have a son, you should put them in the school with the brightest teachers, but you should be wary of putting him in a hypercompetitive environment. Being a small fish in a big pond is... - http://experience-innovation.tumblr.com/post...

As illustrated in the figure, technology improves exponentially, but social, political and economic systems tend to change incrementally. Only when the differential between existing conditions and what is technically possible becomes large enough are human systems jolted into disruptive change. - http://experience-innovation.tumblr.com/post...

As we acquire more data, we have the ability to find many, many more statistically significant correlations. Most of these correlations are spurious and deceive us when we’re trying to understand a situation. Falsity grows exponentially the more data we collect. The haystack gets bigger, but the needle we are looking for is still buried deep - http://experience-innovation.tumblr.com/post...

Doctors miss early stage lung cancer diagnoses about half the time. Watson, on the other hand, is able to get the right diagnosis on these same cases 90% of the time. Although, Watson will still hedge its bets: When a medical professional consults the system, they will receive results on an iPad or computer in about 30 seconds with possible... - http://experience-innovation.tumblr.com/post...

An illustrated guide to our maddening relationship with tech - http://experience-innovation.tumblr.com/post...

Style Tiles are a design deliverable consisting of fonts, colors and interface elements that communicate the essence of a visual brand for the web. They help form a common visual language between the designers and the stakeholders and provide a catalyst for discussions around the preferences and goals of the client. Style Tiles are similar to the... - http://experience-innovation.tumblr.com/post...

a program called GLEAM (Global Epidemic and Mobility Model) that divides the world into hundreds of thousands of squares. It models travel patterns between these squares (busy roads, flight paths and so on) using equations based on data as various as international air links and school holidays. The result is impressive. In 2009, for example, there... - http://experience-innovation.tumblr.com/post...

The big if” for both Tesla and Google Glass is going to be how they think about the interaction of humans and the machine. - http://experience-innovation.tumblr.com/post...

Start with a look at the whole experience. This can include services other than your own. Spend time analyzing the complete journey. Identify the tools and steps within the journey and how people are feeling along the way. A journey map can help visualize things. - http://experience-innovation.tumblr.com/post...

SaaS Metrics 2.0 – A Guide to Measuring and Improving what Matters - http://experience-innovation.tumblr.com/post...

16 Quotes Visualized from The End of Business as Usual - http://experience-innovation.tumblr.com/post...

Today’s app makers already study engagement metrics for their own apps, and look to maximize repeat usage through push notifications and other reminders. But by learning more about how their apps live on users’ homescreens, what sort of context surrounds them, and where they fit into a user’s workflow, they could increase engagement by becoming a... - http://experience-innovation.tumblr.com/post...

A Crazy Floor Senses And Mirrors Your Every Move - http://experience-innovation.tumblr.com/post...

In many ways, interface design is like film editing: if you notice it, it wasn’t done well. - http://experience-innovation.tumblr.com/post...

If you don’t think the Nike+ Fuelband is ridiculously important, then you’re missing the big picture. In the next five to 10 years, wearable technology—the sensor-based appcessories that use our phones as brains and connections to the cloud—has the potential to change our lives every bit as much as having the world’s information in our pockets. - http://experience-innovation.tumblr.com/post...

You will either be the person who tells the computer what to do or the person that the computer tells what to do. - http://experience-innovation.tumblr.com/post...

The goal is not “making Gmail look identical across the web, Android, and iOS,” Cornwell says, “but taking the elements that make those platforms what they are and marrying them with the overall conceptual direction Gmail is pushing. - http://experience-innovation.tumblr.com/post...

Thanks to a vision laid out by a small team of Google designers, each product team is finding its way to a consistent and forward-looking design language thanks to a surprising process. - http://experience-innovation.tumblr.com/post...

[we] created these reference set of designs and then set those onto the world through the ‘productionizing’ of that with the engineering teams. - http://experience-innovation.tumblr.com/post...

A List Apart: Style Guide - http://alistapart.com/about...

Great copy doesn’t remind people what they already know and expect about your product, it tells them why they should care. - http://experience-innovation.tumblr.com/post...

If you do one thing today, watch this 40-minute crash course in Design Thinking: I. Druckrey: Teaching to See - http://experience-innovation.tumblr.com/post...

What mode of communication should you use? A flowchart by the inimitable Wendy MacNaughton, source of consistent visual delight. - http://experience-innovation.tumblr.com/post...

Patrick Baudisch and his fellow designers at Potsdam’s Hasso Plattner Institute have created a prototype of a floor that uses pressure-sensing technology to recognize people by their weight, track their movements through a room, display video, and interact with other objects in the room. - http://experience-innovation.tumblr.com/post...

Welcome to the future: Researchers develop stretchable, self-healing liquid-metal wires - http://experience-innovation.tumblr.com/post...

There seems to be a background current at Apple devoted to more subtle and invisible incarnations of on-body tech. - http://experience-innovation.tumblr.com/post...

BBC - Wearable tech gains momentum at CES - http://experience-innovation.tumblr.com/post...