Hasta La Ideas

What a fantastic day of design discourse and discussion! Special thanks to GE and Smithsonian, Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum for providing us the video feed, and thanks to all of you who watched and participated in the discussions online. Check back here in coming days for any additional coverage, and search Twitter for #designnow an archive and continuation of today’s tweets.

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brSmart Design/strongbr /New York, NY/p

pAs a Senior Industrial Designer, not only will you deliver the highest quality design solutions while respecting a project budget, you will guide a multi-disciplinary team to help realize a project’s goals. You will work with some of the world’s best known brands in categories such as housewares, consumer electronics, healthcare, and packaging – shaping their future strategy and implementing tactile solutions./p

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pReminder! You’ve got one long weekend left to get your entries in for our current a href=”http://boards.core77.com/viewtopic.php?f=35t=21539″1 Hour Design Challenge/a, so get to it!/p

pThe challenge is produced in partnership with a href=”http://www.teague.com/”Teague/a, who came to us with the fantastic theme of Gestural Interfaces. strongYour challenge is to find an everyday object or specific geometry and turn it into an interface. /strong/p

pA refresher from the original brief follows, for those of you who may have missed it:/p

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blockquoteFlipping over a chair switches an ‘open’ sign off. What if you could turn off your reading light by simply closing a book? What if your pen became heavier as you wrote larger checks?

pThe best solutions combine object, ritual and context. /blockquote/p

pFor inspiration, check out some of our favorites a href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/featured_items/1_hour_design_challenge_highlights_gestural_interfaces__16600.asp” here/a. Or, take a peek at Teague’s a href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/competition/teagues_radioball__16601.asp”Radioball/a, which inspired this challenge in the first place./p

pLooking forward to more brilliant entries pouring in! Submit yours a href=”http://boards.core77.com/viewtopic.php?f=35t=21539″here/a./p

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pKieranTimberlake is seeking a Prototype Developer in Philadelphia, PA/p

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brKieranTimberlake/strongbr /Philadelphia/p

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pstronga href=”http://www.coroflot.com/public/job_details.asp?job_id=26560referral=C77blogpost”User Experience Designer/a
brDesign Kitchen/strongbr /Chicago, IL/p

pWe’re looking for the best and the brightest of the next generation of interaction design and usability talent. Do you want to push user experiences beyond what’s expected? This role combines often-siloed aspects of user experience – user research, interaction design, information architecture, usability and more. We’re not too into titles – we just like understanding brands and users and creating appealing and usability experiences that marry the two.
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