Interaction Design News
2017 Siggraph Conference: Call for Submissions
2017 Siggraph, set for July 30 through August 3 in Los Angeles, has announced a call for submissions.
BMW HoloActive Touch
At this year's Consumer Electronics Show, BMW will unveil its HoloActive Touch system, an innovative interface between the driver and vehicle that acts like a virtual touchscreen.
Figma Launches Components
Figma, a design tool with real-time collaboration, has launched Components, a feature that allows designers to reuse existing parts of a design quickly throughout a file, solving a common, tedious problem frequently faced by UI and graphic designers.
Seymourpowell Creates Interactive Smart Mirror for Superdry's Berlin Flagship Store
Seymourpowell has created a new interactive 'smart mirror' for British lifestyle brand Superdry's new flagship store in Berlin, which allows customers to 'digitally' try on the brand's new range of winter apparel before purchasing.
2017 O'Reilly Design Conference
The second O'Reilly Design Conference will be held March 19-22 at the Westin St. Francis in San Francisco. The event aims to arm designers with the skills, connections, and inspiration to create the products and services of today and tomorrow.
Main Street at eBay Headquarters by ESI Design
eBay's corporate campus in San Jose has unveiled a new "front door" to the company with Main Street, a 20,000-square-foot hub designed by ESI Design that brings the brand to life through massive interactive installations and displays in a bright, airy setting.
California at Design Museum
The Design Museum's new exhibition 'California' will bring together political posters, personal computers and self-driving cars to reveal how this culture of design and technology has made us all Californians. The exhibition will also look beyond hardware to explore how user interface designers in the Bay Area are shaping some of our most common daily experiences.
2017 SEGD Global Design Awards
The 2017 SEGD Global Design Awards is now open for submissions. Since 1987, the SEGD Global Design Awards have set the standard of excellence for environmental graphic design and experiential graphic design, honoring design work that connects people to place by providing direction, content and compelling experiences in public spaces.
International Design Excellence Awards 2017
The 2017 International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) is now open for submissions. IDEA is a premier international design competition sponsored annually by the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) and judged by renowned design experts from around the world.
The Collected Works Designs UI and Data Visualization for Starry
The Collected Works designed the UI for Starry - a touchscreen router that makes fast, reliable Wi-Fi easy for everyone.
TechSAge Design Competition 2017: Call for Submissions
Submissions are now open for the second annual TechSAge Design Competition. The two-phase global competition, designed to foster highly creative and impactful concepts, seeks to inspire talented students to develop innovative technology-enabled design solutions for the aging population, especially considering the varied abilities and disabilities of older adults.
Craft Sync: Sync From Sketch with 1 Click
InVision has today unveiled Craft Sync, which bridges design and prototyping environments by enabling product designers to quickly send their Sketch artboards to InVision without having to leave their preferred design environment.
Jamboard: The Whiteboard, Reimagined for Collaboration in the Cloud
With all the technological advances that make it easy for a global workforce to stay connected, there is still no seamless way to brainstorm across teams or offices.
Team London App by Cloudred
Cloudred designed and programmed a service & volunteering app for Team London. Available for both iOS and Android, the app helps Londoners find volunteer opportunities close to them and make a difference in their communities.
The Light Forest by BCXSY
The "Light Forest," a creative LED lighting installation by Philips, combines sculptural lighting effects directly into a uniquely detailed wall surface.
PANTONE Studio: New App Brings Insta-Ready Color & Inspiration to Your Device
Pantone has today launched a brand new digital app that brings color and inspiration to your device. PANTONE Studio lets users capture colors that inspire them in everyday life and convert them into palettes and digital artwork ready for social sharing, all in one on-the-go platform.
Communication Arts 23rd Annual Interactive Competition
Communication Arts is calling for entries for its 23rd Annual Interactive Competition. Any interactive project created for digital distribution on disk, interactive kiosk, handheld device, online service or the World Wide Web is eligible.
Collaborative Farming: Growing Own Organic Food at Tomorrow's Supermarkets
Carlo Ratti Associati, in collaboration with EATALY and CAAB, has designed a concept pavilion where people can engage with digitally-augmented farming and grow their own food on-site.
Youmeus Digital Retail Concept for Kenwood
Youmeus has created an interactive digital point of purchase concept to launch Kenwood's new global campaign 'What do you see?'
Map Designs Suzy Snooze for BleepBleeps
Suzy Snooze is the latest in the BleepBleeps line of cute, connected devices that make parenting easier.
Digital Retail Award 2016
Digitalization is shaking up brick-and-mortar retail worldwide. Online stores are ahead in some industries, but retailers are leveraging new shop concepts and digital POS technologies to deliver new services and experiences.
Tinker Imagineers Completes Nestlé's Open House in Switzerland
Nest is the new Nestle open house in Vevey, Lake Geneva designed by Tinker Imagineers. The Swiss Concept-Consult Architectes renovated the industrial heritage site and covered it with a magnificent glass roof and steel construction.
Winners of the 17th Annual National Design Awards
Cooper Hewitt has announced the winners of the 2016 National Design Awards. The accolade recognizes excellence and innovation across a variety of disciplines in 11 categories.
2016 Innovation By Design Awards
The 2016 Innovation By Design Awards is open for entries. Organized by Fast Company, the competition aims to honor the designers and businesses solving the problems of today and tomorrow.
UX Design Awards 2016
The 2016 UX Design Awards are now open for entries. Designers, companies and agencies are invited to submit their user-oriented products and services until April 29, 2016.
SpeedX Leopard: The First Ever Smart Aero Road Bike
SpeedX Leopard is the only smart aero road bike with the ability to help you train and track your progress in real time.
Core77 Design Awards 2016
The sixth Core77 Design Awards invites designers from all over the world to put their best work forward. Recognizing excellence in all areas of design enterprise, the Core77 Design Awards celebrates the richness of the design profession and its practitioners.
FITC Toronto 2016
The 2016 FITC Toronto will be held April 17-19 at the Hilton Toronto. It is a three-day professional celebration of the best the world has to offer in design, web development, media and innovation in creative technologies.
Communication Arts Publishes Interactive Annual 22
Communication Arts has published Interactive Annual 22, featuring the winners of its 22nd annual interactive competition.
6th Annual Lovie Awards: Call for Entries
The 6th Annual Lovie Awards are now open for entries. The competition aims to honour the most outstanding European work across Websites, Online Advertising, Internet Video, Mobile & Apps and Social.
Hanergy Renewable Energy Exhibition Center
TRIAD Berlin and TRIAD China recently created a unique showroom that showcases both the history and future of energy production.
One Show 2016
The 2016 One Show, one of the most prestigious awards competitions in advertising and design, is now open for entries.
Humanscale and Tome Introduce OfficeIQ
Humanscale has today unveiled OfficeIQ, a revolutionary system developed in collaboration with Detroit-based Tome Software.
Tinker Imagineers Named Overall Winner of SBID International Design Awards 2015
The Society of British and International Design declared Tinker imagineers the overall winner of the SBID International Design Excellence Awards 2015 on account of its experience design for the Juliana Children's Hospital.
2016 SEGD Global Design Awards
The 2016 SEGD Global Design Awards are now open for entries. The international awards program honors design work that connects people to place by providing direction, content, and compelling experiences in public spaces.
TYC's Innovative Retail Design for World Vision Goes Live at Westfield London
The Story Shop has been unveiled at Westfield London and it's a game changer in the sector. Historically, the charity sector has been denied access to premium retail environments and World Vision, the world's largest international children's charity, needed to change this in order to explore the higher donation market.
Powering the Future Installation by Gagarin
Gagarin was hired to design and install a new exhibition at Ljósafossstöð, one of Iceland's oldest hydro stations, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Landsvirkjun, the National Power Company of Iceland.
Pixel Awards 2015
The 10th Annual Pixel Awards are now open for entries. The competition is open to all companies, organizations and individuals involved in making the best work in digital.
Topp Helps Samsung to Create an Uncompromising Smartwatch Experience
Topp has been Samsung's design partner for the new Tizen-based smartwatch platform, driving the underlying UX framework that can now be found in the new Gear S2. To deliver this to the Korean giant, the team said goodbye to "best practice creativity" in favor of speed and iteration.
Sumsup: PWW Designs an App for the Future Workspace
PWW recently created Sumsup, a conceptual workspace app that enables people to communicate more effectively with their colleagues and employers to create a more positive and productive workforce.
Framestore Creates a Tactile New Installation for Tate Modern
Framestore created a tactile new installation for Tate Modern. Tate Modern welcomes around 5 million visitors through its doors each year, and shows work drawn from Tate's vast collection.
Eldheimar Exhibition
In May 2014, an exhibition in the Westman Islands about one of Iceland's biggest natural disasters, the Heimaey eruption in 1973, was launched in a new building on the slopes of the Eldfell volcano.
Designer's Fiesta 2015
Now in its 6th year, Designer's Fiesta is a unique event, packing a huge number of talks, on a wide range of topics, in just one day of intense learning and networking.
Communication Arts 2016 Interactive Competition: Call for Entries
Communication Arts' 22nd annual Interactive Competition is now open for entries. The competition celebrates the best work being done for the Web, DVD, interactive kiosk and handheld devices. Student work is also being accepted.
M&C Saatchi Creates London's First Artificial Intelligence Poster
M&C Saatchi has created the world's first poster campaign created by artificial intelligence.
DesignThinkers 2015
The Association of Registered Graphic Designers (RGD) will host its 2015 DesignThinkers conference in Toronto on November 12 & 13.
HOW Interactive Design Conference Series
HOW will host a series of Interactive Design Conferences in San Francisco, Chicago, and Boston from September 20, 2015.
MoMu Museum Explorer
The Fashion Museum of Antwerp (MoMu) unveiled Momu Museum Explorer, an interactive wall to unlock the Museum's hidden treasures locked away in huge archives.
Core77 Design Awards 2015
Core77 is still accepting entries for its 2015 Design Awards. A celebration of excellence in all areas of design, the Design Awards program enlists an international jury of design experts to honor those who present creative, innovative and forward thinking designs across 14 traditional and progressive categories.
Communication Arts 2015 Design and Advertising Competitions: Call for Entries
Communication Arts magazine is calling for entries for its 56th annual Design and Advertising Competitions.
2015 SEGD Conference: Experience Chicago
Chicago has long been considered a hub for architecture, design, and innovation, and the 2015 SEGD Conference: Experience Chicago will gather experiential graphic design community together June 4-6 to focus on the future of experiential design and its impacts on the city and those who shape it.
College for Creative Studies Appoints Head for Rare Interaction Design Program
The College for Creative Studies announced the appointment of Paul Pangaro as the new chair of the Master of Fine Arts Interaction Design Program.
3D Web Fest: Call for Entries
The 3D Web Fest is calling for designers, musicians, web developers and artists to submit their 3D Web projects for the 2015 event.
5th Annual Lovie Awards: Call for Entries
The 5th Annual Lovie Awards are now open for entries. The Lovie Awards honours the best in Websites, Online Advertising, Internet Video, Mobile & Apps and Social.
The One Show 2015: Call for Entries
The 2015 One Show has extended its deadline and is still open for entries.
SEGD CX Customer Experiences Workshop in Las Vegas
SEGD's Customer Experience (CX) Workshop, happening March 10, 2015, during the Digital Signage Expo in Las Vegas, will ground designers, marketing and branding professionals, technology providers, and other creative professionals in the basics of customer experience (CX) design.
2015 SEGD Global Design Awards
The Society for Experiential Graphic Design has launched its 2015 Global Design Awards, including new Interactive Experience and Digital Experience Content categories that reflect the shifts that digital technology is creating in design for public spaces.
Communication Arts Interactive Competition 2015
Communication Arts magazine's 21st annual Interactive Competition is now open for entries.
The Transformation of an Idea into Mass Success
The next RKS Sessions, to be held at the Cross Campus on August 5, 2014, will host Craig Hickman the creator of Kid Pix.
TERA Fitness Mat by LUNAR
LUNAR has unveiled TERA, an elegant exercise mat made of eco-friendly shear wool that blends into any contemporary interior.
Winners of the 2014 National Design Awards
The Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum revealed the winners of the 2014 National Design Awards.
Gadi Amit Talks Wearables and Interface at PD+I 2014
Gadi Amit, founder and principal designer of NewDealDesign, will deliver a keynote at PD+I 2014 on wearables and the disappearing interface.
Innovation By Design Awards 2014
The Fast Company's 3rd Annual Innovation By Design Awards are now open for entires.
Anti NIS Accessories by Fabrica Researchers
Anti NIS Accessories is a new project realized by two Interaction designers currently researchers at Fabrica.
Design Products and Services Driven by the Needs, Desires, and Contexts of People
'Design Products and Services Driven by the Needs, Desires, and Contexts of People,' LUMA Institute and PDD's 2-day workshop in London, will introduce participants to the discipline of Human-Centred Design.
Winners of 20th Communication Arts Interactive Competition
Communication Arts magazine has revealed the winners of its 20th annual Interactive competition.
MoMA Audio+ Mobile Guide
The Museum of Modern Art has launched Audio+, delivering a new level of interpretive content for Museum visitors.
Become Electric: World's First Interactive 360 Film
WCRS, as part of EngineDare, has teamed with Mustard Films and Tool to create the world's first interactive 360° film for the launch of BMW's first electric car, the BMW i3.
Nike+ FuelBand SE
NIKE has today unveiled the second edition of FuelBand. The new Nike+ FuelBand SE builds on the iconic design and experience and delivers even more information and motivation to keep users moving.
Nike+Nine Wins 2013 Premier's Design Award
Good Design Australia has revealed the winner of the 2013 Victorian Premier's Design Award.
Struck Develops ASICS Digital Training Initiative
Struck has developed ASICS's new digital training campaign, which offers a fresh take for the online training world.
Fjord Wins Red Dot Communication Design Award for SMART Pediatric Growth Chart
Fjord has received a 2013 Red Dot Communication Design Award for its work for the SMART Pediatric Growth Chart.
Eight Inc. Recognized for Design Excellence
Eight Inc. has been awarded for the design excellence of its work for both the Acure Digital Vending Machine and the Jordan Brand Melo M8 Pop-Up Installation.
Graphics Interface 2014: Call for Posters
The 40th Graphics Interface conference, the Canadian annual event devoted to computer graphics, interactive systems, and human-computer interaction, is calling for posters and demos.
Two Left Feet App: Resin Develops Modern Day Pop-up Book Using Augmented Reality
Resin has taken an existing storybook and brought it to life to create a "modern day pop-up book," using 3D animation and augmented reality.
BIOSTAGOG: Interactive Sculpture by Platige Image and Bridge
Designed by Platige Image and Bridge, BIOSTAGOG is an interactive sculpture that combines algorithmic design, 3D printing, mapping and interaction.
Adobe and AdWeek Digital Publishing Awards
Adobe, in partnership with AdWeek, launched a mobile advertising contest to distinguish the most innovative mobile advertisement or app, created with Adobe Digital Publishing Suite, that demonstrates inventive thinking, breakthrough creativity, and design acumen.
Fracture.io: MPC NY Breaks the Mold for One Club and JWT
MPC Digital teamed up with The One Club via JWT New York to create Fracture.io, a stunning installation experience for The One Show's lavish after party at NYC's Bowery Hotel.
7 Ways to Inject Playfulness into Your App Design
While developing the app concept Let's Get Away, the design team at RKS focused on features that would make vacation planning almost as exciting as the vacation itself.
Winners of the App to the Future Design Challenge
Core77 and Microsoft have today unveiled the 50 finalists and five winners of the App to the Future challenge.
GAME: Golf's New Digital Experience
fuseproject has recently created GAME GOLF, a wearable golf performance monitoring system. The GAME platform is centered on three key ingredients: See, Share and Compare.
10,000ft Wins 2013 Interaction Award
10,000ft, a resourcing/project management tool created by Artefact, has recieved a 2013 Interaction Award from IxDA.
Ravi Sawhney to Deliver Opening Keynote at Interaction 13
Ravi Sawhney, CEO and founder of the strategic design consultancy RKS, will deliver the opening keynote of the Interaction 13 conference organized by IxDA.
Iceberg in Montreal by Atomic3
Iceberg, created by ATOMIC3, is an interactive, architectural, light and sound installation that brings winter right into the heart of the city.
Emo Designs New Interface for Kblue's Kult
Designed by Emo Design for Kblue, Kult is a new collection of user interfaces and web applications for the control of homes featuring stunning design and intuitive graphics.
App to the Future Design Challenge
Core77 and Microsoft have launched a competition for designers to imagine a Windows Phone 8 app for a better future.
Nike+ Accelerator Program
Nike has today launched its first Nike+ Accelerator program, aimed to leverage the success of the Nike+ platform to support digital innovation by connecting with companies that share Nike's commitment to help people live more active lives.
Geyrhalter Wine Group Launches Biodynamics App for Martian Ranch & Vineyard
Geyrhalter Wine Group recently launched a Biodynamic Calendar app for iPhone and iPad for long-term client Martian Ranch & Vineyard in anticipation of its Biodynamic certification in the coming months.
Morpholio Creates Exhibit App for Crossing Borders
This fall celebrates the exhibition opening of Crossing Borders: Manuscripts from the Bodleian Libraries at the Jewish museum in New York.
Run4Good: BEAM and Saucony Create Runners' App to Fight Childhood Obesity
Created by BEAM and Saucony, Run4Good is an easy-to-use, full-featured running app that also enables users to run towards collective mileage goals that when reached triggers the doubling of cash donations from Saucony and its corporate partners to fight childhood obesity.
MoMA Releases Its First Enhanced Digital Books for iBookstore
The Museum of Modern Art has released its first enhanced digital books for Apple's iBookstore. Century of the Child: Growing by Design, 1900-2000 and MoMA Collection Highlights: 350 Works from The Museum of Modern Art, made with iBooks Author, are available today from the iBookstore on iPad.
Doc's Demo: Master's Edition
Goodby, Silverstein & Partners have released the next iteration of their Google docs campaign by collaborating with Google and Google Creative Labs to build the website, Doc's Demo: Master's Edition.
Feel UX: frog Redefines Android Experience for Sharp
Feel UX is a new Android smartphone experience that is easy to use, highly personalized, and visually stunning.
NBC Politics iOS App
NBC Politics launched a new app for iPad and iPhone that brings users inside the 2012 election through a collection of interactive tools, games, videos, reports, and graphics from a powerful political reporting team at NBC News.
ADC National Student Portfolio Review 2012: Call for Creative Reviewers
The newest class of young talent in advertising, design and interactive will once again assemble in New York for the Art Directors Club National Student Portfolio Review, taking place April 30-May 2 at the ADC Gallery.
Bombay Sapphire Sky Pavilion
Bombay Sapphire Sky Pavilion is an innovative, interactive installation developed as a uniquely commissioned project in partnership with ENESS and Right Angle Studio.
Method Bolsters Interaction Design Discipline with Addition of Ted Booth as Principal
Method hired Ted Booth as its newly appointed Principal. Ted will lead Method's global Interaction Design discipline, driving the company's creative approach to projects and adding a rigorous and comprehensive broad-based design experience to the company culture.
Benetton Live Windows Wins First Prize for Fabrica at the Digital Signage Expo in Las Vegas
Benetton Live Windows, the digital signage project developed by Fabrica for selected Benetton flagship stores, was conferred the Gold Apex Award in the Retail category by a jury of journalists working in the sector.
Virtual Broad Art Museum
In anticipation of its fall 2012 opening, the Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University has launched the Virtual Broad Art Museum, a multi-user online environment that provides an innovative and globally accessible venue for the presentation of interactive digital artworks.
FontFont Website Receives iF Communication Design Award
The iF Communication Design Award 2012 ceremony honored FontShop International and Edenspiekermann design agency with a golden iF award for their collaboration on the FontFont.com website relaunch.