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It seems some OEMs have gotten out of touch with customer desires but now the pendulum maybe swinging back: physical buttons are making a…..
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A successful UI designer understands the importance of considering different cultural characteristics, backgrounds, and behaviors during the planning process. Language barriers An obvious but…
Americans drive. A lot. Other countries do their fair share of driving, but the automobile is an icon of American culture right along with…
Color theory is used for web pages, painting, photography; virtually anything that makes use of color to help communicate something to a viewer. Generally…
Determining whether oSmart Cars, Smart Designr not “smart” automobiles are distracting depends largely on who you ask. If you ask consumers, as was done…
Good design does not happen by accident. It is imagined, researched, planned, and then implemented. It is reimagined and rebuilt through numerous iterations until…
There are three primary motivations for inventing something: Necessity: The need for a new product or service which does not currently exist Laziness: An…
In this age of smart phones, social networks, online ever-presence, and digital everything, marketing companies bombard us with technology products that we need to…
We’ve all done it at some point. Someone you know – a friend, relative, co-worker, whoever – buys the latest and greatest something or…
Not too long ago, the touchscreen GUI was almost exclusively found in the realm of smartphones and tablets. Today, they are becoming increasingly common…
Gestural UI refers to using specific gestures, like scrolling, pinching, and tapping to operate an interface. It also refers to gesture recognition, including tipping,…
This week, Altia sponsored the 5th Annual Automotive Cockpit HMI2014 Conference in Frankfurt, Germany. The goal for the event was to get all the great…
User interface, or UI, describes the way in which a human interacts with a machine. Though technically something as simple as a light switch…
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