One of the many concerns for Industrial Designers is how the end-user interacts with the product. This frame of thought comes to the forefront when we are designing how end-users visually react and interact with a graphical user interface (GUI). GUI Design and Industrial Design are quite different as a profession at the macro level, but there certainly are similarities …
USER EXPERIENCE AND THE EMERGING USE OF HAPTICS
By SIGMADESIGN Electrical Engineer Image Credit: https://labs.wsu.edu/robotics-and-automation/haptic-gloves/ Photographer: Laura Dutelle The most impactful advances in technology are those which enhance the human experience and bring significant value to our lives. Our most valued technologies keep us warm, safe, connected with our loved ones, and enable us to learn, grow, and share our ideas. In recent decades, popular technologies provide us …