bei IxDS suchen wir ab sofort als Unterstützung für die Entwicklung eines komplexen Software-Interface ein_e Frontend Entwickler_in zur Mitarbeit in unserem Berliner Büro. Aufgaben Zu den Aufgabenfeldern gehören Umsetzung schneller, skizzenhafter HTML-Prototypen in Abstimmung mit den Interaction Designern Implementierung der Oberfläche für einen Software-Demonstrator mit aktuellen web-Technologien Anschluss des Frontends an ein bestehendes Backend Unterstützung [...]
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IxDS is hiring: Interface Designer/ InfoVis gesucht!
Zur tatkräftigen Unterstützung für mehrere spannende Interface-Projekte suchen wir bei den IxDS Interaction Design Studios ab sofort zwei Interface Designer_innen zur Mitarbeit in unserem Berliner Büro. Aufgaben Zu den Aufgabenfeldern gehören Qualitative Benutzerstudien (Interviews/Beobachtungen) Konzeption im CoDesign mit Nutzern (grafische und physische Interfaces und Datenvisualisierung) Prototypische Umsetzung in Zusammenarbeit mit unseren Software-Entwicklern und Benutzertests. Dabei [...]
Global Service Jam and Tchibo Ideentag – report from the PreWorkTalk
World premiere at IxDS: The Global Service Jam took place for the first time just a couple of weeks ago, and we had the organizers of the Berlin event here to speak about their planning, impressions, and conclusions: Olga Scupin, Manuel Grossmann, and Martin Jordan. The audience at IxDS also witnessed the first screening of [...]
Mobile World Congress and Cebit reviewed
Trade show time at IxDS: last Tuesday, IxDS designers André Knörig and Johannes Landstorfer reported on their discoveries and impressions from the Cebit and the Mobile World Congress. With the Identity Management Portal of NSN and the energy and heating control for Riedel Automation, design solutions from IxDS were in the spotlight at both shows. [...]
Design for Green: EcoViz and Persuasive Design
Everyone keeps talking about climate protection, but noone gets going. Even though our energy consumption is known to be a little over budget (with 11t per capita and year, 2008), it does influence our day to day decisions in prominent ways. The climate, and even more its slow and gradual change, is just too abstract [...]
T-Mobile tweaks Android Phone
T-Mobile US recently announced their own take on an Android phone, called MyTouch 3G Slide (via moconews). They did not just rebrand the interface but put in some interesting applications and services: a revival of the MyFaves-idea but this time it’s really about keeping in touch (and not about a tariff as it was before) [...]
Pre-Work Talk: Second German Tangible Computing Workshop // Essen
February 2009, Reto Wettach hosted the very first Inventor-Workshop for the tangible interfaces chapter of the German computer science association (GI-AK „Be-greifbare Interaktion in gemischten Realitäten“) at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam. On March 12-13, this year’s workshop was hosted by Albrecht Schmidt, Professor for Pervasive Computing and User Interface Engineering at the University [...]
Pre-Work Talk: Mobile World Congress and CeBit
Some important trade fairs took place recently, and of course we were there to explore the latest trends in technology. Julia Leihener from Deutsche Telekom CreationCenter will take us on a trip to one of the most important venues of the mobile industry, the Mobile World Congress, that took place in Barcelona this year. Reto [...]
Pre-Work Talk: Consciousness Through Arts
Myriel Milicevic will give us a brief talk about Consciousness Through Arts that she held at the recent Visual Voltage Workshop at the Swedish Embassy in Berlin - with some exciting examples!
IxDS Design Director Reto Wettach at TEDx
Update: The videos are now available on YouTube. Watch Reto Wettach’s talk on “Bodies and Secrets”. TED conferences became famous for the inspiring and inspired talks, originally on “Technology, Entertainment, and Design”. The recent TEDx conference brought this model to Berlin for the first time (the “x” indicates an “independently organized” event). The organizers around Stephan Balzer [...]