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Interface design facilitates interaction between a human being and a machine. It is a user-centered discipline that includes the design of websites, computers, mobile communication devices, and software applications focused on the user experience.

Interface Design Articles

Science, Meet Storytelling—Stanford's Morphogenesis
Science, Meet Storytelling—Stanford's Morphogenesis

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"Morphogenesis," a generative installation at the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Biology Research Building on the Stanford University Campus designed by Knot (Portland, Ore.) and artist Jonathan McCabe, is the first installation that connects user interaction with a large-scale media mesh platform—built by GKD Metal Fabrics (Cambridge, Md.).

Digital Font Pairing by Allan Haley
Digital Font Pairing
Muzeiko Children's Museum
“Little Museum,” Big Collaboration—Muzeiko Children’s Museum

Thoughts and Opinions

Creative Destruction: Part 04
A Curious Stepchild of Inbound Marketing

Creative Destruction Part 04: A Curious Stepchild of Inbound Marketing

Walk through the lobby of most buildings today and invariably you will pass a large media wall of some kind. Flowing across these screens in high-key colors are looping marketing messages or media art, likely inspired by a C-level executive who exhorts the design team to replicate one they saw elsewhere.

Aware-live and Intel Customer Recognition Technologies
Digital Signage Expo: Toward an Intelligent Environment

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TING: Technology & Democracy
TING: Technology & Democracy
Eldheimar Volcano Museum Interactive Exhibits
Eldheimar Volcano Museum Interactive Exhibits
Learning to See
Learning to See
SkyPad™ Interactive Wall
SkyPad™ Interactive Wall

Interface Design Academic Research

Interface Design EGD Firms

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Interface Design News

bluecadet baseball hall of fame
Bluecadet's Play at the National Baseball Hall of Fame

In addition to interactive debate surfaces, the Whole New Ballgame exhibit features a massive interactive video jukebox queued up with film from decades of baseball for fans to select, watch and watch again on four enormous interactive video displays – each made of four 55-inch screens unified by an IR frame and a thin glass surface that registers touch across the entire wall.

Van Gogh's Bedrooms exhibit at Art Institute of Chicago / Interactives by Bluecadet
Bluecadet Goes Inside Van Gogh's Bedrooms

Bluecadet (Philadelphia) developed a suite of interactives for the Art Institute of Chicago's newest exhibit, Van Gogh's Bedrooms--the first time all three versions of Vincent Van Gogh’s The Bedroom have been displayed together in North America.