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O'Reilly Media is exploring the role design will play in the Internet of Things and the future of business. Learn more: http://oreil.ly/1vH96Vb

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This Royal Aeronautical Society lecture provides a short version of the story and process that led up to Equator Aircraft Norway SA and the P2 project being created, and the methods that were used to create the aircraft.

Equator Aircraft - The Impact of Industrial Design

We often talk about designing security into a product from the get go, but we don't often discuss what that means. In today's podcast John Kestner, a principle with Supermechanical, the company behind the Twine sensor and the Range thermometer, shares his thoughts on how he designed Twine and range to be more secure but also how we might design our devices to indicate that what was once a humble lock is now a connected computer with all the pros and cons that entails.

Before Kestner and I dig into security, Kevin Tofel and I talk about my experience playing with the Logitech Harmony Ultimate Remote and home hub and then we dig into CSRMesh and the Bluetooth SIG's creation of a working group to add mesh networking to the Bluetooth Smart standard. That could put Bluetooth in closer competition with thread, Zigbee and Z-wave. So kick back and listen up.

Hosts: Stacey Higginbotham and Kevin Tofel
Guests: John Kestner, principal with Supermechanical

Thoughts on the Logitech Harmony Hub and remote (it's pretty nifty, guys)
The Bluetooth SIG is forming a working group on mesh technologies. Why this is cool!
Should you rely on security by obscurity or hope your device doesn't do much that's scary as a way to be secure?
Thinking about how to convey connectedness in design

How to design security into your connected product

O'Reilly's Mary Treseler talks with Andy Goodman, designer and group director of Fjord’s US studios, about service design, embeddables, and predictive analytics.

Designing On A System Level

O'Reilly's Ben Lorica chats with David Blei, co-author of the seminal paper on topic models, and who remains one of the leading researchers in the field. They talk about the origins of topic models, their applications, improvements to the underlying algorithms, and his new role in training data scientists at Columbia University.

Topic models: Past, present, and future

The Internet of Things is challenging designers to rethink their craft. I recently sat down with Claire Rowland, independent designer and author of the forthcoming book Designing Connected Products to talk about the changing design landscape.

During our interview, Rowland brought up three points that resonated with me: interoperability and the Internet of Things, experience designers and networks, and the IoT’s latency problem.

For more on our interview and for related links, check out the related post on O’Reilly Radar: oreil.ly/1EoyfUV

The complexity of the IoT requires experience design solutions

Industrial designers and interaction designers are joining forces to create the best services for Internet of Things (IoT). Mary Treseler sat down with Martin Charlier, a design strategist with a unique distinction of having both interaction and industrial design experience to talk about how the IoT is changing the design landscape, including team dynamics, responsible design, and value-driven design.

For more on the interview, visit O'Reilly Radar: oreil.ly/15eLqvC

Interaction and industrial design team up to serve the IoT

O'Reilly's Ben Lorica talks with Angie Ma, co-founder and president of ASI, about the concept of the ASI, the structure of their training programs, and the data and startup scene in the UK.

Turning Ph.D.s Into Industrial Data Scientists and Data Engineers

O'Reilly's Mary Treseler chats with Phil Gilbert, GM of design at IBM about how he's helping to lead the transformation to a design-first company within IBM.

IBM is Banking on Design's ROI

O'Reilly's Mary Treseler chats with Scott Jenson, who is currently developing the Physical Web Project with the Chrome team at Google, about empathy, interaction on demand, and Google’s Physical Web Project.

Empathy: The Designer's Superpower

O'Reilly's Mary Treseler talks with information architect Jorge Arango about the state of IA and the importance of designers' understanding of context and perspective.

Information Architecture's Role in UX Design

O'Reilly's Mary Treseler chats with PARC's Mike Kuniavsky about PARC’s work on IoT and the mindset shift the IoT will require.

Designing for Ecosystems: Making Meaningful IoT Products and Services

O'Reilly's Nick Lombardi chats with Laura Klein, designer, researcher, engineer, and author of "UX for Lean Startups" and the popular design blog Users Know.

Design for Success: Manage Business and User Goals

Joe Biron, VP of IoT technology at ThingWorx, on how the IoT entails a flexible platform approach to accommodate new applications that haven’t been conceived yet.

Joe Biron on Whats New About the IoT

Katie Dill on designing for seven billion people, hiring good people, and the triforce.

Airbnb's Design Approach

Mike Kuniavsky, a principal scientist in the Innovation Services Group at PARC, on designing for the Internet of Things ecosystem and why the most interesting thing about the IoT isn’t the “things” but the sensors. He also talks about his deep-seated love for appliances and furniture, and how intelligence will affect those industries.

Mike Kuniavsky on the Tectonic Shift of the IoT

Our guest on this week’s episode of the O’Reilly Hardware Podcast is Robert Brunner. Brunner was director of industrial design at Apple from 1989 to 1996, overseeing the design of the PowerBook. He was the chief designer of Beats by Dr. Dre, the design-driven line of headphones that Apple acquired for $3 billion last year. And he’s the founder of Ammunition, which has worked with startups and large companies on a wide range of innovative consumer products.

Robert Brunner on Designing and Building Great Products

This episode of the Hardware Podcast features Jon Bruner's second discussion with Joe Biron, VP of IoT technology at ThingWorx, a PTC business that offers a platform for rapid deployment of Internet of Things applications.

Joe Biron on IoT Platforms

A sexy, downtempo Triphop song. Sultry female voice creates a dreamy and lush vibe. Think of Massive Attack, Portishead and Zero 7.

Moby Not

Driving change with strategic design in diverse industries - from healthcare to automotive - has emerged as the dominant theme in the first year of the MEX podcast. Hosts Marek Pawlowski and Alex Guest review memorable insights from some of the 20+ guests who've been on the show over the last year and discuss how they've evolved since. The conversation leads to a discussion of user experience lessons Alex is now applying in his own start-up and exciting plans for the future of MEX Design Talk. Thanks to all our guests, listeners and contributors for a great first year! Get in touch with feedback and questions @mexfeed on Twitter or email designtalk@mobileuserexperience.com.

Show notes with links to everything discussed:

https://www.mobileuserexperience.com/?p=4607

Contact:

T: https://twitter.com/mexfeed/
E: designtalk@mobileuserexperience.com

Design Talk

Strategic design; 1st anniversary special with Marek Pawlowski & Alex Guest

We are proud to present you a compilation of the best tracks of the Athens based Trip Hop duo The Blue Square.
Limited ed. 12" vinyl in red or black colour: http://bit.ly/2fo1wbQ
All platforms: http://smarturl.it/thebluesquare

Conceived in Athens, Greece, The Blue Square is the duo of Radim (Vasilis Sourais) and Radical (Christos Volotas) who have come together with a love of noir atmospheres, old spy films, and dusted, jazzy beats. Since their beginnings in 2010, The Blue Square have been making waves with their explorations into instrumental hip hop, nu-jazz, and trip hop, and earned slots DJ’ing alongside Wax Tailor, ASM - A State Of Mind, Bonobo, and Gramatik. Paul Cheeba of Morcheeba is also a fan, premiering a track by The Blue Square on the widely listened to Trip Hop Nation podcast.

The pair’s self-titled debut album – and their first release on vinyl – has been issued by Greek label Melting Records and delivers heaps of cinematic vibes and crucial rhythms. The Blue Square have expressed a desire to create ‘soundtracks for imaginary films’ and their album certainly fits the bill. “Believe’, the opening cut, quickly sets the tone with a heavy lounge feel wrapped in vibraphone melodies, saxophone riffs, and classic beats. “Tic Toc” mashes together a number of styles and sounds, featuring desert guitars, vintage keys, and hip hop vocal drops over some seriously dope drums. “Mama”, with vocalist Esterina, showcases the diversity of the crew, as it’s a deliciously jazzy vocal number that transports the listener to a nostalgic club scene while firmly rooted in its contemporary base.

These are just a few highlights from the eleven track album, and the different moods and sounds provide an infectious ‘sonic film’ from The Blue Square’s imagination. Dive in and drift away.
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releases December 15, 2016

All tracks Recorded & arranged by The Blue Square

Guitars on track 2 by Manos Paterakis on track 2 , 9 
Vocals on track 3 by Gregg Green 
Cuts on track 3 by DJ Enthro 
Vocals on track 4 & 6 by Esterina 
Guitars on track 4 & 6 by Panos Kalkanas 
Contrabass on track 4 & 6 by Thodoris Ifantis 
Drums on track 4 & 6 by Dennis Panagiotidis 
Vocals on track 7 by Melentini 
Guitars on Track 7 Vagelis Katsabekis 
Vocals on track 8 by Phil Diamond 
Guitar on track 9 by Manos Paterakis 
Flute on track 10 by Hugo Kant 
Bass on track 10 by George Ladogiannis 
Guitars and Bass on track 11 by George Ladogiannis

Re-Mastered by Kasablanka Mastering 
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Front Cover by Frank Moth 
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Artwork Design by Manolis Chalkiadakis 
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Follow The Blue Square : 
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Melting Records © 2016 
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The Blue Square LP

The Blue Square Ft. Gregg Green - Pie In The Sky

Vinyl 12''

The Blue Square Ft. Gregg Green - Pie In The Sky - MR006 (Vinyl 12'' & Digital)

Restless Night

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