Display Shows:

My Language:

Design Critique: Products for People

Design Critique encourages usable product designs for a better customer experience. Using principles and experience from our careers helping clients and employers create usable products, we critique software and hardware based on long-term experience with them in our own lives. We also interview our peers ...

Design Critique encourages usable product designs for a better customer experience. Using principles and experience from our careers helping clients and employers create usable products, we critique software and hardware based on long-term experience with them in our own lives. We also interview our peers in the user experience-related fields of User-Centered Design (UCD), human-computer interaction (HCI), usability engineering, information architecture, technical communication, interaction design, customer research, and more! All while maintaining a light-hearted spirit of inquiry about how we can improve the world by designing products that serve people better. Tim and Tom debate the merits of the Sony Shower CD Radio, model ICF-CD73V. Topics include the difficulty of designing for a complex audience, and the need for buffers in electronics so they remember things like: point last played on a CD, their settings when batteries are changed, and a few seconds of music to compensate for bump-induced skips during playback.

Show all Visit Show Website http://designcritique.net

Recently Aired


  • HD

    Listener Feedback with Eric Gauvin, DEC2011

    A new Design Critique episode type is born. When someone ...

    A new Design Critique episode type is born. When someone sends feedback on an episode, they may be asked to come on the show and discuss what they had to say. That's how Eric Gauvin from the USA got roped into doing an episode with Tim regarding...

    Dec 14, 2011 Read more
  • HD

    DC85 Critique: Sustainable Shaving Tools

    In which Tim Keirnan and Mike Beasley discuss vintage shaving ...

    In which Tim Keirnan and Mike Beasley discuss vintage shaving tool designs, featuring the safety razor and straight razor. Shaving with these old methods has many advantages, including:* Closer shaves that last longer before the dreaded 5 o'clock...

    Nov 24, 2011 Read more
  • HD

    DC84 Panel: The State of the Internet User Experience, 2011

    Recorded live at Internet User Experience 2011 on October 11th, ...

    Recorded live at Internet User Experience 2011 on October 11th, it's the panel session "The State of the Internet User Experience" starringMarti GukeisenDave Mitropoulos-RundusDante MurphySusan Weinschenkand Tim Keirnan as the moderator.Learn more...

    Oct 31, 2011 Read more
  • HD

    DC82b Critique: Logitech Customer Service

    In this followup to episode DC82a, Tim describes the conclusion ...

    In this followup to episode DC82a, Tim describes the conclusion of his interaction with Logitech Customer Support. Unlike the MINI/BMW car maker attitude towards service after a sale, Logitech proves itself exceptionally good at listening to a...

    Oct 23, 2011 Read more
  • HD

    DC83 Longitudinal Review: 2009 MINI Cooper

    The longitudinal review of Tim's 2009 MINI Cooper is here! ...

    The longitudinal review of Tim's 2009 MINI Cooper is here! A car so unreliable that he had to get rid of it after only 2.5 years. Automotive human factors engineer Ken Mayer (cohost from our earlier Saturn SC2 car critique) returns to help Tim on this...

    Sep 13, 2011 Read more
  • HD

    DC82 Longitudinal Review: Logitech Pure-Fi Anywhere 2

    Tim critiques the Logitech Pure-Fi Anywhere 2 portable speaker system ...

    Tim critiques the Logitech Pure-Fi Anywhere 2 portable speaker system for iPods, iPhones, and other sound-making gadgets. The Pure-Fi Anywhere was Logitech's sequel to the highly successful mm50, which Tim and Alan reviewed way back in episode DC39....

    Aug 31, 2011 Read more
  • HD

    DC81: 6th Anniversary Episode with Dr. Susan Weinschenk on 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People

    Sixth Anniversary Edition! Dr. Susan Weinschenk joins Tim Keirnan for ...

    Sixth Anniversary Edition! Dr. Susan Weinschenk joins Tim Keirnan for a discussion of her latest book, 100 Things Every Designer Should Know About People. Not just a collection of opinons, 100 Things... presents up-to-date research on the fundamentals...

    Jul 29, 2011 Read more
  • HD

    DC80: Calculating ROI for Usability at Ford Motor Company with Chad Esselink

    Time for another wordcast episode, this time on ROI. Chad ...

    Time for another wordcast episode, this time on ROI. Chad Esselink from the Ford Motor Company joins Tim Keirnan for a discussion on calculating return on investment for UX projects and forming a usability team. While at Ford, Chad used case studies...

    Jul 1, 2011 Read more
  • HD

    DC79 Interview: Author Giles Colborne on Simple and Usable: Web, Mobile, and Interaction Design

    Author Giles Colborne from CX Partners joins Tim Keirnan for ...

    Author Giles Colborne from CX Partners joins Tim Keirnan for a discussion about his book Simple And Usable: Web, Mobile and Interaction Design. To quote the back cover:"Simplicity is a discipline that can be learned. This book shows you how with...

    Apr 29, 2011 Read more
  • HD

    DC78 Interview: UPA Body of Knowledge Project with Carol Smith

    Tim interviews Carol Smith about the Usability Professionals Association's body ...

    Tim interviews Carol Smith about the Usability Professionals Association's body of knowledge project. Carol led Michigan UPA members in a body of knowledge work day hosted at the offices of Tec-Ed, Inc., in Ann Arbor on Saturday, March 26, 2011.If you...

    Apr 1, 2011 Read more
Loading...