Apple’s design process

Wondering what is the secret behind the Fantastic Apple’s Designs and the process followed by Apple Designers. Here it is. Click on the following link to read Apple’s Design Process

http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/techbeat/archives/2008/03/apples_design_p.html

Five designs that changed the world

“You know a design is good when you want to lick it,” says Steve Jobs, founder of Apple Computer. But a truly iconic design must do more than make you salivate. It must have social impact too.

Great design should marry aesthetics with practicality, providing solutions to everyday problems – even if you didn’t know you had them before they came along.

CNN has picked out five great designs from the last 100 years. They are all products which have fundamentally changed the lives of millions of people.
• Volkwagen ‘Beetle’
• The Leica camera’
• The ballpoint pen
• The iPod
• The London Underground map

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History of a ATM

Did you ever wonder about the history of ATM’s. The disruptive technology which bought a revolution in the traditional banking and changed the very dimension of banking. The world’s first ATM was fixed in a branch of Barclays in Enfield, North London, around 40 years ago.

Inspiration had struck Mr Shepherd-Barron, now 82, while he was in bath. “It struck me there must be a way I could get my own money, anywhere in the world or the UK. I hit upon the idea of a chocolate bar dispenser, but replacing chocolate with cash.”

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Web Trend Map 2007 Version 2.0

“Information Design/Architecture to the core” thats what I thought after seeing this Web Trend Map 2007 which consists of 200 most successful websites on the web ordered by category, proximity, success, popularity and perspective . This Trend Map is presented in the form of a tube map. I have really enjoyed browsing this link. So I thought it is worth to put on my blog

Here is the resized and smaller version of the Web Trend Map

Air-Car to be Built by Tata Motors.

Air-Car is the First Vehicle of its Kind in the Automobile Industry which would go into Mass Production by Tata Motors . This is the innovation of MDI Group Head and the Former Formula One Engineer Guy Negre. Air-Car would be the first commercial compressed air powered car. I hope it would be the cost effective car and lure many middle class indian’s to go for one. Apart from cost effective it would also reduce the present pollution problem in India. Let us wait and see how Indians receive this car and use it.
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Here is the Picture of it [Image Source: www.autobloggreen.com]

What is so special working at Google

Are you wondering what is this post about and what is so special working at google and why is google the second most innovative company in the world. just check out the below link to know
what is so special working at google

Growing Business Card

Here is a Business Card with a difference which can be placed on a table as miniature house plant. You just need to dip this business card in water and take it out. which in turn comes out as a miniature house plant.  The Logo has been cut into a ’seed stencil” that allowed the logo to be grown on either earth or lawn; on uncut grass, the message would remain hidden until the area was mown.

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