This is a good topic and a good question for job interviews with interaction, visual, and other types of designers.
Here are a places where I go or things that I do: Metaphor brainstorming Architecture books Trying out lots of software, especially that recommended by other designers Cookbooks (the idea of deconstruction, garnish, aesthetics, etc.) and classes on food design Books with pictures of patterns from nature Books on visualization Museums with design exhibits of many kinds (like the Buckminster Fuller exhibit which goes on display later this month at the Whitney Museum of American Art in NYC). Technology review magazine Design magazines Talks and podcasts (like the one Bill Buxton did at CHI) Physics and science fiction braindrawing exercises Purchasing cool gadgets early (OK, I waited in line to get one of the first Newtons in New England, a sinclair ZX81, many pen devices, a NeXT computer, an iPhone, etc.) and trying them out. Movies - lots of ideas in that Tom Cruise movie about gestural interfaces and predicting murders before they happened Chauncey On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 11:01 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm working on an online project geared towards designers like us and would > love to know: > > Where do you go for inspiration? Ideas? Trends? > > Any and all thoughts are so helpful - thank you! > > I'll be sure to post a link to the new site when it is live. > > Thanks, > Carrie > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > myhosting.com - Premium Microsoft(R) Windows(R) and Linux web and application > hosting - http://link.myhosting.com/myhosting > > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
