Interactive Design – Thought Different

March 15, 2018 In Business, Immersive Design, Interactive Design By Thought Different

The Cool Planet Experience opens its doors

We are delighted that the Cool Planet Experience has just opened its doors to the public. Thought Different’s largest and most complex project to date. We would like to thank everyone on our design team for their hard work and dedication. Happily, our work has already been acknowledged by a nomination for Best Creative at the Digital Media Awards 2018 and winning the award for Best in Technology Innovation; achieving our mission statement — to create unique, meaningful, immersive and interactive experiences.

Wishing the client team at The Cool Planet Experience the best of luck today. It’s an inspiring project that can truly change the world.

July 5, 2017 In Interactive Design, Interface Design By Thought Different

The True cost of a CMS

Image courtesy of Library of Congress – Amelia Rosser as Ireland (April 1920)

We often are asked to ensure that our software is “easily updatable”. A decent client facing CMS seems too often to be a pre-requisite to an interactive’s design. Now, we use CMS for handling the content a lot, but that decision, always comes at the end of the initial design process. It should never be determined at the beginning.

June 29, 2017 In Interactive Design, Interface Design By Thought Different

What a difference a day makes…

Today marks the 10 year anniversary of the release of iPhone. The one that transformed the mobile industry overnight. In preparing to write something about it I thought I would dial back the clock and read through ArsTechnica’s excellent (20,000 word) review. The internet in your pocket, an onscreen keyboard, YouTube on demand, no Flash were just some of the highlights. But two things struck me most about it — multitouch and text messages.

June 20, 2017 In Interactive Design, Interface Design, New Technology By Thought Different

Reinventing the Wheel…

I’ve been annoyed by an ad by VW at the moment that seems to be playing a lot online. In the advertisement for the new Golf they feature their new “Gesture Control”. In the ad, and I’ve seen a couple of versions since trying to find the original, the driver can change to the next track of music by swiping his hand right in front of the touchscreen interface.

June 13, 2017 In Interactive Design, New Technology By Thought Different

Are touchscreens for public use dead?

It’s hard to believe that only 10 years ago, most people’s experience of a ‘touch screen’ was limited to public exhibitions or fancy showrooms. Today, however, we use them countless times a day, sometimes across multiple devices. So the question is, do interactive touchscreens have a place in the 21st Century?

May 30, 2017 In Interactive Design, New Technology By Thought Different

Tech-no Notice

So today I was with a previous client chatting about their plans for their next temporary exhibition. It will feature original manuscripts and leaflets from 1917 and some of them are amazing. Graphically, visually and historically.

They had also recently been approached by a company offering “transparent interactive display cases”, and he asked “should we use them?”. I simply responded with “Why?”. He thought about it for a second and then immediately chuckled and said “yes, why would we cover up the items”. And he was right, why would we hide amazing original tangible materials behind a digital interface once you touched it?READ MORE