news
february 08
m+mi works is pleased to announce Riddhima Shelat as our interaction architect associate for the openPrinting project. You can follow the design process in peter’s blog.
january 08
Our principal architect, peter sikking, discusses interaction architecture and usability during a two‑hour podcast with host Tim Pritlove and usability consultant Ellen Reitmayr on Chaosradio.
blog
new entry: radio interview + openPrinting.
december 07
new blog entry: GIMP lecture, berlin.
november 07
In cooperation with the local usability scene, m+mi works organises and sponsors the world usability day in berlin. Our principal architect, peter sikking, presents the morning program and lectures in the afternoon to great acclaim on 10 reasons why you can’t morph a mobile into an iPhone.
blog
new entry: 10 reasons why you can’t morph a mobile into an iPhone.
october 07
new blog entries: cross‑platform is bunk; next‑generation printing dialogs /4.
september 07
m+c, Weimar
Our principal architect, peter sikking, leads a session of the usability professionals track at the mensch + computer conference, the largest usability congress in Germany. peter also lectures on the integration of interaction architecture in open source projects.
openPrinting summit, Montreal
m+mi works presents the latest interaction designs from our openPrinting project to all major printer manufacturers, linux distributions and UI platforms.
GIMP UI brainstorm
m+mi works introduces a novel usability method for letting users worldwide participate in interaction design: the UI brainstorm. Read the making of… for a glimpse behind the scenes.
blog
new entries: whistling in the dark; the making of: GIMP UI brainstorm.
july 07
new blog entries: next‑generation printing dialogs /2; next‑generation printing dialogs /3.
june 07
m+mi works presents the first interaction designs from our openPrinting project at the linuxTag expo and conference in berlin. This marks the start of our cooperation with both gnome and KDE UI platforms.
blog
new entries: teaching interaction; linuxTag, printingTag; economic outlook.
may 07
FH Vorarlberg, Austria
Our principal architect, peter sikking, teaches a one‐week course in practical user interaction design at the FH (university of applied sciences). There is a full report in peter’s blog.
libre graphics meeting, Montreal
peter sikking and Kamila Giedrojć present an overview and the first results from our GIMP UI redesign project at the libre graphics meeting. peter blogged the whole shebang, in three episodes.
blog
new entries: more printing in siena; lgm 07, GIMP project overview; lgm 07, top‑10 GIMP user requests; lgm 07, top‑5 GIMP user requests
april 07
New in publications: easily track themes in our blog;
an interview with peter; see us how we work in our open project wikis.
check it out »
blog
new entries: printing in siena; potsdam conference
march 07
libre graphics meeting
peter sikking and Kamila Giedrojć will present an overview and the first results from our GIMP UI redesign project at the libre graphics meeting, May 4–6 in Montreal.
We will show how the openUsability project has been structured for GIMP, and the specifics of applying usability and interaction architecture methods to an application of GIMP’s calibre.
With the first results we will show how this project addresses and provides solutions for the top‐10 requested GIMP features.
openPrinting team meeting
m+mi works organises a two‐day meeting in Siena, Italy. Part of the openPrinting interaction architecture and usability team met for reviewing the work done up to now and to brainstorm solutions for the design phase, in an inspiring atmosphere.
peter sikking blogged about the cool progress made during these two days.
february 07
m+mi works is pleased to announce Andrea Alessandrini as our interaction architect associate for the openPrinting project. You can follow the design process in peter’s blog.
blog
new entry: printing, design, students
january 07
Our principal architect, peter sikking, has been invited to teach a course at the FH Vorarlberg, Austria. He will teach media design students the practical side of designing for software projects and how to realise the product vision.
The students will work in teams under peter’s guidance for an open source project on new interaction concepts. The results will be presented at the uDay V.
peter says: ‘A real development project, real time pressure, a real presentation; Should be way cool.’
blog
new entry: is the iPhone really that special?
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