“Refresh Dublin is an event that promotes design, technology, usability and standards. It is a part of and inspired by the Refreshing Cities movement. The intent of Refresh Dublin is to provide a cross-discipline insight into all things design, interactive, creative and technical, so that different disciplines can learn from each other.” – RefreshDublin.org

How did Refresh Dublin start?

The “Stanley Kubrick: Taming Light” website was launched last week. The exhibition runs until October 31st in the Lighthouse cinema. I was asked to design and develop the site, in keeping with Kubrick’s taste and style. (more…)

Photo by Niamh Redmond (view ‘WHAT IF’ set on Flickr)

I attended the advance/ member preview of the new Science Gallery exhibit yesterday evening – ‘What If…’.  The exhibition investigates where design meets science to explore the weird, wonderful and sometimes scary possibilities for future technology. The exhibition is curated by leading London based design duo Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby (www.dunneandraby.co.uk).

The project features some very visual and interesting design works, produced by twenty designers from around the world, as well as a range of thought-provoking questions. The exhibition is interesting to me on a number of levels. (more…)

*Canux is the Canadian user experience workshop that is hosted by nForm.

My name is Niamh Redmond. I’m from Dublin, Ireland. On December 28th 2009, I am moving to Vancouver, Canada. At the end of 2008, I made a number of tough decisions. I decided to resign from my job, to reassess my career direction and to begin the process of applying for a Canadian visa. It wasn’t easy to do and I struggled with defining what path I wanted to take in my career and where I wanted to go in order to gain more experience. Each option that I considered kept coming back to a common theme – creating a great user experience.  

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Photo by collinmel (cc)

Last week I attended an Arduino and Flash workshop, hosted by Ben Arent/ CASL on behalf of the IxDA Dublin. The cost of the workshop included a fully loaded Arduino kit loaded with resistors, sensors and switches from SKPang. So plenty to experiment with afterwards.  (more…)