TechYiZu UX Day 2011, Shanghai

On Nov. 5th, TechYiZu held an event named UX Day: DesignINg Shanghai at Bridge 8 phase III. Through lightning talks, mini workshops and a city-wide research & rapid prototyping exercise, it brings new concepts of User Centered Design.

 

 

The event consists of:

• Speech by Greg from IDEO: Designing by Squirting
• Speech by Ryan from Frog Design: Prototyping
• Q&A
• City-wide onsite research
• Prototyping
• Presentation

 

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The Birth of the iLab Logo

Finally, our innovation lab in China has got its own logo! It’s cute, isn’t it?

 

 

The overall idea is pretty simple. The dot of letter i is transformed into a boy’s face. With the huge spectacles and confident facial expression, he represents the characters of geeks. The overlapped circles around the head are like ideas burst out from his brain. Altogether the logo highlights the features of our innovation lab: we are a group of confident and happy geeks with passion for technology and new ideas. Besides, the blue and green color scheme echoes the logo of Standard Chartered Bank.

Here is how this logo was born.

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Best Word Forward – Mobile Speech Recognition Technology?

Mobile Monday Shanghai: Mobile Speech Recognition – Giving Apps a Unique Edge

Speech recognition technology on the smartphone is not new. We can hold down the home button on the iPhone for Voice Control or use dictation apps to capture our thoughts or speeches whilst on the move.

 

 

During the Mobile Monday Shanghai session on 19 September 2011 we were presented with an altogether more ambitions and futuristic vision of mobile speech recognition…

Just Say the Word – Tweet, Post an Ad, Make a Payment & Book flights

A video showed us a pop band tour promoter that used speech recognition technology to organise the tour using the following functions:

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