Apples and oranges
As of Friday, Apple’s market cap is down over 35% from its September 12, 2012 peak. However, since this article was first published on September 23, 2011, Apple’s market cap …
B2B social media
We recently hosted an interesting lunch & learn at our office on the topic of Social Media as a B2B tool. Presented by The Culture of Innovation Collaborative and moderated …
Thick Wired, thin Wired
Daedalus has grown enough in the last few years to be honored again as one of the fastest-growing Western Pennsylvania companies by the Pittsburgh Business Times. Because of this growth, …
Raccoons, Top Gear, and aging eyes
Over the last decade I have purchased three video games for myself (and a couple of hundred for our kids). All of mine have been racing games. Last week I …
My product is on TV!
There is always a flurry of emails at Daedalus when one of the products we helped design is spotted on TV or in a movie. For some reason the excitement …
NTSB cell phone ban
Another update to this story. This is a text message that was never sent. The young man writing it didn’t see his friend soon. He never saw him again. University …
Plastics in medical devices: interaction design
Several of our group recently presented at the 2011 Plastics in Medical Devices Conference, in Huron, Ohio. Here’s what Chris Connors had to say on the importance of considering the …
Driving by touch
The other afternoon it was quite warm out for the drive home, and once again my husband pointed out that I had my car’s air flow directed only on to …
A question of intimacy
The remote was somewhere in the hotel room, maybe buried in the sheets? What I really wanted was that blaring TV off. It was a sleek flat screen model, with …
iPads of their day?: The circular knitter
A couple of totally separate things crossed my path the other day that got me thinking about the longevity of the work we do as designers and the things we …