In Ikea's China Stores, Loitering Is Encouraged

By letting visitors linger, the Swedish chain hopes they will buy as their incomes rise

Yang Shuqi paces the aisles of an Ikea store in Beijing, looking for a "small bed with toys." She's not planning to buy one—her grandson Beibei just needs to take a nap. Unfortunately on this Saturday afternoon, every bed in the 43,000-square-meter (463,000-square-foot) store is occupied, with some children and adults fast asleep under the covers...

IKEA Infiltration

Artists take over IKEA store in Hamburg, Germany

InfoVis is Beautiful!

Great supplement to a couple of our classes. Astounding visualizations of information!

http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/

UNIKEA

Kenyon Yeh's UNIKEA is pretty innovative, and his whole portfolio is pretty interesting.

Ikea Mobile Kiosk...

http://www.ohgizmo.com/2008/02/06/ikea-mobile-kiosks-showing-up-in-stores-probably-some-assembly-required/

IKEA Interactive Map

Found this link on the Dayton Daily News website of an interactive store map for the West Chester Ikea.

http://www.daytondailynews.com/p/content/oh/media/living/ikea/

IKEA and game design?

http://redkingsdream.com/2009/10/ikea-and-the-logic-of-videogame-design/

A game design critique's view of IKEA.

OhMyGodWhatHappened

This Book helps you to move into the Digital era of awesomeness. Download it for free: http://bit.ly/4R9rth

(I've already read the first few pages and I'm liking it so far). If you don't want to/can't tweet about it let me know and I'll email you my copy!

REDU

you guys probably already caught this, but this lil guy is some of the best info graphics i've seen in a while.

http://huntergatherer.net/project.php?id=504&cat=1

Ikea Class

Consumer Response to In-Store Price Information Environments

A laboratory experiment evaluated the impact of eight in-store information environments on consumer processing of price information.

http://www.jstor.org/stable/2489023

Comcast Lab

An example project showing diagrams, and conceptual proposals.

Existing Mobile Application for Ikea Shoppers

This app for apple ipods/iphones houses the Ikea catalog and an augmented reality option. The video is pretty interesting. There is also an app for the Droid, but without full catalog and no augmented reality option.

http://www.mobilecommercedaily.com/ikea-takes-its-product-catalog-mobile-with-augmented-reality-app/

IKEA iPhone App

I know my group isn't the only one kicking around the idea of mocking up a mobile application to use within the IKEA store. Here is a link to their current, official application for iOS devices. It seems to be little more than a catalogue...lots of room for improvement.

http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/ikea-catalogue/id386592716?mt=8

Even your Sims can shop Ikea

http://thesims2.ea.com/about/sp8_index.php

The Secret Life of Plants

This will change the way you think about plants...

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4753736638977368381#

(it is kind of slow but worth watching)

Fun, Interactive Map I Found on the Ikea Website

http://www.ikea.com/ms/en_US/the_ikea_story/the_ikea_store/find_your_way.html
http://www.ikea.com/ms/en_US/the_ikea_story/the_ikea_store/find_your_way.html

BAM!

Nokia researching fabric like electronics for future cell phones

Dropping your cell phone is a big deal. For most of us it happens sooner or later, with luck dividing us into those standing on carpet and those standing on cement.

Dropping phones might not be an issue in the future if a current line of research Nokia is pursuing takes off. Dr. Stephanie Lacour of the Nokia Research Centre in Cambridge demonstrates a "stretchable electronic skin" that could one day be the form phones come in, in which case we'd be wearing them rather than holding them, and dropping them would be more like dropping a handkerchief than a crystal dish.

http://www.core77.com/blog/technology/nokia_researching_fabric-like_electronics_for_future_cell_phones_17571.asp?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+core77%2Fblog+%28Core77.com%27s+design+blog%29

Dual screen phone is here!

http://www.core77.com/blog/business/the_astonishing_tribes_interface_design_coming_to_fujitsus_radical_dual-screen_phone_17561.asp?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+core77/blog+(Core77.com's+design+blog)

Eye-tracking on the Ikea website

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKdOMgu0C5Q

pretty interesting to follow someone else's eye vs. thinking about where your own eye would be looking

New Ways to Interact using Portable Technlology

I actually found this last year, but its still a fresh look at what will be possible in the near future. Shows interesting new ways to use body gestures and mobile computing to create a new interactive experience.

http://www.ted.com/talks/pranav_mistry_the_thrilling_potential_of_sixthsense_technology.html

Viral Ikea Advert w/ cats

CATS!

Films of Interest

  Fellini :: Amarcord
   Almodovar :: All about my Mother
   Mike Nichols :: Catch-22
   Sergio Leone :: Once Upon a Time in the West
   Antonioni :: Passenger, Red Desert, Zabriskie Point
   Wim Wenders :: Wings of Desire, Until the End of the World
   Tati :: Playtime
   Jean Luc Godard :: Alphaville
   David Fincher :: Fight Club
   Emir Kusturica :: Underground
   Roman Polanski :: Chinatown
   Cronenberg :: Videodrome, Crash
   Kubrick :: 2001, Dr. Strangelove, A Clockwork Orange, Full Metal Jacket
   Godrey Reggio :: Koyanisqatsi
   Andrew Niccol :: Gattaca
   Mamoru Oshii :: Ghost in the Shell
   Lars von Trier :: The Element of Crime
   Dziga Vertov :: Man with a Movie camera
   Chaplin :: Modern Times
   Coppola :: The Conversation
   Adrian Lyne :: Jacob's Ladder
   Robert LePage :: Le Confessional, Polygraph
   Milcho Manchevski :: Before the Rain
   Resnais + Marguerite Duras :: Hiroshima Mon Amour
   Wong Kar Wai :: Fallen Angels, Chungking Express
   Chris Marker :: Sans Soleil
   Tarkovsky :: Mirror, Nostalghia, Stalker
   Bertolucci :: Conformist
   Pasolini :: Mamma Roma
   Richard Fleischer :: Soylent Green
   James Bridges :: China Syndrome
   Todd Haynes :: Safe
   Terence Malick :: Thin Red Line
   Terry Gilliam :: 12 Monkeys, Brazil
   David Russell :: Three Kings
   Ridley Scott :: Alien, Blade Runner
   Gus Van Zant :: My Own Private Idaho
   Jarmusch :: Mystery Train
   Kaige Chen :: Farewell my Concubine
   Danny Cannon :: Judge Dredd

More photos!

Kiosk

Map

Showroom

ikea 3d kitchen

shop ikea kitchens in 3d! it loads really slowly though… bummer.

http://demo.fb.se/e/ikea/dreamkitchen2/site/default.htm

Giant e-paper displays

Now showing at a Taiwanese book expo: two gorgeous e-paper displays, one in black-and-white and one in color. The approximately 24-inch readers were created by Delta Electronics (no relation to the airliner) and are being used by a local newspaper publisher to survey attendees and gauge interest in their future use. Our friends at Engadget Chinese tell us the color one is less contrasty than its monochrome partner, but beyond that, details are scarce and no one at the booth could provide any specs. One thing's for certain: they're a helluva lot crisper than those 28-inch e-paper billboards popping up around Tokyo. Hit up the read link for more pics.

Source: engadget.com
Originally posted: By Ross Miller Feb 6th 2009 12:53PM

Changing Retail Currency

Download the PDF of this piece on Retail by SF based Method. (also nice design!)

http://method.com/#/detail/Promo/4

Ikea Font Change

A little bit about the Ikea font change this last year.

MORE HERE

- James

The Ikea Experience

Here's an interesting article I found that talks about how many customers despise the Ikea shopping experience, but still come back time and time again.

http://www.customerthink.com/article/ikea_branded_experience_important

Ely Beyer