At User Studio, besides designing awesome service experiences for our clients, we do research about the design of creative tools and tangible interactions ↓
It's fun, and it brings in a lot of insights about what the future holds and how we can improve our relations to machines and to one another. After all, that's what service design is all about: learn more ↓
In February of 2019, one last time before going on tour later in the year, our Multiplayer and Autonomous editions of the Tapioca Toys (aka DIRTI aka Dirty Tangible Interfaces) were exhibited during the "Studio 5 en direct" event at Ircam.
Tapioca Toys Cardboard is our contribution to demonstrating how the powerful little devices that we have in our pockets can be used to feel, understand and think the World around us differently.
In June, we were showing the new DIRTI (Dirty Tangible Interfaces) at the Pompidou Center within the "Le son au bout des doigts" exhibition ("Sound at your fingertips").
The free Pixel is Data Live edition app for Mac interprets your photos' pixels in real time and transforms them automagically into art pieces that you can instantly tweak with code and/or sliders.
The objects produced by the Cinétype app for iPhone belong to a new kind of photographic media, where the birthing-process of images is brought forward, taking power and celebrating its profound meaningfulness over the "ultimate" image itself through the use of cinemagics.
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Throughout the history of the studio our co-founder Matthieu Savary has cultivated a passion for interaction design (IxD) and our tradition of research & development in the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).
It's fun, and it brings in a lot of insights about what the future holds and how we can improve our relations to machines and to one another. After all, that's what service design is all about: we enjoy turning complicated things into accessible, desirable things, for the majority and for the greater good.
One of our passions has to do with making tools, and giving the chance to non-specialists to realize things they thought were impossible to make by themselves.
Since 2006 – even before User Studio was founded – we've been developing creative tools. Tools for artists and enthusiasts, tools to create & play music, create images, interpret movement. Tools for small kids, tools for big kids.
It's very often that there is no better way to design a creative tool than to use tangible interaction principles.
As an example, we've created a now famous controller known as the Tapioca Toys – it's actually more of a category of controllers that we invented from scratch, the DIRTI (Dirty Tangible Interfaces), where the interaction is messy and dirty but also infinitely nuanced and expressive… like the real world.
We're constantly looking for surprising new explorations to conduct & share and extraordinary new partnerships to found. Don't hesitate, contact us.