The Design gallery section showcases excellent design at IBM and the designers who are responsible for it. The section focuses on offerings in each of four categories -- software, systems, services, and research -- and lets teams describe why they think the offering they delivered is a cut above the rest. For a full list of design videos visit our YouTube channel.
IBM software products and industry solutions help users innovate and become more flexible, while making the most of current resources and controlling costs.
IBM Systems can provide building blocks of integrated infrastructures that can power innovation while helping you protect your current investments and dramatically improve the economics of IT.
IBM Interactive offers business services, outsourcing services, and business technology solutions and services.
IBM Research is the largest industrial research organization in the world. IBM researchers are active in disciplines ranging from chemistry to management.
IBM user experience and design staff hold user interface patents that are used by people around the world every day.
Software
IBM Lotus Connections 2.5 designers tell the story about how they created its exemplary user experience.
Business Space powered by WebSphere. Rather than pushing paper, businesses can now make use of Web 2.0 to expedite their business processes and bring decreased time to value for their customers.
IBM iNotes ultra-light helps busy executives maintain telephone and e-mail contact with colleagues and have access to their calendars at all times.
Rational Asset Manager is a repository that promotes asset reuse, thereby saving time and effort and promoting consistency and quality.
Lotus Notes 8 began with a challenge: Take a successful product that has millions of devoted users around the planet and make it even better.
Systems
Some people shop for pleasure and some for necessity only. For individuals with disabilities shopping can be challenging. Read about how IBM has designed accessible self-checkout solutions that satisfy the unique needs of retailers in multiple geographies.
The BladeCenter project, the transformation of an existing system for a new market, became an opportunity to redesign the whole user experience.
IBM Interactive
IBM Interactive's exceptional user experience design for flight planning, check-in and flight status, launched the Air Canada iPhone application's trajectory to quickly achieving top ranking in the iTunes store.
The story behind the museum on the Web illustrates the outstanding outcome that resulted from a remarkably close collaboration between a client's team and an IBM User Experience team.
Research
IBM Self-Service travel kiosks in designing for accessibility resulted in enhanced layered audio assistance and other features which represents an excellent example of "Usable Access".
The Beehive, designed to help IBMers address relationship building and people-sensemaking challenges, has 33,000 users buzzing.
The Momail project, an early study of e-mail access on a mobile device, has had important implications for collaboration tools and widget design.
Patents
Innovative searching using an enhanced treeview allows users to see search results in context within a tree view.
Templates for creating generic user interfaces. Many teams now use methods, systems and computer program products for creating user interfaces to applications using generic user interface templates.
"Flying icon" message feedback. Recall when Windows XP was first released and visual representations of processing operations (such as copying files between folders) was first used.
Dynamically extending selection choices. Multiple selection in list boxes and drop down lists implemented in various forms by virtually every Windows application and many Web sites.
Software
(new!) Lotus Connections 2.5: Brings social software to enterprise clients
Systems
(new!) Accessible Self-Checkout improves the experience of people with disabilities
IBM Interactive
(new!) Air Canada iPhone application: Improving the experience for travelers
Research
(new!) Self-Service travel kiosks: Designing for accessible travel