#design (850 links)
- The New Negroponte Switch slideshare.net
Talk from Matt Jones. Spimes!
- Milton Glaser - Ten Things I Have Learned miltonglaser.com
- RoamBi - Your Data, iPhone-Style roambi.com
Dynamic visualizations for the iPhone.
- Dear Dustin Curtis | Dustin Curtis dustincurtis.com
If the UX architect at AA.com is actually pretty good, then why does the site suck so much?
- Pirata London - Your Digital Production Partners piratalondon.com
A really little content management system for when you (or your clients) need to edit content without the hassle of setting up a big CMS.
- Rossignol » Thrilling Wonder Stories rossignol.cream.org
- National Theatre Posters ntposters.org.uk
This website contains over 650 posters from the National Theatre Archive. Beautiful photographic quality prints are available in a range of sizes and prices, supplied ready for framing and delivered to your door.
- Colour Contrast Analyser :: Firefox Add-ons addons.mozilla.org
Still experimental "A colour contrast analyser that examines the foreground and background colours of text nodes, and provides a report to see if they are correct according to AERT and WCAG's luminosity colour contrast algorithm."
- Made By Many » Blog Archive » The future of wireframes? madebymany.co.uk
I’ve yet to meet a developer who would choose to build a screen from a wireframe over a Photoshop document, regardless of how many helpful and important details the wireframes may contain. Realizing this is human nature, we now annotating our PSDs rather than wireframes. Why hold the information in a document that’s no one wants to read?
- Urbis - videogame nation urbis.org.uk
Videogaming exhibition in Manchester.
- Bands & Design | A blog about Bands and Design. bandsanddesign.com
- Kickstarter kickstarter.com
A funding platform for artists, designers, filmmakers, musicians, journalists, inventors, bloggers, explorers...
#design #music #business #social #work #creativity #startup #ideas #entrepreneurship#fundraising#funding #art - littleBits littlebits.cc
An opensource library of discrete electronic components pre-assembled in tiny circuit boards. Just as Legos allow you to create complex structures with very little engineering knowledge, littleBits are simple, intuitive, space-sensitive blocks that make prototyping with sophisticated electronics a matter of snapping small magnets together.
- Rolando 2 - games - ngmoco:) rolando2.ngmoco.com
- Creating prototypes with OmniGraffle | urlgreyhot urlgreyhot.com
I've used Visio and Axure Pro in the past to do quick and dirty demos of interaction. With Visio, it's been easy to link sheets together. But I've been spending my time primarily in OmniGraffle Pro lately, so I wanted to demonstrate to the other Mac-using IA's and IxD's out there how you can do the same thing.
"So, is Interaction Design a dead-end job? As an expertise, no. But as a discrete service offering or a career path, I say absolutely." Slightly inflammatory; read on for the significant caveat.
- Thingiverse - Digital Designs for Physical Objects thingiverse.com
Ooooh. "Thingiverse is a place for you to share your digital designs with the world. We believe that just as computing shifted away from the mainframe into the personal computer that you use today, digital fabrication will share the same path."
- The Sexy Curls jQuery Plugin by Elliott Kember elliottkember.com
Creates a page fold effect in the top right corner.
- Spoonflower: Print custom fabric on-demand spoonflower.com
- metacool: 1: Experience the world instead of talking about experiencing the world metacool.typepad.com
The signature behavior of people who routinely achieve innovative outcomes is that they constantly seek to experience the world instead of talking about experiencing the world.
- Usable Accessibility: Making Web Sites Work Well for People with Disabilities :: UXmatters uxmatters.com
The concept of usability often seems to exclude people with disabilities, as though just access is all they are entitled to. What about creating a good user experience for people with disabilities—going beyond making a Web site merely accessible to make it truly usable for them?
- Designers Toolbox: Web Safe Area designerstoolbox.com
PSDs illustrating safe areas for various browsers.
- Information Architects » Blog Archive » Web Trend Map 4 - Final Beta informationarchitects.jp
New Web Trends map is nearly there.
- 100% 100per.com
Nice Japanese products. Crazy words. "100% is condition beyond reasons. Not the scheduled or harmonized world, but the world where we live is filled with the logically un-analyzable mysterious factors beyond the range of expression with words and numerical value."
- Method Cards - Case Studies - IDEO ideo.com
A collection of 51 cards representing diverse ways that design teams can understand the people they are designing for. They are used to make a number of different methods accessible to all members of a design team, to explain how and when the methods are best used, and to demonstrate how they have been applied to real design projects.
- Ponoko – Buy Make and Sell Almost Anything ponoko.com
Like Shapeways but uses "two-dimensional laser cutters; 3-D objects need to be assembled afterward."
When all the sections end evenly on the page, users subconsciously decide there isn’t anything else to look for and don’t try to scroll. Of course, if they don’t scroll, they miss important content, such as the list of products.
- 50 swinish ways to annoy web users | Blog | Econsultancy econsultancy.com
Makes a handy checklist of stuff not to do.
- Striking Web Sites with Font Stacks that Inspire - Inspiration Bit inspirationbit.com
More on font stacks.
- Rescue Team Management, Incident Logs, Analytics: Decisions For Heroes. decisionsforheroes.com
Makes me wish I was a hero. "A collaborative rescue team management tool to record and analyse rescue operations. Instead of archiving information as paperwork, we act as a platform, generating real-time profiles of members, available resources, and activities. Decisions for Heroes uses this data to deliver live and intelligent information to the field."
- 960 Grid System 960.gs
Really don't like these grid-based frameworks but there's some useful general info on grids here.
- Noby Noby Boy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia en.wikipedia.org
The player accumulates points by how much they stretch during gameplay. These points can be submitted online via a character called Sun to another character called Girl. Points submitted online by players to Girl will be added cumulatively, causing Girl to stretch. Beginning on Earth, Girl will stretch to the Moon, then to several other planets, each unlocking new playable environments for Boy to stretch in. The Noby Noby Boy team expects players to take between one and two weeks of cumulative play time to reach the Moon.
- Exporting the past into the future, or, “The Possibility Jelly lives on the hypersurface of the present” « Magical Nihilism magicalnihilism.wordpress.com
"My attitude to most Location-Based Services [...] has been hardened by sitting through umpty-nine presentations by the white-men-in-chinos who maintain a fortune can be made by the first company to reliably send a passer-by a voucher for a cheap coffee as they drift past *bucks." This post is not that.
- BBC - Radio Labs - How we make websites bbc.co.uk
For the past few months I've been touting a presentation around the BBC entitled 'How we make websites'. It's a compendium of everything our team has learned from long years developing /programmes, the recent work on /music and the currently in development /events.
- Javascript grid overlay | Labs | Pete Goodman - Web Developer petegoodman.com
Handy. "To show or hide the design grid (or other graphic), just import the following javascript file, and then use the keys Control and ; to show or hide the grid."
- Model View Presenter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia en.wikipedia.org
A software pattern considered a derivative of the Model-view-controller
For throwing at certain designers. Surprising how poor some cta's are.
- CR Blog » Blog Archive » The Designers Republic Is Dead; Long Live The Designers Republic creativereview.co.uk
Designers Republic goes under. "I’ve never liked that agency model - it’s not where creativity lies. DR accidentally ended up there in order to service bigger clients. I’m not being ungrateful to the people who ran the business side at DR – it wasn’t their fault. I’m glad we did it - it took getting there to make me realise that it wasn’t where I wanted to be."
- The Impossible Project the-impossible-project.com
We aim to re-start production of analog INTEGRAL FILM for vintage Polaroid cameras in 2010. We have acquired Polaroid's old equipment, factory and seek your support.