Sep 17th 09
How the Lisbon Treaty Might Help Social Progress in the European Union
The Lisbon Treaty’s Social Side is a 3 minute long motion infographic from the European Anti-Poverty Network (EAPN) Ireland, which asks whether the Treaty of Lisbon will help or hinder social progress in the European Union.
The design brief for mmm design of this infographic movie must have been particularly daunting, as the voice-over text jumps from one high-level political and social issue...
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Sep 16th 09
Help, we’re drowning in wireframing apps!
Back in the 1990s, when wireframing was a niche activity, you were pretty much limited to Visio or Illustrator. Nowadays there are a huge number of alternatives. If you want an online app, you can choose from Balsamiq, Just in Mind, iPlots, iZotz, ForeUI, Pidoco, Mockup screens, Wireframe sketcher, Gliffy, Project Draw, Creately, Napkee among zillions of others. Offline the situation is equally messy,...
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Sep 16th 09
Mapping The Archive: 30 Years of Ars Electronica Visualized in Huge Scale
The Ars Electronica festival has finally finished. As I mentioned in my previous “quick look” post before the festival, the most interesting data visualization project exhibited in this year’s Ars Electronica was the 10m by 3m wall print titled “Mapping The Archive: 30 Years of Ars Electronica”, developed by the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute (LBI) for Media.Art.Research.
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Sep 15th 09
Shrinking Financial Industry Market Capitalization as an Animated Treemap
“How the Giants of Finance Shrunk, Then Grew, Under the Financial Crisis” [nytimes.com] displays the market capitalization of 29 of the biggest financial firms on September 11, 2009.
The “animated treemap” graph demonstrates the overall and relative changes in market capitalization over time, since the stock market’s peak in October 2007. Since then, Wall Street’s...
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Sep 14th 09
20 free Wordpress themes with premium-like functionalities
Wordpress is all over the place nowadays, with an endless number of free themes published every day by web designers. Some even took it a step further and published some premium Wordpress themes that you can buy on their websites or marketplaces. What we have for you is even better, a great collection of free Wordpress themes with functionalities just as good as the ones premium themes have.
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Patrick is an accomplished Sr. User Interface Developer and Architect specializing in Web Applications, Web 2.0 and eLearning with extensive experience in the full life cycle of the software design process including project planning, design, testing, client communications, training, de-bugging, implementation and maintenance. His book, Modern Ui, Social Usability for Web 2.0 and Beyond is in production and will be available at Barnes and Noble, Borders, Amazon as well as many other fine retailers in Winter 2009-2010.
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