Sep 9th 09
The Idea of a Tree: Simultaneous Physical Production and Visualization
The idea of a tree [mischertraxler.com] by Katharina Mischer and Thomas Traxler is a system to produce furniture which encodes the sunlight available during manufacturing in its physical appearance.
The work consists of a solar-powered apparatus that pulls threads through a coloring device, a glue basin, and then finally winds them around a mould. The physical height of the resulting object depends...
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Sep 9th 09
The problem with interviewing kids
At UX Brighton last night GiGi Demming (Head of User Testing at SCEE in London) gave a talk on gameplay research involving kids. She neatly summed up one of the problems with interviewing kids – the “I like turtles effect”:
Using a feedreader and can’t see the video?
This video went viral a couple of years ago and has had about 12.5 million views, so you may have seen it before....
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Sep 8th 09
Wiki Growth over Time as a Force-Directed Network Layout
Wiki Growth Over Time [tudelft.nl] visualizes the growth of the website wiki.tudelft.nl since its conception in late 2004. Since then, the wiki has grown to over 10,000 pages, as it is now part of the officially supported ICT infrastructure of the Delft University of Technology.
Using the Prefuse library, all web pages are represented as nodes, while edges are links between those pages. A force directed...
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Sep 4th 09
California Stimulus Map: Mapping Stimulus Projects by County
California Stimulus Map [recovery.ca.gov] provides information about projects known to have been awarded Recovery funding within the geographic boundaries of California, divided by county or city.
Designed by Stamen Design, the geographical map is accompanied by a sort of stacked bar graph on the right side, with a column of animated panel that clarify the individual projects and budgets in detail,...
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Sep 3rd 09
75 Inspirational Web Site Designs + 25 Nostalgic Designs
There are more web design inspiration galleries web sites than you can shake a stick at. Some old stuff in most sites, what if you want something different? What if you are looking for something new, fresh and delivered in a unique way? It can be difficult to find. Hopefully this news edition can help, we have collected the best inspirational web design posts that truelly worth a look at.
How 20 popular...
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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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