Category Archives: Design
ProtoDojo’s Nintendo Controller Secure USB Drive
My pal Joven, over at ProtoDojo has been at it again, this time creating a secure Nintendo USB drive. Now THAT is a USB drive. He writes about his motivation, “When cleaning out the garage a few weeks ago, I found my original Nintendo Entertainment System. Rather than sell it on ebay, I decided to [...]
Value of Front End Developers & the Web
Paul Carvill, a uk based web developer, interaction designer, user experience expert and information architect has a nice post on his blog about the role and value of the front-end developer: http://www.paulcarvill.com/2009/09/why-front-end-developers-are-so-important-to-the-future-of-businesses-on-the-web/
Grasshopper Graphical Algorithm Editor
Awesome generative modeling for Rhino3d. It’s for designers who are exploring new shapes using generative algorithms. Grasshopper is a graphical algorithm editor tightly integrated with Rhino’s 3-D modeling tools. http://www.grasshopper3d.com/
Realtime Firefox 3.5 Downloads
Have you downloaded 3.5 yet? Watch the downloads in a sparkline type graph in realtime. http://downloadstats.mozilla.com/
Street Art
http://jalopnik.com/5137364/roadsworth-street-art-painted-on-actual-streets
The Grid System
Great resource here: http://www.thegridsystem.org/ Remember to break it so it retains it power. Here is a preachy little quote from the site, “The grid system is an aid, not a guarantee. It permits a number of possible uses and each designer can look for a solution appropriate to his personal style. But one must learn how [...]
Thoughtpile
Herman Miller’s Thoughtpile: http://www.thoughtpile.org My thought: cool concept, but needs a little restraint – trying just a little too hard…
Obama Font
Obama font here: http://jeffdomke.com/?p=374 Nice work Jeff.
Y!OS : Yahoo Open Strategy
This looks interesting… http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2008/04/introducing_the_1.html Y!OS platforms will harness Yahoo!’s unique strengths – our rich and relevant user experiences (we’re #1 in 7 verticals), our massive audience (half a billion users/month), and our deep data repositories (content, content, content) – and open them to the innovations of the developer community. Our aim: to fundamentally transform how [...]
Information Design = Complexity + Interdisciplinarity + Experiment
Great article by Gerlinde Schuller over at AIGA “Information design is explained in only three languages in Wikipedia. The term is not even listed in Encyclopaedia Britannica. This shows that the discipline is still far from having established itself, although its approach is as old as the cultural history of mankind. Information design focuses on [...]