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United Visual Artists
United Visual Artists are a British-based collective whose current practice spans permanent architectural installation, live performance and responsive installation. Research and development is a core part of our process – enabling us to constantly explore new fields, as well as re-examining more established ones.
We aim to work on a diverse and expanding range of projects, [...]
Typographica’s New Look
Great design resource with a whole new clean tidy appearance. The site had remained unchanged since late 2001. Check out Typographica’s new look. Sensationalism aside, it’s significant that the ever-increasing quality in type design these days — dubbed by some as the new “golden age” of type — has caused this year’s list to supersede [...]
Objectified
Objectified is a feature-length documentary about our complex relationship with manufactured objects and, by extension, the people who design them. It’s a look at the creativity at work behind everything from toothbrushes to tech gadgets. It’s about the designers who re-examine, re-evaluate and re-invent our manufactured environment on a daily basis. It’s about personal expression, [...]
TED: Toy Blocks That Think
What are Siftables?
Siftables are cookie-sized computers with motion sensing, neighbor detection, graphical display, and wireless communication. They act in concert to form a single interface: users physically manipulate them – piling, grouping, sorting – to interact with digital information and media. Siftables provides a new platform on which to implement tangible, visual and mobile applications.
Who [...]
Vincent Laforet Explores the New Canon 5D
Many POD members are avid photographers so we have been intrigued by all the buzz around HD video capabilities in SLR’s. Most of the attention has been directed towards the release of the new Canon 5D Mark II and the video REVERIE, an independently-produced video by Explorer of Light Vincent Laforet. Since the release of [...]
Gramercy Park Hotel Gets Lit Up
This months design inspiration come from our very own Annika Newell and a project that she completed in 2007 in New York City. The project appropriately named Light Bulb Ceiling was a collaboration between Annika & AGNY and created for the Gramercy Park Hotel, Ian Schrager Co.
Inspired by Jeff Wall’s, Invisible Man photo installation, Ian Schrager Co. [...]
Google Earth & Google Ocean: The underwater world is now being mapped to the delight of divers everywehre!
I am soooo excited about this. For years I have been waiting to see if the underwater world would become apart of the Google entourage.
Now the internet company plans to take on one of the last bastions of the unknown: the depths of the ocean.
At a high-profile event in San Francisco, Google is expected [...]
Use it
Great Article from Jacob Neilson’s Site:
Usability and the utility, not the visual design, determine the success or failure of a web-site. Since the visitor of the page is the only person who clicks the mouse and therefore decides everything, user-centric design has become a standard approach for successful and profit-oriented web design. After all, if [...]
Halo unleashed through ux design
By any measure, Halo 3 is one of the most wildly-successful consumer software interfaces in recent memory: more than 1 million players played the game in its first 24 hours on Xbox Live; over 8 million copies sold to date; and “over 100,000 pieces of user generated content being uploaded daily […] 30 percent higher [...]
UX Functional Skills Matrix
As many people know one of my pet peeves is nomenclature and titling in the world of design. If we could establish a skills matrix and positions that where universal it would provide a clearer path for career development and allow us to communicate with a similar language. This is NOT to replace competency mapping [...]
favikon
Favikon is a simple web-based Favicon generator that takes your PNG and outputs a favicon.ico.
Quick and Easy Flash Prototypes
Bring Your Wireframes to Life
To tackle the classic “how to prototype rich interactions” problem, Alexa Andrzejewski developed a process for translating static screen designs (from wireframes to visual comps) into interactive experiences using Flash. Requiring some fairly basic ActionScript knowledge, these prototypes proved to be a quick yet powerful way to bring interaction designs to [...]
CardSort 2.0 by OptimalSort
Click here to try the demo
OptimalSort is card sorting made easier using web based software.
With an elegant user interface, powerful analysis and outstanding support we can help you run successful card sorts better than you ever thought possible.
We Tell Stories
This is a screenshot from ‘The 21 Steps’, by Charles Cumming on We Tell Stories. The site does pretty interesting mashups, utilizing sites including Google Maps and Twitter to tell a stories.
10 Principles of Effective Web Design
Great Article from Jacob Neilson’s Site:
Usability and the utility, not the visual design, determine the success or failure of a web-site. Since the visitor of the page is the only person who clicks the mouse and therefore decides everything, user-centric design has become a standard approach for successful and profit-oriented web design. After all, if users [...]
IBM's design principles
“Our goal for user interface design is to have the interface positively support users’ endeavors and never intrude adversely. The interface should be transparent to the task the user is trying to accomplish and be efficient, satisfying, and fun to use. “
Simplicity: Don’t compromise usability for function
Keep the interface simple and straightforward. Users benefit from [...]
User Experience "Corporate & Hierarchical Nomenclature"
As a Creative Manager we are in charge of nurturing the technical and professional development of our teams. Obviously the “title” is not as important as the actual functional role and value an individual brings to an organization. But I think we could establish a general nomenclature that we could apply across the board. An [...]
websnapr
websnapr is a screenshot service that lets you post screenshots to your by simply referencing the image url in your content. The image above is a websnapr screenshot.
After you register for a developer key, you will be able to provide access to up to 250,000 screenshots every 30 days. Each screenshot includes some text in [...]
Navigate with your webcam
Another interesting attempt at mouseless interaction. You will need a webcam to try it out, but this site uses gesters based on four focal points in your webcam window. Check it out.
Publicis & Hal Riney
Information Design: Makes things beautiful
As an interactive instructor at the Vancouver Film School : Digital Design Department, I get asked number of questions around the subject. Whether it is term one student at VFS or a senior designer the tendency to open photoshop and get it done is still the greatest temptation. Some user experience professionals have greater [...]
Using Design Visuals To Communicate Ideas
Illustration by Christopher Fuller
A Podcast from Vizthink ‘08: Written by Jeff Parks.
Another great article by Boxes and Arrows
OmniGraffle Templates
Get your new OmniGraffle Web Design Templates.
This web design template for OmniGraffle Professional provides the basic layout for a design deliverable including the following master canvases: document title, section title, wireframe (portrait and landscape), storyboard, and blank. The wireframes were created at 950px wide with guides following the Blueprint CSS Grid system. Wireframes also have 2 [...]
Interaction Design Documents : I.D.D.
One of the most common questions people ask me is what should be in an IDD. My response is generally this. We often as design professionals get caught up in process. We know that all design processes start with a problem / opportunity, an understanding of business drivers (KPI’s) and then you need to solve a [...]
Adobe Thermo
The design world is anticipating the release of another creative tool that strikes some fear into the hearts of developers. There have been many past attempts at allowing designers who generally feared entering the foreign matrix of action script and DHTML. Fireworks had us excited with work flows that could be reused in flash, newer [...]