Crayon Physics (1)
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Crayon Physics is quite an ingenious little video game, in which the player guides a ball to a goal point, not by directly controlling the ball, but by drawing shapes (for example, ramps that allow the ball to roll from one platform to another, or objects that block and “guide” the ball) with the mouse, tablet screen or drawing pad/tablet. Developed by Petri Purho, Crayon Physics Deluxe is now available on the site. It’s a ...
The Television-ization Of Newspapers On The Web (1)
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So I’m gong through my usual routine, sipping my coffee and visiting the usual handful of news sites. Eventually, I land at the NY Times and I’m confronted with this: It’s not your reliable Times home page with some ads, it’s your reliable Times homepage infested and overwhelmed with an advertisement. The ad not only completely dominates the above-the-fold experience (and my “fold” is generous here, 682 pixels high) but it’s moving around, people are ...
Consumer-Centered Versus User-Centered Packaging (4)
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So here I am, making (bake off) croissants. And thankfully, the packaging designer put some distinctive icons on the packaging (left picture) to help me to prepare them properly. So far so good, but here's the thing: the icons are a nice idea, but they don't contain the right information. The icon on the left indicates I should put the croissants in the oven. I kind of figured that one out. Then there's the icon ...
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bbx said:
Cet article m'a donné envie de faire du design d'emballage.
Working Through Screens - 100 Ideas Worth Reading (3)
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Viaspire - Define.Innovate.Maximize. (0)
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There is an amazing downloadable book out by Flashbulb Interaction that comprehensively reviews 100 Ideas for Envisioning Powerful, Engaging, and Productive User Experiences in Knowledge Work. It is probably one of the most exceptional publications I have read and re-read in a long while.The thorough approach, concepts and flow of information designed in this eBook is truly an amazing investment in creating real value in this information age, specifically for knowledge work. Jacob Burghardt writes ...
The unsubscribe roach motel: an email subscription anti-pattern (2)
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90 Percent of Everything (2)
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For those of you who don’t know the US cultural reference, the Roach Motel is a cockroach trap. Essentially just a small cardboard box with sticky paper inside, Roach Motels were made famous by Muhammad Ali, who at the tail end of his career was hired in as the product spokesman. Interesting choice. “Roaches check in, but they don’t check out”, as the saying goes. While this might be a passable way of getting rid ...
Aviary is flying now! (1)
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Three Aviary image editing tools are now out of beta and for everybody to use. I especially like Peacock, which takes something from the video world (nodal compositing) to create new iterations on images. The more like these appear the more competiton Adobe has and hopefully they will go bankrupt and never publish their overpriced software again. There, I said it, I don’t like Adobe. Now Aviary has Phoenix, image editing (Photoshop without the bloat), ...
Documentary on Ubiquitous computing (1)
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Create Your Own Magnetic Prototype (1)
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Adaptive Path's Alexa Andrzejewski suggests how to create your own magnetic prototypes using printable magnets for user interface elements. Good stuff. Customizable and inexpensive.
Aprirà a dicembre il nuovo Ramada Resort & Aquaworld di Budapest (2)
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Fra pochi giorni Budapest si arricchirà di una nuova struttura alberghiera che potrebbe diventare grossa attrazione di nuovi flussi turistici. Aprirà, infatti, il prossimo 8 dicembre il nuovo Ramada Resort & Aquaworld Budapest, una struttura quattro stelle superior dotata di un parco acquatico con ben 21 piscine, di cui una per il surf. L’albergo, realizzato nella zona nord della città, completerà il ricco panorama termale caratteristico della capitale ungherese. Oggi quasi tutti gli alberghi a ...
Service design in tourism (3)
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DIT-Design in Tourism was an EU-funded project to develop tools suitable for everyday use within the tourism industry and to promote service design competencies from terminology to strategies and concepts. The project has - up till now - not been very well communicated (the site has a lot of empty pages), but a book is in the making and one of the chapters is finished and it is strong. Very strong. Although it doesn’t have ...
Service design in tourism (1)
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DIT-Design in Tourism was an EU-funded project to develop tools suitable for everyday use within the tourism industry and to promote service design competencies from terminology to strategies and concepts. The project has - up till now - not been very well communicated (the site has a lot of empty pages), but a book is in the making and one of the chapters is finished and it is strong. Very strong. Although it doesn’t have ...
It goes crazy if you click! (1)
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Some things are simply too cool not to share. Dontclick.it is one of them. It’s a novel user interface concept that removes the “clicking” element and relies solely on mouse movements and hovers. It’s not perfect. I found myself accidentally hovering over items on occasion that landed between my mouse button and my target. The user doesn’t always know which items will lose the state of the program and which will not. I would imagine ...
Deep Weird Day (8)
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I just moved my New Scientist newsfeed out of Bloglines and into Feed Demon so that I can actually bloody read them, and today’s capture is just outstandingly strange, ugly and wonderful. I should just del.icio.us the lot, really, but this is too good to not lump together as a snapshot of What We Learned Today (Or Overnight, Anyway): I have to say, the NS crew really do have the art of the lede down ...
Google Plans to Shut Down Lively 3D World (16)
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Google announced that on December 31st they will shut down Lively, which was their 3D chat world, and somewhat of a potential competitor to Second Life. Room widgets embedded in other sites are then supposed to show an image but no more interaction, which would add Lively to the list of Google’s canceled products. Google’s post on this decision does not really give a detailed reasoning for this shut-down of a product which was just ...
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wvpv said:
Good. It was lame and made no sense for Google to release it in the first place.
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Mike G said:
lively was idiotic. Hopefully they will put those resources into making google docs more like buzzword.
