Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
- Aurora - Web interface concept from Adaptive Path that explores “new ways people could interact with the Web in the future based on projected technological trends and real-world scenarios”. Designed as part of the Mozilla Labs concept browser series, Aurora is designed around four themes: Context awareness, natural interaction, continuity and multi-user applications. HD versions of the series of videos can be found here.
- Britain from above - New series from the BBC exploring the topography of Britain using satellite technology and aerial photography. Starts Sunday 10th August. Preview.
- Incredible satellite images of earth via Environmental Graffiti
Tags: BBC, UI, UX
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
The BBC have just launched a public beta of their music site, BBC Music. Using data from MusicBrainz! and Wikipedia, BBC Music Beta enables users to explore artists played on BBC Radio. Artist profiles currently show a biography, discographies, BBC appearances and related artists information with the data available in a variety of ‘RESTful’ formats including XML, YAML, JSON, RDF, Atom and RSS.
The IA is good and the overall design works well within the new BBC web guidelines. It definitely looks like it should easily scale as more data gets added and it looks like there’s plenty of scope for integration with other BBC data sources such as programmes, events, news, album reviews and even iPlayer. One to keep an eye on!
Tags: BBC
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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
The Pencil Project An open source prototyping extension for Firefox 3 that allows a user to create GUI prototypes using built in stencils which can be saved and exported as .pngs.
It looks like it could be pretty handy for the odd job but I found it slightly quirky and slow compared to using an offline application, also there’s a current lack of stencils (shape collections) which I guess will change. Where it might come in handy is rapid prototyping with clients at brainstorming sessions. One to watch as more developers come on board and I’m sure we’ll be seeing a lot more of these online tools.
Tags: GUI, IA, Prototypes
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Monday, July 7th, 2008
- Space Project 1 and 2. Intriguing photographs from Vincent Fournier.
- Furniture manufacturer and museum Vitra have re-designed their website and to celebrate are running a competition to win one of 33 products including several by Charles and Ray Eames. Enter here.
- Welie - Nice collection of interaction design patterns
Tags: Eames, IA, Vitra
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Saturday, July 5th, 2008
Tags: API, IA, Star Wars
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