PocketNoodle “Eventually, everything connects” - Charles Eames

Connected: First 100 Days, Typeface, London

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

• The First 100 Days - Nice infographic detailing achievements by US President’s in their first 100 days of office
• Typeface - Documentary about Wisconsin’s Hamilton Wood Type Museum which explores the convergence of digital design and traditional printmaking.
• London (Harder, Better…) - David Hubert shows what you can do with 3000 photographs, Daft Punk and a bit of patience.

Tags: IA, Infographics, Type
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Connected: Design concepts, iPlayer, Huffduffer

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

• 20 Cool interaction design concepts including a ‘buttonless remote‘ concept designed by Joris van Gelder
• iPlayer downloader - Handy OSX 10.5 application for downloading programs from the BBC iPlayer website
• Huffduffer - Tag based ‘roll-your-own’ podcast app’ for found sounds

Tags: IA, Sound
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Connected: Type is Art, Facebuster, Wireframes

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

• Type is Art - Interactive type tool that lets the user create new forms using letterform parts
• Facebuster - Nice looking fat face from TypeTrust
• Balsamiq Mockups - Handy cross platform application wireframing tool

Tags: IA, IA/UX
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Connected: Skyrails, Game Creation, Skateboarding

Friday, September 12th, 2008

• Skyrails - Impressive open source interactive social networking visualisation tool. Check out the demonstration video and screenshots.
• Atmosphir - Interesting looking game creation tool from Minor Studios.
• “Man, that was fast!” You’re telling me it was! Extreme downhill skateboarding.

Tags: IA, Skateboarding, Visualisation Tool
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Pencil Project

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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