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iA (Information Architects) release the final beta version of their fourth Web Trend Map.

• The Crisis of Credit – The credit crisis explained using infographics. Nice work from Jonathan Jarvis.
• DC Website Stencil Kit – Neat idea, a stainless steel stencil for prototyping websites.
• Twecipe – Twitter tool that lets you tweet ingredients and sends a recipe back.

• ‘We’re All Gonna Die – 100 meters of existence‘. – Simon Hoegsberg’s 100m photograph shot over 20 days in the same location. More of his photographic projects can be found here.
• Visual Literacy has some useful visualisation tools including the ‘Periodic Table of Visualisation Methods‘.
• MapTube – Mapping site from the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis. There’s some nice map mash-ups including a geographically correct London Tube map and one that maps the credit crunch.

• To celebrate his 30th birthday, Aardman Animations‘ Morph is appearing in a fashion shoot as well as on the cover for Esquire magazines March issue which is out on February 5th. Sadly Tony Hart never got to see the proofs.
• Mental Floss rounds up some Kubrick remix videos including Jason Kottke’s ‘2001: A Space Odyssey, the Chicken Cordon Bleu Danube cut‘.
• The $300 Million Button – Jared Spool on how changing a button increased a site’s annual revenue by $300 million.

• Fantastic looking data visualisation concepts for Google from Grid Plane.
• Userfly – Instant usability testing tool that captures and displays user browsing sessions through adding one line of javascript.
• 12 Standard Screen Patterns, the first of a four part series from Bill Scott and Theresa Neil’s forthcoming book ‘Designing Web Interfaces: Principles and Patterns for Rich Interactions‘. A must have for interaction designer.

• The use of Tilt-shift photography is becoming more and more widespread especially in advertising. Traditionally done using a special lens or using photoshop, you can now just upload an image to Tilt-shift Maker where it’s done automatically. For furtehr inspiration check out these tilt-shift videos from Keith Loutit.
• The brilliance of creative chaos – Clive James on whether clear thinking is possible when surrounded by chaos.
• Wireframes Magazine – Online resource for the sharing of interaction documentation, samples and wireframes.

• Great looking ‘City Railway Maps‘ of Seoul, Tokyo and Osaka from Zero per Zero.
• A ‘Motorway Map of England, Scotland and Wales‘ in the style of Harry Beck’s iconic ‘ London Underground map’
• Five Second Test – Simple online usability testing for user interface effectiveness.

• Vintage footage made by the Eames Office for Herman Miller on the manufacturing process behind the Eames Shell Chair via Core77
• Designing Social Patterns – Great companion resource to the forthcoming book Designing Social Interfaces:
  Principles, Patterns, and Practices for Improving the User Experience by Christian Crumlish and Erin Malone.
• Stokemonkey – Electric hybrid drive for longtails and cargo bikes from Cleverchimp

• Michael Johnson’s ‘ Barrel Art‘ for Glenfiddich. There’s more on the Johnson Banks blog covered in their ‘thought of the week‘.
• Mapping the World’s Fastest Supercomputers. Nice infographics from the New York Times.
• Trulia Hindsight – Animated map of homes in the US that uses historical data to show growth and development over time.

• 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