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• 50 Years of Space Exploration. Great looking infographic from National Geographic.
• AB Tests – Handy online resource that lets users create and test websites and applications.
• Service Design Tools – Design tool and pattern resource.
• The Billion Dollar Gram – Trying to make sense of the billions spent by governments using scale.

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

• 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

• 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.

• 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