This screenshot is taken from a “new generation” pdf. It’s actually a mixture of flash, video in a pdf like book.
The idea is to have interactive pdf’s in online publishing. Paper + video
While this sort of new “publishing” could work in offline environments, my personal opinion is that it’s completely useless.
Finally a week full of good news and happiness around us. May your Holidays be calm and bright!
And a movie with the “iterating team”
Interesting article on simple CSS tweaks that can dramatically improve your design.
“Every geek’s a little bit sexy, somehow. Maybe it’s the glasses, the
hot talk about black holes or the Asperger’s-like obsession with
sci-fi, science or gadgets.
But which nerds really moved the sexy needle in 2008?”
Escher, my all time favorite graphic artist, has done in the fifties amazing work with no Photoshop. It must have looked like his graphics came from the future. Maybe a psychic of that time told him “your work looks like it’s done with the help of Adobe, the god of brushes” but nobody believed him
Here are some of my favorites. Just imagine what he could have done nowadays
An interesting article posted in U.S news about what an usability experience specialist is what the profession is all about: Best Careers 2009
What is interesting is that the need for someone to untangle their product becomes more and more acute. Another factor on the web that will for sure contribute for the need of user centric design is the search wiki recently launched by Google. It’s going to push people to worry less about what their page rank is and more about analytics and how their website is presented. Good bye algorithms and keywords. Hello creativity!
Wikipedia says Edward Tufte said in ‘83 that chartjunk is “a lot of ink that does not tell the viewer anything new” and compares it to Adolf Loos “ornament is a crime”
In a ‘08 translation that would be: lots of added graphics in a web page without any purpose other than to tire the eye [...]
When it comes to choosing the right icons you may want to check with your visitors first.
There’s a convention, and everyone recognizes (at least let’s hope that your target does, otherwise you should find another target) the standard icons.
To give a clear meaning and purpose to your website information, icons are a good option. They are more than decoration if you use them wisely
I tried to find a list with all the standard icons on the web but I couldn’t find a more recent one, nor something very comprehensive. Here’s the collection I [...]
This video shows how service designers and their practices create valuable results by interacting with the people. Balancing aesthetics and human needs with organizational capabilities they show us how they are different from other designers
Too bad the results of their work are not shown in addition to their very wordy essays on the process
