Monthly Archives: March 2007
Sausages
“Twelve months ago we even heard the sad tale of the Romanian defender Marius Cioara, a man forced to abandon the game he loved for good because of the effect of sausages. Cioara, you may recall, was transferred from the … Continue reading
Concept Maps
Dubberly Design communicate complex topics using their own take on concept mapping. There’s some beautiful examples of information design here which seems to fit nicely with their approach to producing ‘delightful’ software.
The Rescue
The Rescue is a ‘limited edition’ set of tracks written and recorded, one song a day, over eight days by one of my favourite bands: Explosions in the Sky. Reloda are offering the entire album as a free download. Good … Continue reading
Popular Tag Clouds for Purists
Nice implementation of a ‘popular’ tag cloud over at virb.com. Apart from being far prettier than most implementations, it’s also ordered by popularity. The convention seems to be to list tags alphabetically and then indicate popularity through font-size. Virb’s implementation … Continue reading
Back from SXSWi ‘07
After a torturous 48-hour journey home, Paul and I finally arrived back in the UK on Friday morning – 24 hours later than expected. ‘Severe weather’ over Houston meant our scheduled half-hour flight actually lasted seven hours and resulted in … Continue reading
User Goals
Alan Coopers’ About Face 2.0 talks extensively on the importance of personas during the design process. At Clearleft, we use many of the approaches he recommends. Just recently, I was leafing through the relevant chapters and was reminded of a … Continue reading