- Bean
“Bean is a small, easy-to-use word processor (or more precisely, a rich text editor), designed to make writing convenient, efficient and comfortable. Bean is Open Source, fully Cocoa, and is available free of charge! MS Word, OpenOffice, etc. try to be all things to all people. But sometimes you just want the right tool for the job. That is Bean’s niche.”
- VaryWell
Inserting (whoops!) Interesting Flash interface.
- Letters & Numbers
Nice design work. Some nice interaction as well.
- Alan Cook
Really like the simplicity of Alan Cook’s photography portfolio. Eschews conventions in favour of getting the focus on the work itself.
- SeeShell
SeeShell is an augmented Oyster Card (the RFID-enabled Underground ticket) holder which displays, over time, the journeys a rider has taken. Great stuff. Love the way this blends seamlessly with existing behaviour.
- Viget Inspire
Not often I get excited about CSS/standards driven design these days. Viget’s Inspire blog is an exception though. The typography and overall look-and-feel is wonderful.
- Moodboard
Some nice interaction design on this stock photography site (especially the ‘add to moodboard’ feature). Also good attention to detail on the visual design (my fave being the overlapping arrow on the add to moodboard prompt).
- GotoChina
Just nice.
- An Easy Way to Earn an MLB Salary
This is interesting. Meta-betting of sorts. I guess it’s only the same as buying a share in a racehorse.
- What Don’t We Know About the Pharmaceutical Industry?
Four doctors give insights into: “What’s something that most people don’t know, pro or con, about the pharmaceutical business, whether from an R&D, economic, or political perspective?”. Pharmaceutical companies get a bashing don’t they? Citizen regulated even?
- Shelf
A glance at the potential of the Google Social Graph API, Tom Insam’s Leopard app looks rather cool. Note: If you’re uncomfortable pinging your address book in to the cloud, you might want to check over the prefs.
- Problem Playground
Playful little Flash site from Honda. Cute.
- Where Game Meets The Web
Raph Koster tells the game industry they’re doing it all wrong. And then tells them that to fix it, they need to be more like the web. Entertaining stuff (if slightly rhetorical), especially as Koster deals with a lot of familiar subjects but from a new perspective. Is it me, or does Koster sound (and look?) like Richard Dreyfus’ Matt Hooper? P.S. Don’t know if my download was borked, but the audio file seems to have the second half of the talk glued on to the end — it’s actually only an hour.
- The Long Now Foundation
Every now and then, you discover something ridiculously good and wonder how you’ve not managed to find it before. This is one of those things (thanks Sophie). I’ve only listened to two of the podcasts so far, but both were first-class. Firstly, the ridiculously talented Steven Johnson talks about long zoom thinking and references some of his exquisitely crafted books. Secondly, Will Wright and Brian Eno collaborate — or should I say chat — about generative systems, and the eagerly awaited Spore.
- Fluid
I’m always intrigued by apps that break the traditional browser model. Actually, I’m not sure ‘intrigue’ is the right word. It’s part trepidation, part excitement and then a sense that this is probably a sign of things to come.
- Link to a specific point on Google Video
This is old, but still useful. Love the way, it’s handled in the URL.
- Feltron Eight
Another year, another brilliant piece of design from Feltron.
- There’s only one Barack Obama
Who would have guessed it? Barack Obama is a hammer! This is the last time I link to The Sun (honest).
- Dynamic traffic simulation
Love this (from Interconnected). I’m no programmer, but I see this as a useful model for expressing the concepts/benefits of OOP. In fact, when I was studying for my MA, I tried to build something like this in Director (I didn’t get anywhere). Think I wanted to experiment with intelligent traffic lights.
- Paper CD case
Horrible looking tool for creating foldable paper CD cases. That said, I quite like the whole idea of online nonsense being used to create offline ephemera. In fact, in a different skin (less app, more experience), I could actually see this site being a cute little social space.
- Schematic
Like the spatial thing going on with this interface. Same genes as Relevare and Sofake (two old favourites) which don’t seem to be alive as I post this.
Happy New Year people. I begrudgingly stayed in this evening (it’s Friday). Here’s the guff I looked at:
- Star Wars and UX
Okay, I freely admit to being lured in by the Star Wars thing but there’s some great material here. I’d really like to see Stephen Anderson talk sometime. In case you’re wondering, the Star Wars thing is used to draw parallels with entrepreneurship. P.S. Did you know that George Lucas only decided to kill off Obi Wan during filming!
- Elmwood
Yes, this is fancy-schmancy Flash. And may be a little pompous. But it has got nice-ish URLs. And nice content. And big pictures. Oh and I quote like the idea of language workshops.
- The Small Stakes
Lovely illustration. Great bands.
- Fixed-price contracts don’t work
Well put. Certainly something close to my heart at the moment.
Too busy to post at the moment. Here’s some random guff:
July 26th, 2007
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