via wardshelley.com data + stylized rendering is the new way to make copy beautiful. see Ward Shelley’s gallery for more. Posted via web from Aneesh’s posterous
transdiction n. – a prediction that is fulfilled in an unforeseen manner. #neologism
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Don’t delete files, *obliterate* them. How #Google #Chrome inspires confidence with word choice.
Chrome was misbehaving, so I decided to purge the cache. I got the run-of-the-mill dialog you see above…But then it made me smile. I wasn’t merely going to delete my files. No, I was going to obliterate them. Dude, that’s got to be like 3x-4x stronger than standard Delete and maybe 2x stronger than Secure …
“Intuitive” interfaces defined. Where iPod+iTunes screws this up.
Nowadays, everyone in product marketing wants an “intuitive” interface. The problem is, the word “intuitive” is fuzzy. If we’re not careful, “intuitive” is just jargon for “good.” How can designers create and measure “intuitive-ness”? One piece of the puzzle is response compatibility, the degree to which a control communicates its function. In this article, I’ll …
When a word is worth a thousand pictures
In signs, one sees an advantage for discovery that is greatest when they express the exact nature of a thing briefly and, as it were, picture it; then, indeed, the labor of thought is wonderfully diminished. Gottfried Leibniz Leibniz’s quotation is prescient on the value of visualization, but it doesn’t tell the whole story. As …
Shoe-ser experience – Why Vibram 5 fingers sell themselves
i can’t count the number of times that people have noticed my five finger shoes and struck up a conversation to learn more. i’ve had people ask to touch them—this is unthinkable in some parts of the world—tracing their fingers along the soles in disbelief and exploration, “are they really shoes?” i myself was über-curious …
Magazines on digital tablets – Wired shows the way
Wired and Adobe have a compelling vision of print media gone digital. My take-aways from the video: Designers can influence with smoke and mirrors – Wired and Adobe didn’t have to code anything substantial to generate buzz. Their vision can be proto-faked in a few days with Flash or even PowerPoint. Here comes the late …
Mobile graphics technology
Visual design by Krystal Higgins, Po Wang. Summary Hybrid SLI and NVIDIA Optimus provide users with high performance and long battery life in a single notebook. Reviews of NVIDIA Optimus Hardware Canucks The Optimus software is incredibly intuitive. And the profile system still provides the user all the advanced controls, in case they want to …
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