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MockFlow: Online Wireframing

Apr
2010

Wire framing is an important part of the design process. It doesn’t necessarily require software. Many designers find it quicker and easier to use a pen and paper to get the structure of their designs out of their heads and into a solid form. However, there are a growing number of online and desktop applications [...]

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25 Color Combination Tools For Designers

Apr
2010

There are a lot of online tools to help out with this. They all vary slightly to suit designers with different preferences on how they work. We’ve collected together 25 of the Best here,with a quick overview on each to help you decide which to try. Read more By Lee Ka Hoong, 25 Jan 2010

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Why we don’t need asset management…

Apr
2010

This is a tongue in cheek blog post by Widen Enterprises, a bit cheesy but gets the point across… “I work in a small marketing team of about five. We have a designer, a product manager, a brand manager, a marketing assistant and an online marketer. We work closely with the sales and customer success [...]

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Is Pivot a turning point for web exploration?

Mar
2010

Gary Flake demos Pivot, a new way to browse and arrange massive amounts of images and data online. Built on breakthrough Seadragon technology, it enables spectacular zooms in and out of web databases, and the discovery of patterns and links invisible in standard web browsing. View more From TED.com March 2010

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DLKW turns websites into music with new software

Mar
2010

Delaney Lund Knox Warren has created Codeorgan, a new piece of software that can take any website and turn it into a piece of music. The program, which can be found at www.codeorgan.com, analyses the “body” content of any web page and translates the code into a tune. Read more By Matt Williams, Brand Republic, [...]

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Read the news through Doodle Buzz

Feb
2010

DoodleBuzz is a new way to read the news through an experimental interface that allows you to create typographic maps of current news stories. View By Brendan Dawes

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iPad and the future of email design

Feb
2010

OK, I’ll admit it. I got up early Thursday morning Sydney time to watch Steve Jobs keynote on the mysterious new tablet concept from Apple. While I’m quietly excited about the change this device will bring, there was really only one part of the show that I got out of bed early for. How was [...]

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TED talk – augmented-reality maps

Feb
2010

In a demo that drew gasps at TED2010, Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos new augmented-reality mapping technology from Microsoft. View or download here From ted.com 2010

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5 Terrific TED Talks on Future Technologies

Feb
2010

What will a technology-driven world look like 10, 50, or even 100 years from now? Those are questions that some of the most inventive and outrageous thinkers around have been addressing at the yearly TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) conference. TED presenters have been wowing audiences with their future-tech ideas for a long time, and many [...]

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Case Mate: a great flash site & personalised product shop

Jan
2010

Want a funky iphone cover that is uniquely yours? This is the place for you… Working with patterns, graphics, designs and illustrations from leading artists, you can create your own iphone cover – sent to your home! The site is a stunning use of Flash – great work Play around here

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