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Design the invisible to tell better stories on the web

Jan
2012
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For design to be meaningful we need to tell stories. We need to design the invisible, the cues, the messages and the extra detail hidden beneath the aesthetics. It’s all about the story. From verbal exchanges around the campfire to books, the web and everything in between, storytelling allows us to share, organize and process [...]

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Designers behind facebook timeline: 5 keys to creating a UI with soul

Jan
2012
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  Nick Felton and Joey Flynn say that when creating a page to tell someone’s life story, you have to throw out the UI rulebook and study how people recount memories. For most of computing history, interfaces have been about function. Word processing programs help you compose documents. Banking websites help you make transactions. Sites [...]

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Gravity-defying goats

Dec
2011
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  Using moves that would make any rock climber jealous, Alpine ibex cling to a near-vertical rock face of a northern Italian dam in summer 2010. This and other pictures of the goats have been circulating online recently, particularly in emails claiming the animals are bighorn sheep on Wyoming’sBuffalo Bill Dam, the rumor-quashing website Snopes reported in September. [...]

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The 45 most powerful images of 2011

Dec
2011
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Visit site By Matt Stopera for Buzz Feed, 03 Dec 2011.

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The sketchbook of susan kare, the artist who gave computing a human face

Dec
2011
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Point, click. The gestures and metaphors of icon-driven computing feel so natural and effortless to us now, it seems strange to recall navigating in the digital world any other way. Until Apple’s debut of the Macintosh in 1984, however, mostof our interactions with computers looked more like this: How did we get from there to here? Read more By Steve Silberman [...]

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Little big details

Dec
2011
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Get your daily dose of UI inspiration… Visit site  

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For those who have heard Dan talking about social objects for beginners (and those who haven’t)

Nov
2011
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As y’all will know, I’m fond of talking about “Social Objects” and how they pertain to“Marketing 2.0″. Even so, some people still get confused by what a Social Object actually is. So I wrote the following to clarify some more: The Social Object, in a nutshell, is the reason two people are talking to each other, [...]

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Truly amazing: quantum levitation

Oct
2011
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Visit site By the Association of Science-Technology Centers (ASTC)Videos posted on YouTube, 16 Oct 2011.

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The invisible side of design

Oct
2011
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As designers, we tend to get distracted by aesthetics of our designs, and often do not pay enough attention to the other, invisible side of our creations. This talk discusses the value of functionality, storytelling and thorough editorial work in Web. It argues about the significance of purpose, context and quality in our decisions. It [...]

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Steve Jobs wasn’t a god, but let’s give him his due

Oct
2011
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“Humour is the politeness of despair”, an approximate, Google-ish translation of “l’humour est la politesse du désespoir”, a saying attributed to noted post-WW2 Left Bank jazzman, writer, and engineer, Boris Vian, So, let’s start with the reverent, despairing humour of Chris Calloway in Wired magazine’s memorial to Steve Jobs: “Heaven got a major upgrade today…” Yes, I [...]

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