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Simple Designs: Designing Coffee
Sometimes we get lured into the perspective that design is some complicated arcane art. The reality is often that good design is simple, informative and clear. I recently saw these two nice ...
My mail is evolving.
Anymails is an interesting email visualization work by Carolin Horn: Anymails is a visualization of my received emails. I have investigated how I can use natural metaphors to visualize my inbox, ...
Clusterball: A new view of Wikipedia
Chris Harrison designed an illuminating visualization of three levels within Wikipedia and their interconnections. His design starts with one large circle, the center of which holds the parent topic. Secondary ...
Thirty Tools for Web Enabled Research (or webwares of scientific method)
The first thing I should points out is that this listing is about tools for doing research through the web, NOT about doing research about the web (although you can surely use ...
Additional notes on Recycled Canvas
I just wanted to write some additional notes to anyone downloading the theme to try out. It is customizable, and the view you see when you install it isn't the only option. The ...
The Recycled Canvas Theme is now available! (v0.9)
If you are interested in becoming an experimenter, just download the theme+plugin and go ahead and get in touch with us. We'll give you access to our code repository and bug tracking ...
What is the school of tomorrow?
If past lessons teach us anything, it probably is pretty hard to imagine. Still, there are reasonable efforts to create a dialogue about what it might look like. From School 2.0. School ...
Be kind to the web, please recycle your research.
As we near the target deadline for releasing our prototype recycled research project, it makes sense to talk a little bit about what we mean. Here is an overview of the project, ...
[graph-watch] Digg on the thin blue line
Stamen design has some fascinating graph visualizations of Digg but one in particular stands out: Stripping out every story except that one, we can start to focus in on some interesting ...
[graph-watch] New Intersections
Some nice graphs seen around the interweb lately. 1) The loveocracy, from creating passionate users showing what's good for users is what's good for business. 2) Also from ...
[Design -> Demonstrate] Make a kite and let Ben fly it.
Paper prototyping gets a look over at A List Apart. Obviously we think paper prototyping is pretty important. Shawn Medero discusses paper prototyping screens for design and user testing. Particular ...
Many eyes on Swivel
We've mentioned Swivel and Many eyes in passing on this blog, but both of them deserve some further scrutiny. Sharing has become a big part of the web experience. When ...
Yahoo’s Pipe-dream.
Pipes are fascinating. It's no coincidence that our favorite video game legend is a plumber or that the internet is actually a collection of tubes. Pipes are all about connections. Taking something ...
Visualizing Visualization
A wonderful visual representation of, well, visualization methods. From visual-literacy.org, a table of the elements is slightly misleading. More accurate words would be techniques, methods, or even maybe visual languages or ...
Fun with Graphs
It's nice to remember that graphs don't have to be all serious. The venerable pie chart, a staple of useless business meetings everywhere can also serve as a comical source of enlightenment.