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  • Microsoft Surges After Sales, Profit Beat Estimates

    Woo Hoo!! I’ll probably regret being enthused, but what the hell! “This is a big deal,” said Jane Snorek, a Minneapolis- based analyst at First American Funds, which manages $55 billion in assets, including Microsoft shares. “It...
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  • 110+ Resources For Creative Minds

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  • Paul Rand

    Grumpy old curmudgeon, aka design god (Monoscope) Some great Paul Rand quotes. “Don’t try and be original, just try to be good”. “To do things with quality. I think this is what in a big sense aesthetics means”. “Order...
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  • Data visualization

    Here’s a beautiful set of mathematical visualizations from the Center for Mathematical Modeling.  (from Visual Complexity) Read More...
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  • Expression around the Clock

    On the 4th of October Microsoft held a worldwide, design-focused event  called Expression Around the Clock. Partially it was an opportunity to expose people from the design community to the Expression suite of tools. More importantly it was the beginning...
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  • ECSCW 2007

    I’ve just spent the week in Limerick, in Ireland, at the European conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work. It’s quite an intimate event, with just a few hundred attendees and one track (so everyone listens to every piece of work...
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  • Some SenseCam press

    Great article in MIT’s Technology Review on the SenseCam, particularly focusing on the potential benefits for dementia sufferers… “When Mrs. B was admitted to the hospital in March 2002, her doctors diagnosed limbic encephalitis, a brain...
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  • Humans love a good interface

    I really like the idea of this machine. It’s just full of buttons, knobs, dials, levers, gauges, wires and things that people love to push, turn and mess with.   “To create an interaction/ device that explores peoples’ natural instinct...
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  • Visualizing stories

    Jonathan Harris spent 9 days with the Inupiat Eskimos in Alaska, documenting their way of life, and their Spring tradition of whale hunting. He methodically took a photo every 5 minutes, even going as far as to use a chronometer to keep his camera going...
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  • NonObjects

    Some thoughts about prototyping, particularly the creation of product fictions using visualization tools, rapid prototyping and the internet to disseminate ideas. “At a site called Idealist, designers upload images of fictional products that they...
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  • Getting the most out of ancient software

    Who said you have to have all the high-tech toys to be creative. More often then not it’s better not to. A little constraint can go a long way… “Staake once told me that he still draws with a mouse and an ancient copy of Adobe Photoshop...
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  • Done by hand

    There’s something really compelling about producing something with as much technology behind it as a web site, but executing it in a way that is amazingly low tech. I’m not sure it’s necessarily a sign of modesty in the producer, but...
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  • Visualization overview

    Feeling like a cross between a Tufte lecture and a flick through any recent book on Processing or Flash masters, this article presents a good overview of the job and direction of ancient and modern data visualization. “In his introductory text Read...
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  • Braun vs. Apple - a little respect

    I have no problem with this article drawing some close comparisons between the work of Dieter Rams and the work of Jonathan Ive at Apple. It’s not blatant plagiarism, and the calculator in the iPhone already demonstrated that the respect was there...
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  • Ask E.T.: Interface design and the iPhone

    Edward Tufte has posted a video that extols and criticises the iPhone UI design. He’s clearly a fan, and having played with the device I can understand why. I thought his critique on the Stock widget was particularly interesting, though, calling...
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