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Information Design Patterns: visualization of data examples including charts, table design, tips and state transitions...
Yahoo! Buzz Overtakes Digg in April: Buzz got nearly 7 million U.S. unique visitors in April, a 74% growth over March. What's more, about 51% of Yahoo! Buzz users are women...
How To Avoid Foolish Consistency: A foolish consistency is one that serves no benefit for the end user. Making things look and work the same is pointless if the user can no longer accomplish their tasks. Rank making things useful above making them consistent....
April 2008
Eleven lessons: managing design in eleven global brands: How do leading companies manage design in their businesses? Our in-depth study of the design processes used in eleven global brands gives real insights into the way design operates in these firms, and delivers usable lessons for all designers and managers...
The Institute For The Future: The Institute for the Future (IFTF) is an independent, nonprofit research group with nearly 40 years of forecasting experience...
Starbucks' Retro Logo: How Starbucks is using a special brown logo to evoke the chain's beginnings and restore some goodwill for the brand...
Urgency is poisonous: In the software industry urgency is self-imposed and morale-busting. If stress is a weed, urgency is the seed. Don’t plant it if you can help it....
Apple's design process: Interesting presentation at SXSW from Michael Lopp, senior engineering manager at Apple, who tried to assess how Apple can ‘get’ design when so many other companies try and fail....
Web Page Hierarchy: the way people naturally scan Web pages and how you can guide users through key content and actions using visual hierarchy...
Starbucks seeks to re-energize sales: Starbucks is introducing a new automated espresso machine and getting back to grinding beans in its stores as the coffee retailer seeks to re-energize its slumping business....
Is User-Generated Content Out?: Web 3.0 is taking what we've built in Web 2.0—the wisdom of the crowds—and putting an editorial layer on it....
Tap Project: pay for water at restaurants, money donated to provide drinking water to kids...
An interview with investor Paul Graham of Y Combinator: Paul Graham believes we’re not in a bubble, that startups shouldn’t worry about their business models and the best companies are the ones with potential to kill old monopolies....
searchmash: neat search engine, nice set of features...
Is India Bad for Jaguar?: India Inc. up in arms over perceived slights to its ability to run two of the world's most prestigious brands....
December 2007
protagonize: community-driven interactive fiction: Nick Bouton's web project: Protagonize.com is an online community dedicated to the (nearly) lost art of the addventure, a type of collaborative fiction. People can write stories, add to other people's stories and keep track of stories they like....
Beware of Facebook's Beacon?: The new Facebook advertising system, codenamed Beacon, represents an innovative approach to online marketing, but it also marks an additional step in the ongoing erosion of consumer privacy....
Jonathan Ive to be Apple's next CEO?: The designer has come a long way — from a technophobe at a British polytechnic to being mooted as the US giant’s next CEO...
Facebook Is Too Close for Comfort: Facebook's been opening up lately, but some users think it's becoming a little too open. A new ad initiative revealed transaction data to Facebook friends, causing a furor among users. Now the site says it's sorry. But is it sorry enough?...