May 2013
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Scoops and Software: How The New York Times Tells... →
journo-geekery:
Embedded in the heart of the New York Times, Aron Pilhofer runs an experimental news team made up of veteran journalists and top-notch computer scientists. Their job is to tell stories using software, data, and old-fashioned journalistic skills. Here’s how they do it.
In case you’re curious about my team and colleagues. (I’m currently not paying attention to our team’s...
There’s this myth that designers aspire to be artists. No — designers aspire to...
– Paola Antonelli, MoMA’s Senior Curator of Architecture and Design, echoes Bruno Munari at a recent TED salon titled “Design Is Everywhere.”
Antonelli’s most recent book, Talk to Me: Design and the Communication between People and Objects, based on her MoMA exhibition of the same name, is...
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Script Junkie | HTML5 Datalists: What They Are... →
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Autocompletion is a pattern that all Web users are familiar with. When you do a search, your search engine suggests terms. When you type a new e-mail message, your mail client suggest recipients. This functionality, however, has not been available to Web developers without a nontrivial amount of JavaScript. One of the new HTML5 elements, the , brings this autocomplete...
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Peaceful sunset over Long Island sound
April 2013
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Fonts are wayfinding apps for emotions
– by @jontangerine (via his talk “Billboards & Novels”)
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A shorthand for designing UI flows by Ryan of... →
“Flows are made out of individual interactions. A screen offers some possibilities and the user chooses one. Then something happens, and the screen changes. It’s an ongoing conversation. Each moment in a flow is like a coin with two sides. The screen is showing something on one side, and the user is reacting on the other side. My flow diagrams illustrate this two-sided nature with a bar....
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It's not a web app. It's an app you install from... →
Tips on disguising a web app as a native app :
Avoid replicating the default OS styling and interactions
If you aim for a fully custom, native app look and feel, you’ll be more likely to succeed
Only animate properties that are GPU accelerated
Don’t try to implement custom scrolling
Design you interface around the technology you have, not the technology you wish you had
Use...
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March 2013
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the soundscape of a great bike ride (@rapha)
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I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient...
– Dr. Seuss (via ikenbot)
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