January 2008
The Archives
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Gadgets, Locative, Mobile
Garmin throws their hat in the mobile ring
Garmin surprised many yesterday with an announcement that they are going to be releasing a mobile phone based on their successful Nuvi GPS platform. First off, let me say that the hardware specs seems pretty excellent:
It has a proprietary Garmin OS, HSDPA, Quad-band GSM, WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, and a 3.5” touchscreen.
The software seems to be […] -
Links
Links from January 30th
Objectives in User Interface Design
“Below are the major objectives in constructing a UI: consistency, usability, navigation, visual appeal, interoperability, performance, and accessibility.”
Wordpress launches Prologue
Interesting Twitter-esque Wordpress theme for small, collaborative groups. It isn’t immediately clear how this would be useful to me right now, but I think its worth keeping an eye on.
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Gold Star, Interface
Saving items to read later done as simply as humanly possible
And it works beautifully.
Reasons why this is a great application:
1. 1 step registration process
2. 1 feature - a bookmarklet you drag to your toolbar and click to save links you want to read later
3. 1 page that aggregates all those saved links for you to check out when you have the time
That’s it.
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Design, Gold Star
Even emergency equipment can look great
This fire extinguisher design, by Woo Seok Park, is just stunning. Truth be told, I’m a huge sucker for this Bjorkian design aesthetic. I like this so much I wish I could give it a permanent place on this homepage.
Here’s how it works:
To reduce the required handling of the fire extinguisher, the user needs […] -
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Links from January 28th
Digital Stream of Consciousness In NYT Building on PSFK
Really neat sounding installation. Anyone checked it out?
Even after this breakdown of Expression Engine, I’m still a bit unclear -
Customer Service, Gold Star
Good Experience’s lightweight way to get to know their customers
Mark Hurst of the Good Experience mailing list (great blog and list, btw) sends this great follow-up email when you sign up for the list. It’s great because even though its only two quick questions, they’re ones that a) will provide great value to him and b) are the sorts of things that people can […]
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Process
Is there such a thing as an “Un-Agency”?
Here’s a great post by David Armano on how agencies now find themselves in a position to have to evolve with the times or risk missing the bus. Having worked at a handful of agencies of different sizes and specialties, during varying economic times over the years, a lot of issues David raises sound very […]
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Process
Breakdown of UX Disciplines
Considering some people are still trying to sort this out, I think Challis Hodge’s take on it from way back in 2001 was pretty forward-looking.
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