+ EverydayUX morsels (October 18th – October 20th)

Fresh Links for You

• First Look: Breaking the print / sign / fax cycle with Zosh for iPhone
  Zosh iPhone app shows good focus tackling a single problem seemingly well - the "print/sign/fax/cycle" from your iPhone.
• Ruckus Roboticus - A Very Daft Punk Christmas (DJ Mix) - SoundCloud
  Great Daft Punk holiday mix. Great jams to zone out and kick ass to.
• Gifts for User Experience Geeks 2009 | Blog | Nick Finck
  Wishlist for the UX nerd. So much good stuff on here.
• typo/graphic posters
  I love typo-based posters but this site also provides a unique navigation approach to browsing visual content.
• YouTube - Hermès × Tokujin Yoshioka
  Hermes interactive window displays. Simple and beautiful.
• subway architecture
  Absolutely stunning collection of beautifully designed subway stations from around the world.
• Go see The Rules of Productivity presentation. Now!
  Nice post on the Cult of Overwork. Still amazed at how many flaunt hours, rather than results, as a badge of honor.
• How Vimeo Did It: Online Community From a Designer’s Perspective | Teehan+Lax
  Great short piece on the implications of designing for community.
• A Collection of Useful Web Design Wireframing Resources : Speckyboy Design Magazine
  Exceptionally robust set of UX + Design tools/resources. Get your bookmark on!
• Playback Graphics | Mark Coleran Visual Designer
  Mark Coleran designs UIs that you see in movies and this site catalogs
  them. I wish there was more background to each of the designs but this is neat nonetheless.
• Web Community Photoshops a Happy Memory [PICS]
  Touching story.
• 10 Brands That Will Disappear In 2010
  If the over under is 5, what do you take? I think I'll take the under (but it won't be pretty).
• digg labs / 365
  One of the best visualization tools I've seen in a while. Beautiful.
• Awesome Visualization of Social Media Usage Around the Globe [Infographic]
  Data! Data! Data!
• Pasta&Vinegar » Blog Archive » Phone-clock mix
  Even though it doesn't even make sense (and it's been over 8 years since I've had a landline) but I want this phone!
• Four Things I’ve Learned About Designers — AIGA | the professional association for design
  Question. Connect. Commit. Care. What more could you want?
• freckle: time tracking rethought
  Absolutely beautiful time tracking web app. I want to use it and I don't even have a need for it.
• Twitter’s Creator Shows Off His New iPhone Project [VIDEO]
  Awesome in-depth demo of (and process behind) how Square works and came to be.
• LogoPond - Identity Inspiration -
  Nice logo aggregation site. Good place to go for some inspiration when you're banging your head against a wall trying to come up with an idea for an identity.
• The Top Ten Essential Interaction Design Books
  Great list.
• Wieden+Kennedy
  Really well done agency site from the folks at W + K.
• Vote With Your Dollars | Company Political Contributions from GoodGuide
  Nice visualization of brands and political donations.
• Envisioning Development: What is Affordable Housing?
  Beautifully executed visualization of income/rent data by NYC neighborhood.
• Information about information
  Nice blog highlighting fresh examples of infoviz porn.
• iPhone Apps Put Brands in Hands
  Nice list of companies rolling some utility into their branded iPhone apps.
• Quote: "I have no desire to scale up or get bigger - (37signals)
  Love this quote from Food Inc. serendipitously posted by 37Signals. Thought about this a *lot* over the past few months.
• Foodspotting: Foursquare meets Food Porn - ReadWriteStart
  I LOVE the idea behind this app.
• iTiVo - http://www.underground-signs.com/#
  This could either be the coolest thing ever or a huge pain in the ass. Time to dig in and find out.
• A New Twist On Navigation Apps
  Really interesting. Taking social + gaming mechanics (a la Foursquare) and applying them to Navigation.
• Is the H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccine Safe? | Information Is Beautiful
  Nice visualization attempting to offer some clarity on a much debated topic.
• Official Google Mobile Blog: The Iterative Web App: A new look for Gmail and Google mobile web apps
  Nice post from the Google team on the little changes they made to make their web apps more usable.
• iPhone App Site Design Trends
  Some really great looking trends in iPhone applications and the sites that promote them.
• Mobile Opportunity: The mobile data apocalypse, and what it means to you
  The (very well-articulated) downside of the explosion of mobile data usage.
• QuirksBlog: Apple is not evil. iPhone developers are stupid.
  Interesting post proposing that developers complaining about Apple's Draconian processes might want to consider building a mobile web app. If not, then stop complaining!
• Killer Apps: Best Branded Mobile Applications - Forbes.com
  See advertisers! It *is* possible to make something branded AND useful at the same time.
• One Vision for Magazine Content on the Apple Tablet - Mac Rumors
  Really neat demo of what WIRED magazine content could be like on a tablet.
• Facebook | Videos Posted by Walmart: Walmart iPhone App [HQ]
  Nice looking app from Walmart. I like the sizing utility a lot.
• Things I learned designing my first iPhone app
  Smart little deck on lessons learned when a designer embarked on his first iPhone project. Some good ones in here.
• Four Key Principles of Mobile User Experience Design - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design
  Nice thorough walk through some important high level concepts to consider when designing for mobile.
• 100 Strangers Project - a set on Flickr
  I absolutely love this project. Always wanted to do something like this myself. Inspiring.
• The Next Twitter: Pay Attention To Hot Potato, A New 'Real-Time' Startup
  I'm into the idea behind Hot Potato but I'm curious about a) getting my friends to sign up and b) balancing use with Twitter.
• Delibar, Delicious Mac client
  Absolutely beautiful Delicious client. Heavy users should definitely check it out.