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Design in the Wild

• Design, Design in the Wild, Gadgets, Mobile, Thoughts

  Coming soon to a SkyMall catalogue near you: The Handphone

  05.16.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  This is a great example of people taking a design/idea way too far. I can’t really add much more than what WIRED posits:
  The handphone takes this madness a step further. Why have one simple, easy to use unit which can simply be held to the head when you can strap a mess of wires onto […]

• Design in the Wild, Gold Star, Interface, Mobile, Thoughts

  Design in the wild: IntelliScreen - finally, some idle screen customization for the iPhone

  05.14.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Over at ModMyiPhone there’s a post about new software called IntelliScreen that allows you to load widgets onto your iPhone’s idle screen. While I’ve made it this far without jailbreaking my phone (and I can certainly make it another month), this brings to light a need that has until now gone suspiciously unmet in my […]

• Design in the Wild

  Design in the Wild: Take off your own darn tab!

  05.12.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  I received my new health insurance card and it came with a little tab along the side with instructions to remove (and discard) said tab. As far as I can tell, there’s no reason that this tab had to make the trip with my card. I know I’m being nitpicky here but it just seems […]

• Design in the Wild, Locative, Signage, Thoughts

  Design in the Wild: User-updated map kiosk in Figueres, Spain

  05.07.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  I’m finally starting to get caught up after our trip to Barcelona last week. As a little teaser of the photos to come, I wanted to post this photo of a map kiosk I saw in center of Figueres, Spain when we went to check out the Dali Museum (Quick review: Really neat, totally […]

• Design, Design in the Wild, Gold Star, Product, Thoughts

  Design in the Wild: Finally, a blister pack that won’t slice open an artery!

  05.06.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  I can’t tell you how many stupid injuries I’ve sustained by the traditional Fort-Knoxian approach to blister packs. Nice to finally see an elegant solution to that problem. Just pull on the little tab that says “Pull” and your labeler is released from its confines. Easy peasy.
  And yes, that is a brand new, Brother P […]

• Design in the Wild, Signage

  Design In The Wild: Preparing Austin for SXSW

  04.25.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  This is one from our time at SXSW that I never posted. Prior to being overwhelmed by a mob of drunk nerds, the folks in Austin saran wrap all of the lightposts, etc. downtown that people might feel compelled to post flyers/advertise on.
  While it looks strange at first (almost like these are new gift […]

• Design, Design in the Wild, Mobile

  Design in the wild: AdMob’s AdMonitor

  04.21.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  The AdMob AdMonitor provides this a really neat Google Maps mashup showing how their mobile ad inventory is being served up in real time - geographically, on which handsets and on which carriers.
  For something as relatively nebulous as mobile advertising still is for most, this kind of dynamic visualization of information is an excellent […]

• Design, Design in the Wild, Gold Star, Product

  Design in the wild: Oxford Landing wine tab

  04.15.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Dennis sent me this great post by Ben Terrett, a graphic designer in London points out a great little packaging innovation by Oxford Landing wines: a simple tear-off tab with their brand and style of wine so that you can easily remember what wine it was you had should you want to buy it again. […]

• Customer Service, Design in the Wild, Gold Star

  Design in the wild: Twitter’s “Share Your Story”

  04.14.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Last week a new link appeared in the sidebar on my Twitter profile page that read “Share your story.” It looked like this:

  The wording was such that I was intrigued to see what kind of story they were looking for, so I clicked and came here:

  A simple web form asking for simple information but […]

• Customer Service, Design, Design in the Wild, Gold Star, Interface, Social, Thoughts

  Design in the Wild: Beautiful Barcodes

  04.05.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Leave it to the Japanese to take something as mundane as the barcode and make an artform out of it.
  Update: Check out this post filled with awesome barcodes that safoocat sent me via Flickr.
  This reminded me of those super cool Japanese manhole covers from a while back:

  These are great examples of how anything (even […]