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Design in the Wild

• 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 […]

• Design, Design in the Wild, Signage, Thoughts

  Design in the Wild: Settle down with the labels, muchacho

  04.01.08 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  This is the door to the men’s bathroom at Mexican Radio in New York City (great restaurant, btw). You know its the men’s room because of that cleverly placed “gentlemen” sticker, right? Were that not there, you may have incorrectly believed this to be a door to a room full of mustaches.
  I thought this was […]

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

  Design in the Wild: Get Satisfaction’s Social Onboarding Process

  03.31.08 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  Get Satisfaction is an awesome site devoted to providing a platform for companies, as well as the people who use their products, to provide (and share) support for their products. It’s a top notch approach to customer service that does a great job at leveraging current technology as well as current social community behavioral trends […]

• Design in the Wild, Thoughts

  Design in the Wild: Air Conditioner Cages and total lack of planning

  03.29.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Note the bars on the inside of the cage, making it impossible to actually put an air conditioner in the cage. As an aside, I was imagining that keeping a wild animal in that cage might make for an exciting local attraction.

  Hope you never need to use the basement hatch for anything.

• Design in the Wild, Social, Thoughts

  Design in the Wild: American Science and Surplus - a folksonomy gone bad

  03.28.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  This is an example of the risk you always run when you let your users run wild without a sense of controlled (or suggested) vocabulary. Here we’ve got lots of what looks like usernames and a bunch of gobbledygook - neither of which is particularly useful to the rest of the community.
  Don’t let that discourage […]

• Data, Design in the Wild, Gold Star, Review, Thoughts

  Design In The Wild: Weather Underground and their personal touch

  03.28.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Weather Underground has been my go-to source for weather on the web for the past 5 years ever since my buddy Gabe introduced me to it. At first the site felt way too information heavy for me but after giving it a chance I’ve grown to love all that data, partly due to the care […]

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

  Design In The Wild: Vineacity - an interesting take on the display of public reputations

  03.19.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  A colleague at work recently pointed me to Newsvine’s concept of “vineacity.” For them, “vineacity” is a quantifiable measure of your behavior on and relationship to, the Newsvine community.
  That behavior boils down to 6 key metrics that get represented as branches on a, you guessed it, vine. These vine icons, concisely denoting varying degrees […]

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  Design In The Wild: Daylight Savings Time Hack

  03.14.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  This is how my friend Sara dealt with the “hassle” of resetting her clock for Daylight Savings Time.

• Data, Design, Design in the Wild, Thoughts

  Design in the Wild: Using real-world data to augment the design

  03.12.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  I wanted to highlight Apple’s subtle way of enhancing their data presentation. The iGoogle themes that change according to the time of day is another great example of this. What can you do to make your design feel more “alive”?
  Also, if you know of other examples, please drop them in the comments. Thanks!