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Data, Design in the Wild, Gold Star, Review, Thoughts
Design In The Wild: Weather Underground and their personal touch
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 [...]
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Customer Service, Design in the Wild, Gold Star, Social, Thoughts
Design In The Wild: Vineacity - an interesting take on the display of public reputations
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
This is how my friend Sara dealt with the “hassle” of resetting her clock for Daylight Savings Time.
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Data, Design, Design in the Wild, Thoughts
Design in the Wild: Using real-world data to augment the design
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”?
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Design in the Wild, Thoughts
Design in the Wild: Nokia’s “birth control” phone
I got to see one of these while I was up at Nokia this week. Back at ITP I remember being so envious of the quality of photos these odd-looking little devices devices would take. I really love this as a design artifact because of the way its a total design mashup of past and [...]
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Design in the Wild: Apple’s Home Screen - icons like little organisms
Everything about how Apple chose to introduce Home Screen customization (and teach people how to use it) really captured what Apple gets and so many people completely miss.
Clear instructions, followed by the icons going from dormant to “wiggly” is just an excellent example of a well-executed, playful user experience.
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Design, Design in the Wild, Gold Star
Design in the Wild: The Cadillac of Sippy Tops
The best top to a To Go coffee cup I’ve ever encountered was found at the awesome Grey Dog’s Coffee. No longer are you faced with a “no turning back” approach to opening your coffee. Instead you can open and close your coffee at will should you come across a bumpy patch on your way [...]
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Design, Design in the Wild, Interface, Locative, Signage, Thoughts
Design In The Wild: Cancun airport - good for maps, bad for books
On our way back from Tulum, Karen and I got delayed at the Cancun airport for about four and a half hours. This resulted in having the “opportunity” to eat our first ever meal at Bubba Gump’s, as well as learn the layout of the airport backwards and forwards.
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Design in the Wild, Signage, Thoughts
Design in the Wild: Cloverfield and Relative sickness
I like the way they convey the potential sickness in a relative way (”similar to riding a rollercoaster”), rather then just saying “Some people may experience dizziness, nausea, etc.”
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Design in the Wild
Design in the Wild photos kickoff: Can your Brand be No Brand?
Now that I’ve gotten almost caught up with everything, I’m going to start addressing the photo portion of this site a bit more. To recap, my hope is to find examples of good/bad design, products, signage, etc. in the wild and post them here. Some will have more commentary than others and some will probably [...]
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