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Design, Design in the Wild, Gold Star
Design in the Wild: The Cadillac of Sippy Tops
02.25.08 | Permalink |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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Gold Star, Interface, Mobile
Socialthing’s launching some great looking updates at SXSW
02.23.08 | Permalink |…and I’ll be there to give them a test run. Amongst other things, it looks like they might launch some of the features that will let you update various sites from their unified interface:
As well as a great looking iphone interface:
The most exciting piece of news to me is the sneak peak at a slick [...]
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Design, Gold Star, Thoughts
As amazing a bookshelf as I’ve ever seen
02.21.08 | Permalink |Incredibly clever way to turn limited storage space into a highly functional (and whimsical) bookshelf.
The staircase is both the way to access the bedroom and a perfect place to store books, movies or CDs. “With a skylight above lighting the staircase, it becomes the perfect place to stop and browse a tome,” says Levitate’s Tim [...] -
Customer Service, Gold Star, Process, Social, Thoughts
Web 2.0 and the developer dialogue (+ invites to Socialthing beta)
02.18.08 | Permalink |Not long after my post about Socialthing, I got a comment from one of the developers:
Alex, you’re very right that more will come out of it. Subscribing to all of your friends’ RSS feeds can be completely overwhelming. A service like ours allows a user to see everything on all of their networks without being [...] -
Gold Star, Resource, Social, Thoughts
Excellent community for innovation in User Experience Design
02.13.08 | Permalink |A huge thanks to Lisa E. for sending this site my way. Konigi.com presents Digg-like visual way to browse best-of-breed UX design broken down into five main categories: function, interface, design, notebook (general UX commentary and blog posts) and overall (all categories).
Clicking on an example takes you to a clean detail page that breaks down [...] -
Gold Star, Interface
Saving items to read later done as simply as humanly possible
01.30.08 | Permalink |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
01.29.08 | Permalink |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 [...] -
Customer Service, Gold Star
Good Experience’s lightweight way to get to know their customers
01.27.08 | Permalink |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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