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EverydayUX morsels (March 6th – March 7th)

by Alex Rainert on March 7, 2010 · 0 comments

OO – High Definition Wireless Projector | Design You Trust
Stunning industrial design. Beautiful demo video.
ManageMyLife.com – Home Improvement Projects, Owner’s Manuals & Home Management Tools
Interesting DIY/project sharing community brought to you by Sears. Nice to see big old brands come with something new.
15 Amazing Interactive Installations – Noupe
Some pretty amazing, inspirational stuff in here.
saying no is a powerful service to offer clients / what consumes me, bud caddell
GREAT post. Amazing how hard it is for some agencies to say no to anything, even when everyone in the room knows it's the right thing to do.
The UX Canon: Essential Reading for the User Experience Designer
Comprehensive reading list for the upstart UX Designer.
Choosing pagination tap zones – Instapaper Blog
DO sweat the small stuff.
Apple Getting Serious About Near Field Communication on the iPhone – Patently Apple
Love to imagine the possibilities of context + proximity-aware devices.
Chris Harrison – Skinput
Awesome demo of UI projected on your skin. Rad.

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Gap runs contest for iPhone app developers – Mobile Marketer – Software and technology
Gap takes an interesting approach to getting an iPhone app built. The answer? Have others build it!
The Google Wave Highlight Reel | Smarterware
Finally, a place to get a more concrete sense of what Google Wave actually is.
Nick’s User Experience Tools | Blog | Nick Finck | UX/IA Pro, Speaker, and Community Cultivator.
Great list of tools for any UX designer. I really want to give Silverback a try.
iPhone Augmented Reality | Open The Future | Fast Company
Nice primer on some of the things made possible by the new compass in the iPhone 3Gs.
YouTube – Samsung WB1000 Unboxing
Clever Samsung viral video promoting their new digicam. Shame that it peters out at the end and there isn't a clear call to action letting you know where to find out the details of the device.
Gizmodo – The iPhone User Interface Stencil Kit – Iphone stencil kit
This was too beautiful to pass up. I had to order one.
The 30 Most Important Books for Product Designers | Design & Innovation | Fast Company
An amazing list that you all should bookmark, read through and add a few to your Amazon cart.

by Alex Rainert on March 4, 2009 · 0 comments

Sony: The Problem With Sony, In a Picture
Ha.
Logic+Emotion: Skittles Goes Modernista! With A Distributed Experience
Nice look at Skittles redesign as an evolution of what Modernista did a while back.
arc90 lab : experiments : Readability
Clever customizable bookmarklet that allows you to strip out all the noise around the content you're trying to read.
Palm Pre Still Not Ready for Launch, Says Sprint CEO – Palm and Sprint plan to launch it when there will be enough units available – Softpedia
Sounds like we might have to wait a bit longer for the Pre.
Tofu-Chili Taco With Kimchi – The New Los Angeles Fusion – NYTimes.com
Food cart + Korean food + tacos + location updates via Twitter? What more could I ask for? That it was in New York rather than LA.