Youtube Find: Postal Service vs Zelda
I forget what these are called. I find it funny, and brillant.
Helpfull page layout technique
I can rember reading this when it first came out. It was a helpful, tip ten and now.
- List all the things a screen should do. What should the customer be able to accomplish? What information are you sure should be displayed? Which affordances are necessary for customers to start a process or reach a goal? Label these things with numbers.
- Look for any numbered items that relate to each other, conceptually or spatially. Label these groups of numbers with a letter.
- Sketch a design (or multiple designs) for each number or letter group.
- Combine the individually sketched blocks into a unified design. Let the pieces fall together into a whole.
via 37signals
Thinking About Future Tools
Pictures like this remind me about the need to dream about future tools. Sometimes we need to dream up our tools before we have the technology.
Protovis
This has been a long time comming. Screw IE, this is too cool to pass up
Protovis is a visualization toolkit for JavaScript usingthe canvaselement. It takes a graphical approach to data visualization, composingcustom views of data with simple graphical primitiveslike bars and dots.These primitives are called marks, and each mark encodes data visuallythrough dynamic properties such as color and position.
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