BBC Dimensions
Dimensions is a playful prototype created by BERG for the BBC:
Dimensions takes important places, events and things, and overlays them onto a map of where you are. Type in your postcode or a place name to get started.
You can find more background information in BERG’s introductory blog post.
Interactive Sketching Notation
By Jakub Linowski:
The interactive sketching notation is an emerging visual language which affords the representation of interface states and event-based user actions. Through a few simple and standardized rules, what the user sees (drawn in greys and blacks) and does (drawn in red) are unified into a coherent sketching system. This unification of both interface and use, intends to enable designers to tell more powerful stories of interaction.
Sounds interesting, but i would like to see some examples of use. (via)
Master Planner: Fred Brooks Shows How to Design Anything
Wired Magazine interviews Fred Brooks, author of The Mythical Man-Month:
The critical thing about the design process is to identify your scarcest resource. Despite what you may think, that very often is not money. For example, in a NASA moon shot, money is abundant but lightness is scarce; every ounce of weight requires tons of material below. On the design of a beach vacation home, the limitation may be your ocean-front footage. You have to make sure your whole team understands what scarce resource you’re optimizing.
Briefs’ Uncertain Future
Briefs is a brilliant user interface prototyping tool for iPhone. It was meant to be released on the app store, but unfortunately faces an uncertain future at the hands of Apple’s app store policies. That’s why its developer Rob Rhyne kindly decided to release it as an open source project:
With the status unknown and Apple openly opposing the strategy behind Briefs, it has become hard to stay motivated. So instead of trucking along, and growing more resentful of the project, I’ve decided to take a break. And to cool the sting, I’m releasing the 1.0 code base to github today.
It’s a shame how Apple not only deprives UI designers and software developers of a genuinely useful tool that could help them improve the quality of their apps for Apple’s own platform, but also how it obviously saps the passion for his project out of a talented developer.
Inception Infographics
FastCompany recently ran a contest for infographics based on Christopher Nolan’s new movie Inception (loved it btw). I really like the winning entry by Rick Slusher, but i think the runner-up by Adam Martin is almost better.
Put This On
Put This On is a web series about dressing like a grownup. I really enjoyed their latest episode:
Put This On, Episode 3: Work from Put This On on Vimeo.
Arron La shares some interesting revenue numbers for his Android application Advanced Task Manager. Very interesting, he seems to be doing quite alright.
Christopher Nolan Generic
Star Wars Uncut
Star Wars Uncut is a fan reenactment of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. They cut up the movie into 15 second sequences, participants can claim any segment and refilm it however they like, and all the clips are put back together on the website. They’ve just won an Emmy.
In a viral campaign — as in the general movement of ideas and memes around the Net — the audience is also the medium. We are that through which memes move.
I could really use a place where i can collect quotes and citations. They don’t quite seem right to put up here, but i wouldn’t know where else to put them. Something like Delicious, but more specifically geared towards collecting quotes. Anyone know of a service like this?