Trendy Typography
I’m no hardcore type geek. I mean, I love my humanist sans serifs (Syntax, Scala Sans, you make my heart go pitter-patter), but like most designers for web and software, my daily world rarely extends beyond a few universally-installed regulars. But I thoroughly enjoyed Typographica’s Our Favorite Fonts of 2004. It’s a concise summary of [...]
One List to Rule Them All
Last weekend I got coffee with a businessperson who was looking to move into interaction design. Shocking, I know, but also a good sign. He asked for a good resources to get started. In the past I’ve given people an extensive list of books, articles, websites, etc. This time I tried to go simple — [...]
This Many Readers
I loved seeing this in the sidebar of someone’s weblog. Sure, it definitely has elements of a popularity contest, but it also contributes to that sense of mutual awareness that’s so lacking in weblogs. I have a vague sense of readership by going to the trouble of looking at site logs, but the audience can’t [...]
Design at Microsoft
Microsoft just launched a new recruiting site focused on hiring designers of all stripes. It’s well done: informative, looks good, and plays up Microsoft as a company where designers are well-regarded and design is a core part of the product development process. Case studies, interviews, community news – it’s more substative and engaging than any [...]
Character Design
Pictoplasma.
UbiComp Videos
Quite an extensive list of videos that demonstrate ubiquitous computing interfaces – both the crazy stuff from sci-fi movies as well as UX classics like Apple’s Knowledge Navigator and Sun’s Starfire project. The range of concepts is broad enough that they probably should have included the mother of all demos, if only as a tribute. [...]
Unsworn
Elizabeth points to a collection of work and teaching from Erik Sandelin and Magnus Torstensson, two crazy Scandanavian interaction designers. Seeing stuff like this makes me wish we were occasionally a little less pragmatic here in Iron City.
Information Visualization as Artistic Practice
I wasn’t able to take any of Golan Levin’s classes this semester, as I’d originally hoped, but Jesse is. He points out the website for the class, which has a nice listing of information visualization projects. Jesse’s project sounds illuminating in a They Rule sort of way.
Sociable Media Group Weblog
Sociable Thinking is the new weblog from the crew in the Sociable Media Group at the MIT Media Lab. My friend Scott pointed me to it. I worked with Scott as well as Fernanda this summer, and they were gracious enough to let me attend their summer reading group – quite stimulating, so I look [...]
The Hub
Congrats to Molly on her launch of The Hub, which looks to be an excellent weblog and design resource guide! The weblog has some nice coverage of the conference right now, and it looks like Anne, Fabio, and Molly have all been posting to the weblog. There’s also several others who haven’t yet posted, including [...]