Category: design
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This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links
Here are my favourite links from this week, curated by Fraggl: Redefining handmade, redefining manufacturing, redefining Etsy. A really interesting piece about Etsy's fork in the road, and how it's dealing with the issues that come with scale An unexpected but interesting history of how the ⌘ symbol came about Nicely put from John Willshire – Knowledge…
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This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links
Here's my favourites from this week, curated by Fraggl: Follow the frog (above) is a wonderfully executed ad for The Rainforest Alliance and well worth a watch A new study by researchers at the University of California, Yale, and Facebook has found that moods can spread virally through social media ("If New York City’s rain-induced pathos could affect users in New Mexico, it…
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No Dead Ends
The concept of 'no dead ends' relates to the idea that wherever a user is on your site or your app there is always a next step, or somewhere else appealing or interesting for users to go that they don't have to work hard to find. Links, images and other content that are contextually relevant…
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Redesigning Government
This extraordinary talk by Mike Bracken (Exec Director of Digital in the UK Cabinet Office) at the recent Code For America Summit is rich with insight into transforming digital service delivery and builds on his excellent Strategy is Delivery post that I wrote about here. The interesting thing about GDS in this context I think,…
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Doing a Snowfall
The kind of richly designed multimedia article formats that I wrote about here have become quite the thing. Just check out this already lengthy and ever expanding open list of Snowfall-like features that typically use combinations of infinite and/or parallax scrolling, and text set against large images and cleverly integrated with other formats including audio…
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Beauty and the Business Objective
Tim O Reilly makes an interesting point picking up on Farhad Manjoo's fascinating piece about Google's new cross-company commitment to design under Larry Page, and what that has meant in terms of how it has had to shift gears from utility to beauty. The Manjoo piece is interesting in that it relates how beauty and…
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The Atlas Of True Names
I hadn't seen the Atlas Of True Names before but was rather taken with it when I came across it this morning. Cartographers Stephan Hormes and Silke Peust have created a series of maps that feature the etymological roots (or original meanings) of places and references of countries across the world. The detail above is taken…
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Designing With Constraints
"You know this moment: time is running out, the team is down by one, a player arcs the ball from downtown just as the buzzer sounds—and sinks it. it’s exhilarating. It’s heart breaking. And most of all, it’s good design." Much has been written about how an astute use of constraints can help focus problems and promote…
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Infinite and Parallax Scrolling
Thanks to Rubbishcorp for pointing at this wonderful Oakley site for their new Airbrake MX Google. It's a great piece of merchandising. HTML5 and CSS3 are enabling all kinds of design-rich in-browser experiences using infinite and parallax scrolling (where an illusion of depth is created by background images moving slower than foreground images). One of my…