james cooke blog
The design “funnel”
Design as “a cycle of elaboration and reduction”:
- Elaboration phase (solid line) : “to generate as many different ideas as possible”.
- Reduction phase (dotted line) : “to select one of those ideas and carefully refine it”.
via therecognitioneffect:
Concerning Fidelity in Design | UX Booth
Read this. Then show it to your account & project managers. This is an opportunity to not just own part of the design, but the design process.
Hanging at Protein Forum number 6 with Mark and Paul. We’ve been working with Paul on the NIKE78 site.
The Times’ and Sunday Times’ share of UK newspaper web visits nearly halved in the month since bringing up the paywall. Full analysis on Paid Content and Hitwise.
These images are all from major online retailers, not fly-by-night sites. You’re not imagining anything; all of the shopping cart images look terrible! Conversely, all of the shopping bag images look pretty swell. Perhaps it’s easier to manipulate 200 pixels into the shape of a bag than a cart, huh?
There are also studies of arrows, print logos and more - cool site!
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This live tube train map is just phenomenal. It shows the position of trains across the whole tube network, relative to each station, and updates live as they move through the tunnels. The yellow pins are stations, and the red ones are trains.
Fun how some trains will go on random “off line” missions!
Plus where’s the overground?!
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Interesting how Rolling Stone attempted to build up hype, but the full McChrystal story was still published in full online before publication in print.
From Michael Calderone writing about Rolling Stone and McChrystal on Yahoo! News. More on how the story broke on Media Guardian.
EnviroSecurity Action Guide search
Text search with filters
Refinements shown with result counts
Special lists of results available
Last week we put the new search functions of the EnviroSecurity Action Guide live. The system is build on Solr running on Tomcat on Windows and has some great features - screengrabs above.
and via We Are Social
I’ll probably break most of this out in my meeting later!
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