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It's A Post 11-7 World

By Nick Adams on 11.08.06

A comment by Jeff Croft in this post over at the 37signals blog got my attention. The post was about election coverage graphics and data visualizations and Jeff's comment pointed to the Flash interface at Lawrence Journal World. It was apparently designed for the most part by Nathan Borror. I was really impressed by the fluidity and usability of the interface and thought it was worth mentioning... Read More

In A World Where...

By Nick Adams on 10.26.06

Think the same people who did the motion graphics for the Last Kiss trailer did the motion graphics for the Stranger Than Fiction trailer? Maybe not, but they both seem to have a similar style (i.e. Ugly). Nick: 2, Movie Trailers: 0. High-five? Read More

The Design Element

By Nick Adams on 10.25.06

Man, talk about a big undertaking. This graphic from the New York Times illustrates an attempt to redesign the Periodic Table by Jeff Moran of Woodstock, New York. Moran's redesign addresses the ultimate problem with the existing design: it doesn't scale with the discovery of new elements. The new design attempts to solve this by arranging the elements in a kind of spiral pattern that can g... Read More

Suck On That

By Nick Adams on 10.24.06

A couple of Swiss designers (the blog says German, but the consensus seems to be that they're Swiss) have made some pretty innovative items using everyday objects. They range from genius, to completely ridiculous, but all of them are insanely clever. I love things like this. It just shows how much you can extract from seemingly mundane objects and how the function of something can be total... Read More

Setting The Mood

By Nick Adams on 10.18.06

The design of physical products can really have an impact on how we feel. The size, weight, texture, smell, temperature, etc. are all key in creating mood and dictating the experience surrounding the product. But on the web, the number of senses we have access to is limited. We basically rely on sight, sound, and indirect elements of touch to create mood (and most of the time sound tends to be ... Read More

Building A Better Desktop

By Nick Adams on 10.13.06

This piece of software brought me back to a post I've had peculating for a while now. It's called Overflow, and it's an application launcher for OS X that is kind of a hybrid between the Dock, and Quicksilver. I'm not going to explain it in detail, the best way to see what it's all about is just to watch the video on their site. But what this really got me thinking about, was that there has to ... Read More

The Daily Grind

By Nick Adams on 09.30.06

This clever and well designed wall clock is very cool (even though I would never spend 100 dollars on a freakin' clock). It's funny to realize though, that while working for someone else I remember the hand moving towards the 5 in super slow-motion. But now, while working for myself, the hand approaches the 5 all too quickly. That clock has taken on a very different meaning over the past yea... Read More

They Lost Me At Ripoff

By Nick Adams on 09.26.06

I was checking out CSSMania and came across the site for a new product called Switchboard. This product is a kind of hybrid blog/forum and it actually sounds kind of interesting. Plus it's hosted and it's free, which removes the barrier of entry for a lot of people. (We'll see if they can make a business out of it.) But aside from all that, one thing bothered me about the product. The design... Read More

Less Simple vs Complex

By Nick Adams on 09.18.06

Reading the latest Fireside Chat over at SvN (which has been the most interesting feature on their blog lately) with the brilliant minds of John Maeda and Diego Rodriguez, Matt Linderman summed up a piece of the conversation very intuitively. diego, intelligible vs. mystifying is a nice reframing of simple vs. complex This came after Diego was talking about "simplicity" in the car indu... Read More

I'm Not Saying Anything

By Nick Adams on 09.11.06

Dot A ....... Dot B [via Wired] ....... Connecting Line Accidental symbolism or intentional design? Read More

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