January 31, 2005
fotologue.jp
Excellent collection of Japanese fotologs.
Check out the site.
Posted by richard ting at January 31, 2005, 08:09 PM
UKTSC_THE SUIT COMPANY
The Suit Company from Japan has managed to create a unique product catalog interface that allows users to search through it's vast collection of 496 items. It's a great exploratory interface and truly experimental for an e-commerce site, but the hunt and peck method of finding a product is a major no-no for the usability nerds out there.
Posted by richard ting at January 31, 2005, 07:30 PM
January 29, 2005
Darius Ramazani Photography
Photographer Darius Ramazani's photography portfolio site features a cool dynamic .pdf function that allows users to 'collect' images as they browse his site. When the users are done 'collecting' images, they can easily print of the .pdf of his resume and 'collected' portfolio images.
Posted by richard ting at January 29, 2005, 06:47 PM
Interface Hall of Shame
Three weeks ago I posted the Graphical User Interface Gallery Guidebook. Here's a complement to that site, the Interface Hall of Shame which is also an excellent resource for what NOT to do when designing usable interfaces and systems.
Posted by richard ting at January 29, 2005, 06:34 PM
January 27, 2005
poplockin'
Ok fine, so there's no novelty in doing a project that incorporates rotoscoped video embedded into flash. That was hot back in 2001. And yeah, using your keyboard to control an avatar on the screen 'a la Dance Dance Revolution has been done a few thousand times by design pros and design hacks. And yeah, the topic of breaking and poppin and locking has been re-appropriated another gazillion times, BUT I couldn't resist and I just had to post this site. Easy to use and fun were the main driving forces for it's posting. Give it a try and you'll realize that for what it lacks in novel cool-ness, it makes up for in silly, stupid fun.
Posted by richard ting at January 27, 2005, 12:45 AM
January 24, 2005
Escape Lab Travel Album
This is one of my favorite travel photo albums out there. The interface is easy to use as users can flip between 3D mode, 2D mode, and a plain flat interface. While the site at first seemed to be another overly complex data visualization project, it actually turned out to be a nice, simple, and clean interface. Interesting photos as well.
Posted by richard ting at January 24, 2005, 10:23 AM
January 19, 2005
NFL Game Broadcasts Coming to IPods
[more podcasting news from Apple]
NEW YORK - Starting next week, football fans will have a new way to listen to games: on their iPods. The National Football League on Tuesday announced an agreement with Audible Inc., an online distributor of audiobooks and other spoken-word programming, to make recordings of this year's remaining playoff games available for portable audio players, including Apple Computer Inc.'s iPod.
The recordings will be available for purchase through Apple's iTunes Music Store, which has an existing relationship with Audible, and other sites that sell audio over the Internet, according to the NFL and Audible.
Posted by richard ting at January 19, 2005, 12:43 PM
January 18, 2005
Location-based Flickr - Mappr!
They guys from Stamen Design have created Mappr! which is a location-based Flickr!. Mappr! pulls photos from flickr.com and maps them onto a map. All mapping is somewhat approximate as the Stamen folks are using the metadata from each photo to make educated guesses about the location of where each photo was taken. The project is still in beta phase and a bit clunky, but its a cool idea nonetheless.
Posted by richard ting at January 18, 2005, 12:57 PM
January 17, 2005
Interesting 3D Tool
Here's a nice tool called the SketchUp to quickly and easily translate your ideas into 3D images. If you're interested in visual sketching, or if you're just curious about 3D modeling tools, then check them out.
Posted by richard ting at January 17, 2005, 11:11 AM
January 14, 2005
Toshiba Japan Music Map
An extremely well designed site created by Toshiba that highlights the FM Festival '04 in Japan. The Japan Music Map utilizes some nice interaction design to quickly display information and lots of information in a visually pleasing way.
Posted by richard ting at January 14, 2005, 11:53 AM
January 09, 2005
Graphical User Interface Gallery Guidebook
This is an absolutely fantastic resource site for interface designers. It's basically a guidebook, a website dedicated to preserving and showcasing Graphical User Interfaces.
Posted by richard ting at January 09, 2005, 07:53 PM
The Galleria_Seoul_Interaction
[from archinect.com]
We've seen screens of LEDs on facades before, but nowhere in the world we've seen the media wrapping around the volume, forming a skin to the building, fluid and dynamic. At the Galleria Fashion Mall in Seoul, it does. What is a sophisticated frosted glass facade having a mother-of-pearl effect during the day, transforms into a vibrant and scenic experience at night. 5,000 glass disks each having their own individual RGB luminaire, together make up an ocean of colours and movements.
The effect of the Galleria lighting design goes much beyond a fancy colour projection. People stop in the street, take pictures, interact with the facade, video it, all of them are amazed. Nothing reminds them of the dull, blind, concrete facade that Galleria was until recently. The design's subtle colour changes and abstract images perfectly fit the contemporary image of the building. The Galleria Fashion Mall is back in town.
Posted by richard ting at January 09, 2005, 07:44 PM
January 08, 2005
Our Type. Fine Typography from Europe
This a nice little fun flash app designed by the Our Type folks in Belgium. It allows users to sample and try different font types directly from the site.
Posted by richard ting at January 08, 2005, 04:29 PM
January 07, 2005
The Secret Behind the iPod's Scrollwheel
Here's an interesting article about the design reasoning behind iPod's scroll wheel.
Posted by richard ting at January 07, 2005, 01:42 PM
January 06, 2005
Massive Change by Bruce Mau
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With the publication of Massive Change, Bruce Mau and IWB launched their own future-forward design philosophy. The appropriately named Massive Change project, of which the book is a fragment, includes a traveling exhibit, an evolving website, a radio program, and a slew of other components. The book itself is a compendium of insight from some of today's leading sages on sustainability. Binding ideas to their economic lives, individual chapters on urbanization, movement, energy, information, image, market, material, military, manufacturing, living, wealth, and politics tackle the question of not what we do but how we do it.
