Things I've tagged “design” (38 things)
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Old vs new packaging, on the same shelf (Monday August 2, 2010)
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This is interesting to me.
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New Last.fm track page (Tuesday April 13, 2010)
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A good example of the track page changes we made recently, I worked pretty heavily on this. Main changes;
* External play links (eg, play this on hypem)
* Preview track (inline 30s preview playback with SM2)
* Pretty scrobbles/listeners stats
* Listeners over time graph
* My interaction with this track (number of plays, love)
* Who's listening now and with what client -
Stumptown coffee business card (Monday February 22, 2010)
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Panasonic Lumix GF1 Field Test — 16 Days in the Himalayas (Tuesday February 16, 2010)
Beautiful typography and page design. Love the thick underlined headings
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Helvetica cookie cutters. (Wednesday February 10, 2010)
A combination of typography and baking?!
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Temporal User Interfaces (Saturday February 6, 2010)
Interesting thoughts of presenting temporal data, how to gently impart age within a UI. I'd love to see the aged OSX folders in practice.
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Decode: Digital Design Sensations | at the V&A (Monday January 18, 2010)
Running 8th December - 11th April, with late night Fridays: "showcases the latest developments in digital and interactive design. from small, screen-based, graphics to large-scale interactive installations"
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Designing the Unthinkable: Observatory (Sunday January 17, 2010)
The design story behind the Doomsday Clock. Originally published as a background image for "The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists". Iconic design.
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Space invader tea towel (Tuesday October 27, 2009)
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Made with lino printing
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The postcode lookup pattern (Thursday October 15, 2009)
Nice looking write up of address lookup/post code pattern for front-end design/development.
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Iconfinder (Thursday September 3, 2009)
A huge selection of icons, available in different sizes, formats and mostly under free licenses. Pretty sweet.
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Norman Foster sweeps Heathrow to the height of airport architecture (Monday August 17, 2009)
With the new Terminal 2 building set for soaring success, Jonathan Glancey celebrates dashing designs of the jet age
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Inactivity bear dialogue (Wednesday July 29, 2009)
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Pops up if you're listening to Last.fm web radio for a long time without interacting with the page.
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Vic, the Inactivity Bear (Tuesday July 28, 2009)
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Last.fm web-radio shows you a bear if you've been idle for a long time, to check you're still listening.
I wrote some place holder copy about bear-attacks and the idea stuck. The bear (Vic) has since received a lot of hate, and a bit of love, on the forums.
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Almost Pure CSS button-style links (Tuesday July 21, 2009)
Using some nifty CSS 3 tricks (including box shadow, text shadow, rgba transparency and a single transparent PNG to make very attractive button links.
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Tumblr error message (Monday July 20, 2009)
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Considering how slick the rest of the Tumblr interface is this error feedback is awful.
Not only that, but you only get told what the limitations for the field are once once you submit. You don't get an example or expectation set.
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WordPress › Thematic « Free WordPress Themes (Sunday July 5, 2009)
A really simple clean WP theme
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69 Love Songs, Illustrated. (Friday July 3, 2009)
A project to illustrate each of the songs on 69 Love Songs by the Magnetic Fields. Amazing.
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CSS - String Truncation with Ellipsis (Wednesday July 1, 2009)
Interesting technique. I didn't realise there was a CSS3 spec for this and that it's already supported by all recent versions of IE. Requires a big hack to work in Firefox, more effort than it's worth in my opinion.
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subways at scale (Wednesday May 6, 2009)
subway systems of the world, presented on the same scale
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50 great examples of infographics (Wednesday April 22, 2009)
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10 Cool Things We’ll Be Able To Do Once IE6 Is Dead (Friday April 17, 2009)
With MS pushing IE8 harder, and the rise of non-IE browsers, the number if IE6 users is starting to approach a point where you can seriously consider dropping support for it. Once you do a number of, previously progressive enhancement only, tools can be used without fear. hot.
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BT account creation form (Saturday January 3, 2009)
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Painful, on so many levels.
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Camera Freakout (Saturday September 13, 2008)
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Camera Freakout (Saturday September 13, 2008)
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Wrong tab (Wednesday June 18, 2008)
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Don't make stupid assumptions.
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One AM Radio artwork (Monday January 7, 2008)
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Night Falls (Monday January 7, 2008)
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Tape and case (Monday January 7, 2008)
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Tape, case and wallpaper (Monday January 7, 2008)
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Cassette (Monday January 7, 2008)
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Side B (Monday January 7, 2008)
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Side A (Monday January 7, 2008)
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Unwrapped (Monday January 7, 2008)
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Bound with elastic bands (Monday January 7, 2008)
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Giving XFN more visibility through CSS2.1 Attribute Selectors (Wednesday September 12, 2007)
As I was redesigning a bit lately and making use of FamFamFam’s very nice Silk icon set (used under...
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Pixel Art Space Invaders (Wednesday April 25, 2007)
Note: We actually did this a few months ago now – But I lost the ‘making of’ pictures and only found...
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ALA “Ruining User Experience” (Tuesday March 27, 2007)
Out of the three new ALA articles the one that really caught my eye was Ruining User Experience by...



















