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Itching a scratch with Python, del.icio.us and 3×5 index cards
Once again I found myself at a bookstore, so overwhelmed with choice I forgot what I was looking for. Never again. With some help from effbot, ReportLab and my trusty Python, I whipped up this, what-to-read.py.
In a nutshell, this little script grabs up to 15 items recently tagged “readinglist” from my del.icio.us account, applies some [...]
The MAYA Design Experience
MAYA Design knows immersive design. This time, they collaborated with the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design on a long-distance academic project to design a national park.
“In keeping with the theme of the course, the students unveiled their final recommendations by staging an immersive experience. They filled a large, round room with process sketches, [...]
AIGA + Stefan Sagmeister
AIGA conference procedings are available; many huge PDFs, audio & video files, and interesting little sketches I guess you had to be there for to really get. Some of my favorites: Ellen Lupton’s Typophilia: Love, Death and Typography” PDF (33mb) and Stefan Sagmeister’s “Design and Happiness” PDF (253mb) or MP3 (36mb). (Even more Sagmeister: Hillmancurtis has [...]
Computational Information Design
“The ability to collect, store, and manage data is increasing quickly, but our ability to understand it remains constant. In an attempt to gain better understanding of data, fields such as information visualization, data mining and graphic design are employed, each solving an isolated part of the specific problem, but failing in a broader sense: [...]
Designing for the User Experience
“Then it went into a great case study about redesigning a library system. It was one of those ones where you sit and think “I want that job…”. The slides from this are going to be available at www.marcrettig.com/uxweek and when they’re up there later today I storngly recommend you go and have a look [...]
An idea for the iPhone and GPS