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Designing for Visual Efficiency

Jason — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:40:17 +0000

Ryan Coleman gives a brief but inspiring presentation about the process of how we see and how that knowledge allows us to create designs that are more visually efficient. This is a nice introduction to a field every information designer should look into.

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This talk is a much shorter version of the very useful presentation:

Designing for Visual Efficiency (FITC09)

View more presentations from Ryan Coleman Design & Consulting | Freelance Information Designer & Facilitator.

WordPress

Jason — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 03:47:45 +0000

Not that I’m a crazy blogger or anything, but I was finding the blogger system to be rather annoying. As such, I have decided to move my blog over to a wordpress installation. Let’s see how this works!

Little Red Riding Hood – animated infographic style

Jason — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:51:00 +0000

Slagsmålsklubben

Source: flowingdata.com

Microsoft’s Vision of 2019

Jason — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 17:07:00 +0000

Microsoft Re-Designs the IPod Packaging

Jason — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:27:00 +0000

Bad Design

Jason — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:05:00 +0000

Two good websites that talk about bad design:

Bad Human Factors Design: http://www.baddesigns.com/

Interface Hall of Shame: http://homepage.mac.com/bradster/iarchitect/shame.htm

Dissolution of Social Networks

Jason — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 22:15:00 +0000

Andreas Kluth (San Francisco correspondent for The Economist) talking about real and virtual campfires, and predicts the dissolution of standalone social networks (such as FaceBook and MySpace) as we know them.

Anyone interested in the next generation of internet technology really needs to listen to this podcast. Its clear, concise and really gets at the heart of many social graph issues and human behavior.

Free FLV (Flash Video) Player

Jason — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 17:57:00 +0000

Flash Video is by far the best way to deliver video on the web. Every online video sharing site (YouTube, Google Video, etc) use flash video. For smaller websites, flash video supports on-demand streaming without a video streaming server.
The problem previously was that all flash video players previously were commercial offerings (or required that you purchase Adobe Flash Pro).

Luckily a dutch guy – Jeroen Wijering – has now created an Open Source alternative. From his website:

The player allows you to show your videos more controlled and to a broader audience than with Quicktime, Windows Media or Real Media. It supports playback of a single Flash video file, RTMP streams or RSS, XSPF and ATOM playlists (with advertisement possibilities), a wide range of flashvars (settings) for tweaking both behavior and appearance and an extensive, documented javascript/actionscript API

Check it out here!

OpenSource real-time trip-routing

Jason — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 17:03:00 +0000

Hi All:

For any of you that have played with the real-time trip-routing in Google Maps, there is now an OpenSource version available.

A demonstration is available here: http://boston.freemap.in/routing.html

This system utilizes the following parts:

UMN MapServer for WMS based map image generation;
TileCache for tiled WMS generation and caching;
PostGIS for data storage;
pgRouting for postGIS based route finding;
OpenLayers for the javascript based map viewer

The demonstration is a little bit clunky compared to Google’s (probably all because of server speed), but shows the power of what OpenSource can do!

Meat Hair

Jason — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 17:36:00 +0000

Yikes! What artists will do… Meat-hair-art. Yes, the artist is German.