Quote for the day

Design is Thinking Made Visual - Saul Bass

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IDE For developers…

It seems about half the people in our group are developers of some sort, and knowing that our tools vary from the ancient but flexible VIM editor to the jazziest tools in Visual Studio and CS, I figured Zeleznik’s programming in “bubbles” wouldn’t be straying too far for most of us.

YouTube video of Bubble UI.
(sorry, don’t know how to embed videos)

If this interests you, and you’re even remotely into math, you should check out Zeleznik’s Hands-On Math UI (http://www.cs.brown.edu/people/acb/cv.html)

Richard Saul Wurman on Design

On asking good questions… looking for new modalities… not trying to fix things that are broken… and how understanding should precede action. Leaving me wondering about evolution versus revolution… and the Steven Wright joke that if you have enough time, everything is within walking distance… and the extent to which frustration (and a dash of arrogance) downgrades the effect of a message.

Source: Core77.com

John Cleese on Creativity

Cartoon for the day

Source: Boagworld

SVA Dot Dot Dot Lectures: Jason Santa Maria

SVA Dot Dot Dot Lectures: Jason Santa Maria from MFA Interaction Design on Vimeo.

The Yahoo! Style Guide

Coming July 6th to a bookstore near you. Learn how to write and edit for a global audience through best practices from Yahoo! Attract more readers; give them the gold-standard editorial experience on your site. “The Yahoo! Style Guide” shows you how. Read more.

Silverlight Design Contest

I don’t find the prize all that motivating, but here’s the recently announced Ball Watch Contest.

10 Design Principles ~ Dieter Rams

Good design is innovative.
Good design makes a product useful.
Good design is aesthetic.
Good design helps us to understand a product.
Good design is unobtrusive.
Good design is honest.
Good design is durable.
Good design is consequent to the last detail.
Good design is concerned with the environment.
Good design is as little design as possible.

Source: DesignApplause

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