Archive for July, 2009

XHTML 1/HTML 5/XHTML 2 – what does it all mean?

All the different acronyms and versions can get confusing. Here’s a nice cartoon that explains what XHTML is and how it relates to HTML 5, etc.:
Warning educational and fun!
Thanks to Smashing Magazine for this one.

Posted by Daniel Naumann on July 30th, 2009 under Technical (kind of...) Tags: , , ,  •  Comments Off

Designing type with a car

I can’t say I’ve ever thought of using a small car to design a font. Actually I’ve never thought about designing a font at all, but luckily for us, Pierre Smeets and Damien Aresta have. They teamed up with Toyota (using their new iQ car) and drove the car around to create the lines that [...]

Posted by Daniel Naumann on July 29th, 2009 under Visual Design Tags: , , , ,  •  Comments Off

Awesome projection on building

You see some cool projection projects, but this one is absolutely stunning:http://vimeo.com/5595869 Seriously, just watch it, I promise you’ll be amazed.
It’s pretty much just an art piece, but I’m sure there would be some interesting applications (unfortunately probably for commercial organisations to have animated logos or something equally annoying).
Thanks to James Mansfield (via twitter) for [...]

Posted by Daniel Naumann on July 29th, 2009 under Visual Design Tags: , , ,  •  Comments Off

UX Podcasts

A while ago I asked several people which podcasts they listen to. I checked out the suggestions and found a few myself. Here’s a list of what I found:
Adaptive Path: Not bad, but a little dull. I’ve only managed to listen to a handful of these because other ones are more interesting. The [...]

Posted by Daniel Naumann on July 29th, 2009 under General Design Tags: , , , , , , , , ,  •  Comments Off

Infographic commercial

The infosthetics blog sums it up nicely: The beautifully made infographic animated movie “It’s Time for Real / Eat Local, Eat Real” highlights the increasing tendency of food importation, and how this phenomenon influences the economy, the environment and our neighbourhoods. The message is mainly meant for Canadians, but certainly applies universally.
Courtesy of the [...]

Posted by Daniel Naumann on July 29th, 2009 under Infographics Tags: , , , , ,  •  Comments Off

Surfboard design

Surfing and Design working together. Does it get any more beautiful? No, it doesn’t, that was a rhetorical question.
Thomas Meyerhoffer has been busy designing a new surfboard shape, and it’s pretty crazy.
Thomas has designed for Apple and Porsche, so he’s got some skill. It’s interesting to see him apply this to surfboard design, which hasn’t [...]

Posted by Daniel Naumann on July 28th, 2009 under General Design Tags: , ,  •  Comments Off

Firefox – it’s the little things

There is a lot of things to like about Firefox, but with a recent upgrade to 3.5 yesterday, I’ve noticed a nice little change. Firefox asks you if you’d like to save a username/password when logging in to sites – this is nothing special as all browsers do that. But they’ve changed the message now [...]

Posted by Daniel Naumann on July 28th, 2009 under Interaction Design Tags: , , ,  •  Comments Off

Welcome to the Michael Jackson Special Edition

If you’re like me you’re probably getting a little sick of MJ’s songs (I like his stuff, but days of nothing else is wearing thin…). But bare with me a little longer and check out the wonderful NY Times vis-graph of his music.
It has a nice timeline of his songs and where they placed in [...]

Posted by Daniel Naumann on July 28th, 2009 under Infographics Tags: , , ,  •  Comments Off

How Gen Y Consume Media – A Personal Account

A report from Morgan Stanley on Gen Y usage of digital media  (PDF)
The report is actually written by an intern/work experience guy  who is Gen Y themselves. The report is about their personal usage and that of their friends. Morgan Stanley freely admit it’s not statistically significant, but thought it was interesting so decided [...]

Posted by Daniel Naumann on July 28th, 2009 under Report/Research Tags: , ,  •  Comments Off

An Intro

There are a lot of great UX blogs, etc. out there that already showcase some very interesting news, articles ad examples.  Mostly I’ll act as your filter and post the better ones here.  From time to time I’ll add my own comments and findings as well.  So sit back and let the UX goodness commence.

Posted by Daniel Naumann on July 14th, 2009 under Uncategorized  •  Comments Off