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Now’s design, like its usage ambitions, was a culmination of everything that Google had done before. But it evolved in a mature, new direction, so that it looked quite unlike anything else Google had created. […] The primary interface element of Now is what Google calls “cards,” which are modelled after real cards. They present a clean, trim canvas for information—one recalls the discussion of tasteful business-card design in the film “American Psycho.Matt Buchanan, Google Maps, Google Plus, Cards, and the Evolution of the Company’s Design.
Why Design Matters: If Snow Fall Were Published in a Standard Template
I am in beautiful Bergen, Norway, this week for the Nordic Media Festival. I gave a talk this morning on digital storytelling and, of course, everyone wanted to talk about Snow Fall.
As part of the presentation — and to drive home my point about design — I mocked up what Snow Fall might have been had our brilliant design, graphics and video teams not taken this project on.
Since a couple people asked for it, I decided to post the images here.
Doesn’t really grab you like the actual piece, does it?
Point. Game. Match.
Winnipeg firm 5468796 are producing some of the most thought provoking modern architecture designs I’ve see in a very long time. (via “In Winnipeg, pie-shaped homes fill an odd space”)
![…[All] too often, the designers have not applied the principle of the Powers of Ten. I want apps that make my life simpler—not apps that are just simple to use themselves.
—Tim Brown on how Powers of Ten inspires better design thinking](http://24.media.tumblr.com/63ce91da51d44c914ef01e3ea1d6c9cd/tumblr_mliszbK4nK1qz5y8zo1_500.jpg)
…[All] too often, the designers have not applied the principle of the Powers of Ten. I want apps that make my life simpler—not apps that are just simple to use themselves.
—Tim Brown on how Powers of Ten inspires better design thinking
Mission Bicycle Co. and Revolights have teamed up together to make the ultimate Lightcycle. Support them on Kickstarter: http://kck.st/1771jQr
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Should a cellular phone have a dial tone? [Phil Porter] made a radical suggestion that it shouldn’t. A caller should dial a number and then push “send.” That way, the mobile caller would be less rushed; also, the call would be connected for a shorter time, thus putting less strain on the network.Why don’t cell phones have a dialtone? (ht Gizmodo)
“Folding Wheel - prototypes” by Vitamins - This short video shows some of the prototypes we created at Vitamins when trying to understand how to fold a full sized wheel. You can see the final result, which is in production and now in sale as a wheelchair wheel at http://bit.ly/14q8OnMwh
A short video looking at bitcoin, directed, designed and animated by Duncan Elms
What Clients Don’t Know (and Why It’s Your Fault)
Luke Wroblewski’s notes from Mike Monteiro’s An Event Apart talk in Seattle (via Instapaper)
During Videtur’s design phase, all three findings were kept in mind and refined with the most advanced technology available at the time. After the typeface had been precisely drawn in four different sizes, it was photographed with an electronic camera and projected onto the screen.
—I love typography, “Socialist TV Typeface Videtur Finally Freed”
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