(via Fab.com | Hanging Houseplants) Great ideas never go away. I inherited something really similar to this form my grandmother, who moved recently, and she’s had them for years.
(via Fab.com | Hanging Houseplants) Great ideas never go away. I inherited something really similar to this form my grandmother, who moved recently, and she’s had them for years.
The people who use the most jargon have the least confidence in their ideas.
– Scott Berkun
Design Thinking Drinks sketchnotes
Here’s a collection of sketchnotes I drew for Sydney Design Thinking Drinks, Wednesday 9 Feb 2011. Penny Hagen spoke about lessons and research insights gleaned about participatory design for her PhD.
Stephen Fry kinetic typography - “Language”
I’m a total nut for typography, so making text whizz around like this, captioning Stephen Fry is brilliant. I’m also a total nut for spelling, grammar, prepositions and all those sorts of things too. Although I agree with his message of not trampling the art of language under the heavy foot of pedantry, I do have to say that language is not just like clothing (as hey says). Language and text is primarily about communication, and communication needs to be clear. I better step down from this soap box while I’m (reasonably) ahead!
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
– Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), via a great bloke with great ideas called Gareth.
New dynamic touch keyboard
A friend of mine’s hard work is now out there: the LiquidKeyboard is a virtual keyboard that lets you use both hands for typing on tablet devices. Christian Sax, and other talented people at UTS have developed this to fit people’s UI need for touch typing on surfaces that don’t normally afford this sort of interface.
How Exxon has funded climate change denial
This website is an interactive mapping research tool to show how Exxon has funded climate change denial through various think tanks and other entities for more than a decade. It was put together by Greenpeace.
As an information visualisation junkie it really appeals to me, but it’s also a very effective way of bypassing media spin and getting to the facts, and seeing the relationships between who is saying what and the money involved.
