Web without words:

Every week “Web Without Words” takes a popular and known website (example YouTube) and reconstruct it by removing all words and images, replacing them with blocks (what is typical in the “concepting” phase of a design process).

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Coisa mais linda :) Mais de 3.500 objetos do SFMoma, catalogados e exibidos neste formato, para navegar e fuçar. Adorei!

Link: http://www.sfmoma.org/projects/artscope/index.html (via)

Ou simplesmente usabilidade porca? :) Belo exemplo pinçado do blog Uselog, que descobri via microsiervos.

Interface collection for design inspiration (via swissmiss)

Over the past twenty-five years, people have weathered dramatic changes in their experience of time, space, matter, and identity. Individuals cope daily with a multitude of changes in scale and pace—working across several time zones, traveling with relative ease between satellite maps and nanoscale images, and being inundated with information. Adaptability is an ancestral distinction of intelligence, but today’s instant variations in rhythm call for something stronger: elasticity, the product of adaptability plus acceleration. Design and the Elastic Mind explores the reciprocal relationship between science and design in the contemporary world by bringing together design objects and concepts that marry the most advanced scientific research with attentive consideration of human limitations, habits, and aspirations. The exhibition highlights designers’ ability to grasp momentous changes in technology, science, and history—changes that demand or reflect major adjustments in human behavior—and translate them into objects that people can actually understand and use.

Design and the elastic mind exhibition, @ Moma

Origami TV Remote Control, Hayeon Yoo

Olha que coisa mais útil!

http://photonotes.org/cgi-bin/view.pl?letter=! 

A “trail of visual notes” toward her MFA thesis in graphic design – human networks, by Leslie Kwok.

Link: http://nodesandlinks.tumblr.com/

(discover the blog via swissmiss)

FeedDemon added this interesting feature: the panic button. Sometimes I would die for something like that, but I don’t know if I would have the guts to clean all my feeds this way…

Botão do pânico: mas que grande invenção para os leitores de feeds, heim! Porém, pessoalmente, eu não tenho coragem. Eu sempre vejo todos os meus feeds, nem que seja aos poucos. Não tenho coragem de apagar tudo sem ver!

(via Basement.org blog)

Adorei a dica do David, lá do Radinho: Graphical User Interface Timeline

Bungee View is designed to support non-technical users in gaining an understanding of an image collection as a whole, and in finding patterns in their meta-data, while they search and browse.

Motivation

Web search engines have attracted widespread demand for information retrieval from unstructured documents. The number of structured and semi-structured documents available on the Web is also huge, and collections of these are more amenable to data mining. Yet there has been no similar explosion of interest in this kind of exploration. Finding patterns in databases of political contributions, environmental data, or hospital and school performance would surely interest many citizens. The main research question for this project is how to support such exploration for users with little or no training in statistics or programming. In contrast to other data-mining systems, Bungee View focuses on learnability, responsiveness, robustness, and providing a satisfying user experience.

Source: http://cityscape.inf.cs.cmu.edu/bungee/ (via information aesthetics)