March 2009 Archives

&527/ Watch to Be Inspired (Revisited): Ants, Terrorism, and the Awesome Power of Memes

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Starting the migration: We had this on February 2, 2008.

There have been three talks of Dan Dennett at TED. This is the first one from 2002.

&526/ Essential Slides: Card Sorting

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Efficient and effective. Stephen P. Anderson.

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&525/ Essential Slides: Seductive Interactions

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Approved for all audiences! Stephen P. Anderson.

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&524/ Essential Slides: CSS

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"CSS System is a reusable set of content-oriented markup patterns and associated CSS created to express a site's individual design. It is the end result of a process that emphasizes up-front planning, loose coupling between CSS and markup, pre-empting browser bugs and overall robustness. It also incorporates a shared vocabulary for developers to communicate the intent of the code. This talk elaborates on this concept, and also describes a number of tricks I use to pre-empt maintainability issues."

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&523/ Essential Slides: Web Safe Fonts?

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To hell ;)

All of us senior experts are stuck in a history of tricks/ limitations: SIngle pixel table design. Web safe colors. Web safe fonts. PC Web.

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&522/ Essential Slides: Twitter for Business

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Man.

I thought I was late when I presented Twitter to my students one and a half years ago.

I wasn't.

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&521/ Essential Slides: Open Hardware and Design

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And his latest one. MIT Innovation Lab. View the presentation! | Read the Orange Cone!

&520/ Essential Slides: Sketching Smart

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3rd in a row: Sketching smart things. Mike Kuniavsky. View the presentation! | Read the Orange Cone!

&519/ Essential Slides: Ubiquitous Computing Intersecting With Service Design

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Another black border slide deck by Mike Kuniavsky. View the presentation! | Read the Orange Cone!

An orange cone? Completely unrelated to a red fez ...

&518/ Essential Slides: Shadows and Manifestations

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"When things become connected, their fundamental nature changes. Information is a material from which digital things are made, and such objects exist simultaneously in the physical world and in the world of data. These two qualities profoundly change design."

I like that black frame!

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&517/ Essential Slides: I Love Fonts

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Bram Pitoyo: "Do you know that the world-famous Helvetica was based on a late 19th century typeface model? That Arial is Helvetica's bastard child, commissioned to avoid paying licensing fees? That John Baskerville, whose typeface our founding father, Benjamin Franklin adores, kept a lifelong mistress?

Join me as I take you through the interesting minutiae behind fonts we love, fonts we love to hate, and the men and women who stood behind their design." View the presentation! | Follow Bram Pitoyo!

&516/ Essential Slides: Social Media for You and Your Company

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Mard A. Ross says: "Why? What? Me?" I agree. View the presentation!

&515/ Around the World (Revisited): Ich will zurück nach Zürich

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Ich auch. We had this on October 13, 2008:

I don't get that one. Zurich Tourism promotes a German music video. No Mundart. Sort of Kölsch instead. Maybe zurichtourism on YouTube is a fake. Watch the video!

&514/ The State of the Browser Search Field (Revisited)

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We had this on October 30, 2007, the second field is history at least within Google Chrome: We just came across Seth Godin's post 'Thinking About Domains'.

Seth states: "For a long time, clueless surfers would type a word into the address bar of their browser, figuring it was some sort of magic search engine. Type "gloves" into the address bar of Safari, and yes, it will take you to www.gloves.com. But Firefox and others are wising up and connecting that spot to the search engines. Type 'gloves' into Firefox and you'll automatically go to the number one result on Google. Research shows that the number of people who accidentally end up on these sites is going down."

Our question is: Why are there two different UI elements in the first place, one for the URL - the other for Web Search? Both are text fields with an action button attached: "Go to the address" in one case, "Find this term" in the other.

Combine those two into one element and let the Browser figure out if an address or a search term was entered. As a side benefit the Web Search field could be recycled into a Page Search field, thus making it unnecessary showing an additional search field in the lower left or upper right of the page or even worse in a pop-up upon hitting CTRL/CMD-F.

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&513/ IT for the CEO in a Nutshell (Revisited): What is Cloud Computing?

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We had this on May 8, 2008: What is cloud computing?

Check out what the following people had to say: Tim O'Reilly - Dan Farber - Matt Mullenweg - Jay Cross - Brian Solis - Kevin Marks - Rafe Needleman - Steve Gillmor - Jeremy Tanner - Maggie Fox - Tom McGovern - Sam Lawrence - Stowe Boyd - David Tebbutt - Dave McClure - Chris Carfi - Rod Boothby.

Thanks, Joyent. Watch the video! | Comment at Joyeur! | Comment here!

&512/ Essential Slides (Revisited): Experience is the Product

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We had this on February 1, 2008: Peter Merholz gives a thorough presentation on technology, features, and user experience. His words: "Don't focus on technology and features. Heck, don't focus on the 'product.' Focus on the experience you want to create, and build a system that gets you there." Listen to the presentation!

&511/ Essential Slides: Product, Logo, Brand

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This is a product, this is a logo, this is a brand. View the presentation!

&510/ Essential Slides: The Undercover Technologist

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Straight from Barcamp Singapore 3. Speech recognition & next generation social networks. View the presentation!

&509/ Watch to Be Inspired: A Solution for Her

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Yeah, but. This is the place!

&508/ Sex Sells: Then I Met ...; Every Night and Day

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Free to manipulate ... Watch the video!

&507/ Sex Sells: Chaos. Infinity is Just an Idea.

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Then there was Joanne Colan. Watch the video!

&506/ Sex Sells: First, There was Amanda

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I'm tinking about getting a hybrid. Unboomed within a year :( I'm a young Republican.

Watch the 1 episode I could find!

&505/ Essential Slides: If Only ...

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Graham Brown says: "# If only we looked like this slide from your presentation

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