1,117 posts tagged interface design

Cycling 74’s Max/MSP/Jitter forum is a not just a resource for Max/MSP nerds doing Max/MSP nerditry, but an archive of new media art, ideas, algorithms, discussions and general mayhem. One gem caught my eye during a recent discussion: a YouTube video performance using nato+0.55.

Acrylic | Times - “Times is a new type of newsreader for Mac OS X Leopard.” Beautiful. Could do with more customisation options, but it’s already very nice. [via:Jason Ellis] cityofsound: The Personal Well-Tempered Environment - “Essentially, the idea is for a system that makes previously invisible aspects of people’s behaviour visible, in order to help change individual and collective behaviour.

I have an a blog post in draft I’ve been putting off four about a month now that asks the question “what’s wrong with the new BBC Homepage?” The premis being that I like so why doesn’t everyone else. Well - now it seems that at least two television companies DO like - in fact they like it enough to have taken the design wholesale and recreated on their own sites.

Making the transition from traditional media to new media is a difficult task. Old-school content providers are faced with this challenge amid a shifting industry. Newspapers are moving online. Cable TV networks and movie studios are doing the same. Many have attempted a successful transition, but few have succeeded.

For a recent project, we analyzed strategies used by sites that thrive on user engagement to encourage people to sign up and get established. We presented our findings, including design and usage guidelines, in this visually-rich report.

If you're among the social media initiated, chances are you are Googling yourself more than once a day. In fact, you probably have Google alerts set up with your own name to notify you (and your ego) whenever anyone mentions you. It's ok, you can admit it.

Predictions on the exciting future of Video Game Design Filed Under (2637) by admin on 16-05-2008 Video game making has come a long way since the days of programmers spending hundreds of hours writing long lines of code.

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No point rewriting this post on RWW, this is cool though. Watch the vid. Shame there are not plans to "productize" now, but the cost sounds low and the interface intuitive (and obeying the conventions developing around multi-touch). It's also worth looking at the Touch blog now and then.

Luke Wroblewski - Content Page Design Best Practices   One of the talks at the IA Summit was by Luke Wroblewski, author of two books and various resources published on his site. If you can see/hear the presentation at this location, I would urge you to do so.