Congrats to the entire North Temple team: The poster designed to promote last year’s First Annual Design Review is featured in this month’s HOW In-House Design Annual. (Also, kudos to those of you who own a limited edition print of this poster.)
House Industries redesigned.
A prototype iPhone case for blind users. “The silicon[e] case has debossed, tactile logos, icons and characters, yet is still thin enough for the screen to register touches. Used in conjunction with text-to-speech features, it opens up a world of possibilities for those without sight.”
“20. Client wants the best. Once you tell him what the best costs, he asks if you can scale back. You craft a scaled-back proposal, but, without disclosing a budget or even hinting at what might be viable for him, the client asks if you can scale it down further. After you’ve put 40 hours into back-and-forth negotiation, client asks if you can’t design just the home page in Photoshop.”Jeffrey Zeldman, 20 signs you don’t want that web design project. If only these weren’t so familiar…
Numbered Type’s Seeing Eye Calendar.
“Forvo is the place where you’ll find words pronounced in their original languages. Ever wondered how a word is pronounced? Ask for that word or name, and another user will pronounce it for you. You can also help others recording your pronunciations in your own language.” What a great idea. Via JSM.
Impressive work from iLK, which is comprised of “two very cool guys, Ludovic Prigent and his cat, Pitou.”
Golden Ratio Calculator (Dashboard widget). Sample calculations: 24 columns = 15/9. 960px = 593/367.
A rather unique layout for a signup form.
Obsessions Make My Life Worse and My Work Better, an 8-day project by Sagmeister Inc., involved more than 100 volunteers and 250,000 euro cents (€2,500). Within 20 hours, the police called in a cleaning company and swept away the temporary installation.
Commands, a series of 3 digital prints by Christopher David Ryan.
“A ‘perfectionist’ and a ‘purist’ are not the same person. The perfectionist seeks to do everything to the best of their ability against standards that are often set higher than average. The purist, on the other hand, seeks to adhere to some set of rules that are written for conditions in a world wherein Tom Cruise is taller and a lot less creepy, and every morning the box of Trix is full and fresh without all those lame crumb particles at the bottom of the box.”Greg Storey recounting an incident between (perfectionist) Dan Cederholm and a (purist) follower of Dan
Some candid shots from yesterday’s brainstorming meeting for upcoming lds.org improvements. Notice Gilbert’s head conveniently positioned away from me in both shots. A dramatically improved experience for General Conference (in an Asian langage, can’t remember which) sits on the screen in the second shot.
Apple : “We have decided to drop the non-disclosure agreement (NDA) for released iPhone software…. [T]he NDA has created too much of a burden on developers, authors and others interested in helping further the iPhone’s success, so we are dropping it for released software…. Please note that unreleased software and features will remain under NDA until they are released.”
Microsoft and Nokia are adopting jQuery as part of their official application development platform. “This means that jQuery will be distributed with Visual Studio (which will include jQuery intellisense, snippets, examples, and documentation).... This [also] means that jQuery will be distributed on all Nokia phones that include the [WebKit-based] web run-time.”
The Back of the Napkin by Dan Roam argues that visual thinking is one of the most effective ways to “tackle tough business problems.” (Video ‘C’ on the home page is particularly interesting.)
Avast! Keep yer office maties from stealin’ grub with Anti-Theft Lunch Bag.
“For love is divine, and then most divine when it loves according to needs and not according to merits.”George MacDonald, Unspoken Sermons