Category: Interaction Design
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URLs without ‘www’
Recently a trend has started to represent website URLs without the preceding ‘www’ sub-domain, short for ‘world wide wed’ and indicative of a web page. For example this site can be found both at www.isuseful.com and isuseful.com, but by default when I talk about the site address I drop the ‘www’. Personally I find the…
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"To Clarify, Add Detail" – Edward Tufte’s Review of the iPhone
Edward Tufte, information design master, has released an insightful and educational video review of the iPhone on his website. It’s a large movie shot in clear, Apple style black background with Tufte talking through his observations as he goes. Delivered in calm, soothing tones are such wonderful phrases such as “To clarify, add detail” and…
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First iPhone Experience
Yesterday I got my first chance to play with Apple’s new iPhone at their 5th Avenue Store. First impressions, it’s cute, feels great in the hand, has many genius ideas but some annoying niggles still came up even in a short time. The first thing that strikes you is the quality and clarity of the…
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Hide In Plain Sight
Glasgow has decided to take on illegal fly-posting in a new way. Instead of scrapping off the posters from every inch of space they take up, a time consuming and messy process, they are simply sticking ‘cancelled’ notices of their own over gig posters! Then the venue owners have to deal with hordes of irate…
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Bright Lights, Quiet City (or Sun vs. Moon)
This morning’s Globe and Mail had an article about how Toronto police are using bright spotlights on rowdy club goers to help encourage them to go home, in much the same way as clubs themselves at the end of the night. The lights have been placed to cover key corners at which crowds normally gather,…