New customized pixelated Waving Cat icon
W00t: I just got this awesome custom waving cat icon. Melbourne-based multimedia designer and pixel artist Louise K of Agmyst Studio was so kind to create this image for me. Thanks, thanks & thanks, Louise!
Eventually, after years with a simple photo of a maneki neko I have at home, this blog now has it’s own, […]
Aurora shows future user experience for the web (which rocks)
Aurora is Adaptive Path’s take on a possible future user experience for the Web. As you can see in the video below, it rocks.
Aurora (Part 1) from Adaptive Path on Vimeo.
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Twitter plus Flash as a simple CMS
Patrick, one of the awesome flashers here at Panorama3000, has coded this neat flash website for an actor friend of his. Usually I’m not a huge fan of flash sites for all the well-known issues around flash (no direct links, lousy accessibility etc). What I like about this one, though, is its smart implementation of […]
Relaunch: Slowly getting there
Slowly, but steadily, I’m getting to the point where my website looks acceptable again. To be fair, that’s only partly my achievement: The design is to a huge part based on on Boris Anthony’s theme for Joi Ito. (Of course Boris and Joi are referenced in my blog’s footer, and I’ll keep trying to get […]
Alaska Airlines rethinks check-in, saves millions (and a lot of time)
Alaska Airlines saves millions by rethinking check-in flow: A great example of how companies can greatly improve their services & structure by simply rethinking the way they run things.
Summarizes the (must-read!) 37signals blog:
The airline studied theme parks, hospitals, and retailers to see how they handled similar situations. Then, the team built mock-ups in a […]
Working on a relaunch
As I’m looking into a bit of an optic overhaul for this blog, the site might look somewhat odd occasionally over the next few days.
Also, if you get too much traffic through my RSS feed, please just ignore it - chances are my site hasn’t been hacked by spammers but I just ran into […]
Avoid Clichés: Destroy The Web 2.0 Look
What happens if an aesthetic gets over-used? It becomes a cliché. (That’s bad.) This is what happened to rounded corners, reflecting logos, diagonal stripes, also known as: The Web 2.0 look.
Elliot Jay Stocks gives good advice: Destroy the Web 2.0 look - and thereby avoid clichés.
Here’s how, and why:
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Less bad product designs with redesignme.org
Redesignme (Flash, HTML) is a good implementation of a simple, but powerful idea: Users submit really bad product designs, then propose what could be done better and how.
That’s it.
But that’s pretty cool, too. After all, it’s the users who know about the bad usability and all the problems. It’s a pain to use? Chances […]