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Launch! (Remodeling Dynamic Diagrams)
Late on Friday afternoon last week we relaunched DynamicDiagrams.com and this blog. The new site is more scalable than the old and incorporates more ways to present our work. Information Design Watch...
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Name That Type
Not likely to be a game show anytime soon, but still fun for design geeks: It’s Type War! (Via commenter tmarthal on the Arial vs. Helvetica post.) Nice UI as well.
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Small Uniform Multiples
The Baseball Hall of Fame’s Uniform Database offers an elegant showcase of the power of small multiples. Here is a simple example: The database output, by year or team, shows the remarkable variety in...
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The Key to the Masthead
It may not work for every web site, but it does for Flip Flop Fly Ball. I’m talking about a site masthead with more iconography than a pre-renaissance painting. The key to the masthead is a nice...
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The Organizational Context for Web Development
Why is it, asks Jonathan Kahn, that the user experiences that web teams envision and that organizations truly want to adopt often fail to meet expectations? Here’s the problem: organizations are the...
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How a Bill Becomes a Column
There are a lot of bills in Congress. IBM Research Labs has created a new way to find them. IBM Many Bills is a search engine that presents U.S. Congressional legislation in strongly visual format....
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Follow the Money
Even on mobile devices a web app can beat out a platform-specific app. That’s the case for The Financial Times (FT). FT spokesman Rob Grimshaw reports that their HTML 5 web app draws more readers for...
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Theremins, Slot Machines, and Wheels of Destiny: Flexing the UI Design Muscle
When building a web site or application, the wireframes usually represent the first time functionality and content requirements take visual form. Creating wireframes is both exciting and daunting, much...
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The New and Improved Google Reader! Slightly Dingy and Now with Dark Patterns!
I use Facebook, but was not one of those people who grumbled about the latest changes. I accept that technology is about looking forward, convergence makes sense in many cases, and that improving the...
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HTML Sunrise
Paul Irish AND Divya Manian have teamed up to create a superb visual explanation that shows browser support for HTML5 and CSS3. Rolling over each spoke of the sunrise (to mix a metaphor) reveals the...
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