June 2009

Housing & Poverty

by Ryan Lane on June 30, 2009

Housing & Poverty, originally uploaded by densitydesign.

Lovely Diagram. Do take a look at the others in the flickr timeline. The quality of the design work is gorgeous.

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Religious Teachings on Sex Infographic

by Ryan Lane on June 30, 2009

Religious Teachings on Sex Infographic

Originally uploaded by pseudoplacebo

Nicely done simple infographic on the topics of religions and sex. This is why I’m agnostic.

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I could watch this forever

by Ryan Lane on June 25, 2009

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links for 2009-06-24

by Ryan Lane on June 24, 2009

Detect user connection speed – WebDeveloper.com

There's some interesting php code on this forum that creates a dynamic image to show connection speed. I'm working a solution to have a page work best based on a users speed.

(tags: php speedtest)

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Has technology made the crappy tasks better, or even enjoyable?

June 22, 2009

I find that I can’t clean my own home without my ipod or something playing from iTunes. It’s not always music either, I’m listing to podcasts, audiobooks and downloadable versions of radio shows. Because the technology has made is so easy, I’m consuming more media more often. Most of all I’m consuming it at times [...]

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Schematic Touchwall

June 17, 2009

Touchwall Demo from Joel on Vimeo. It seems a little large if you ask me, otherwise I love the concept. Schematic has been making some amazing progress in the multitouch arena. They are still eons behind the work that Stimulant is doing. They really should just merge in to one company Schemulant

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links for 2009-06-17

June 17, 2009

InfoQ: Reminder: You are Not Your User (tags: design development usability) Usability testing – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (tags: articles usertesting usability ia webdesign ui ux hci usabilitytesting) Usability Testing with 5 Users (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox) (tags: design usability ui research interface ux Nielsen article usabilitytesting)

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UX Titles

June 17, 2009

This tweet from Jeffrey Zeldman really sparked my thinking about this issue. UX Titles have always been a discussion topic at IA Summits and other UX conferences. I myself have had a laundry list of titles from Information Architect, Digital Strategist, Experience Designer, and even Creative Director. My personal favorite is User Experience Designer, even [...]

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