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Amazon Windowshop
“We’ve taken out the text and created an immersive experience to help you lose yourself in exploration. Trailers for bestselling movies. Insight into the hottest TV shows and video games. Track samples from Tuesday’s new music releases. Audio reviews of books you should [...]
From the monthly archives:
September 2008
When the business model doesn’t match the user experience or… when nobody seems to understand what the business model is, the designer can’t know if they are helping or hurting the company by creating a better experience for the user.
Jared Spool, Why Understanding Business Models is Important to Ix Designers
I recently posted a quote from Steve Ballmer discussing a key difference between Apple and Microsoft, which I titled A Complete Experience. Having spent a bit more time thinking about it, I thought I would capture some of those thoughts here. This is basically a brain-dump, so it is by no means comprehensive, or for [...]
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Everymoment Now : Obama Vs. McCain : Context and Scope to the 2008 US General Election
Everymoment Now. Exploring news histories and bringing context and scope to the moments shaping our world.
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Tags: politics, presedential politics, information visualization, charts, elections, [...]
In the competition between PCs and Macs, we outsell Apple 30-to-1. But there is no doubt that Apple is thriving. Why? Because they are good at providing an experience that is narrow but complete, while our commitment to choice often comes with some compromises to the end-to-end experience.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer
The quote is from [...]
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Black Box Voting – America’s Elections Watchdog Group
We want citizens out in the field observing, asking questions, asserting the right to know. We know it will help to have a booklet you can put in your purse or jacket pocket, to remind you of [...]
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Google Chrome
A comic book introducing the new open source browser, Chrome, Google’s foray into the browser space.
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Tags: web design, web development, browsers, chrome, google chrome
75 Powerful Adobe Fireworks Extensions
“Anyway here are below the best 75 Adobe Fireworks Extensions [...]
Google plans to release a new browser soon, based on Webkit, but with a new JavaScript engine, which is expected to be significantly faster than most browsers and will be sandboxed to ensure that a crash in one tab doesn’t take out the rest of the browser.
In addition to the blog post, they’ve created [...]
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DryIcons.com
Free icons and free icon sets, as well as free vector graphics.
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Tags: web design, icons
jeresig’s sizzle
A new selector engine that is expected to become the default engine in jQuery.
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Tags: web development, javascript, [...]