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I am a User Experience Designer at foursquare.

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i do like these images

August 4th, 2009 at 6:15 pm 0 comments.

i like these from here. I really really like. ♥

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everything is full of radiation

August 4th, 2009 at 4:53 pm 0 comments.

We have contaminated the atmosphere with trace amounts of radioactivity with detonations of atom bombs starting in 1945 and that contamination risks our ability to build sensors to detect this same, small amount of radiation.

All steel made since the detonation of the first atom bomb in 1945 has contained tiny amounts of radioactivity. This is because the atmosphere now contains trace amounts of radioactivity. The steelmaking process involves the use of large amounts of air, which transfers the radioactivity to the steel. Instruments and equipment used for measuring radioactivity must be free from extra background radiation, so post-1945 “new” steel cannot be used for these purposes. Instead, pre-1945 “clean” steel is used.

Salvaging WWII German U-Boats that were scuttled at Scapa Flow

tags:radiation steel

nice looking icons

July 31st, 2009 at 8:16 pm 0 comments.

Nice werk, ikons and pictograms from ikonwerk

tags:design icon pictograms simple

Proportion wheel

July 28th, 2009 at 6:24 pm 0 comments.

I had the need to use one of these today. Unfortunately any of the online versions don’t have the satisfaction inherent in using one of these analog computers.

Help! I need help.

July 24th, 2009 at 9:47 am 0 comments.

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Help Remedies has released their new products, which they briefly previewed to the PSFK NY conference this spring. Help continues on it’s goal to simplify everyday health needs, with clear, well designed, no nonsense packaging. It is refreshing to see medicine described thusly:

Each package of “help I have a headache” contains 16 oblong pills. Each oblong pill contains 500mgs acetaminophen. We use acetaminophen because it’s an excellent treatment for headaches and it’s delicate on stomachs. We use as large a dose of acetaminophen as we can, and the fewest possible fillers, coatings, and dyes.

We haven’t used “extra strength” to describe our headache pills even though they do have lots of acetaminophen. That’s because if everybody always used “extra strength” to describe headache pills then “extra strength,” wouldn’t really mean anything anymore. And we don’t want the things that we say to mean nothing.

tags:design health help

discovery in the city via mariolife and street art

July 24th, 2009 at 8:52 am 0 comments.

Walking home the other day I decided to play Mariolife, a real life GPS game on my iPhone. Playing in this case, is walking around in the real world gathering up virtual coins and mushrooms and rescuing princesses. In my quest to gather up coins I found myself walking on streets I had never walked, at least with any kind of noticing, and running into bits of street art I had not yet seen as well. My real life adventure was being guided by the placement of coins that existed only on the screen of my iPhone. So in spending a couple of hours wandering around collecting virtual coins and real street art (in photos) I realized that there was something really special about the collision of very different real world expereinces that was happening here.

Mariolife on iTunes

tags:games geocaching gps iPhone street art

birds

July 23rd, 2009 at 5:59 pm 0 comments.

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Floral Fauna: Bird Edition by Josh Brill. Prints of 15 different birds in editions of 50. Absolutely beautiful.

tags:art birds nature

Volkswagen Golf 1974-2009

July 23rd, 2009 at 11:04 am 1 comment.

Image by Phil Kiel

Nice comparison showing the increasing size of a ‘compact car’ found over at Kitsune Noir as part of the desktop wallpaper project.

tags:auto

reso-net

July 21st, 2009 at 6:00 pm 0 comments.

Designed by: Mark Francis Tynan, William Hailiang Chen, and Shireen Hamdan

ResoNet employs Low-Fi techniques to visualise the resonance frequencies inherent in the natural environment, via the interaction of the public and surrounding elements detected by a LED net.