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vveather is by sean salmon. vveather is interesting. vveather is changing. vveather is the same.
I am a User Experience Designer at foursquare.
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User Name Check
December 22nd, 2008 at 2:36 pm 0 comments.
A brief survey view of my usual identity, seanaes, across several sites. Please don’t be a username-squatter. kThx.
You can check your username at usernamecheck.com/
tags:identity internetsBarracuda (The Deep Blue Sea Series)
December 19th, 2008 at 12:02 pm 0 comments.
I saw the TugBoat Printshop at Craftacular last weekend and I still want this print.
Barracuda (The Deep Blue Sea Series)
time lapse in antarctica
December 12th, 2008 at 12:31 pm 0 comments.
Antarctica from Jordan Manley on Vimeo.
30 Ways to Shock Yourself
December 11th, 2008 at 3:48 pm 0 comments.
From the book Elektroschutz in 132 Bildern, uploaded to flickr by Bre Pettis
See the whole set here.
street view coverage maps
December 9th, 2008 at 6:07 pm 0 comments.Google updated Street View in the US today and have expanded the coverage quite a bit. What used to be a series of small puffy blue clouds covering mostly metropolitan areas has now become are sea of blue covering much of the nation.
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interesting signup form at huffduffer.com
December 9th, 2008 at 11:33 am 0 comments.
The idea is great, feeling a bit of mad-libs and a little like – hey I am writing a personal note to this beta website that doesn’t yet have a public signup.
your phone keypad could have looked like this
December 8th, 2008 at 12:46 pm 0 comments.
While 3X3 + 1 wasn’t the most popular in the focus groups, that would be IV-B, it eventually won out. Some of the other designs make sense in as much as they have strong similarity to the dial used on phones previously. I do wonder though, if the prevalent use of the number keypad, in similar forms to the telephone keypad now found on ATMs, safes and my desktop keyboard would look different. Was the 3X3+1 configuration in use in other situations before the telephone company made the switch?
tags:telephone10 Lessons
December 3rd, 2008 at 2:12 pm 0 comments.Over at Design Observer remarks from Chris Pullman shares the 10 lessons he learned in his 35 years as the VP of Design at WGBH
1 Work on things that matter.
2 Work with people you like and respect.
3 Be nice.
4 Have high standards.
Don’t settle for “whatever.” The corrosive Dilbert mind-set is depressing and demeaning. Wherever you choose to work, don’t give it a foothold. I prefer the “see you and raise you one” escalation of good ideas, even crazy ideas. High standards is something that has set this place apart. Even in hard times, it is important to keep hold of this core distinction, whatever it costs.
5 Have a sense of humor.
6 Design is not the narrow application of formal skills, it is a way of thinking.
7 Variety is the spice of life.
8 Institutions have a character, just like people do.
9 We’re all in the “understanding business.”
10 You are what you eat.
Click over to Design Observer as each of the 10 items has some good insight.
Turkers power Amazon Remembers
December 3rd, 2008 at 11:42 am 0 comments.
Amazon released their iPhone app, Amazon Mobile, and it includes a feature called Amazon Remembers where you can take a photo of any item in the real world, and it is uploaded to Amazon where they match the item in your photo with items from Amazon or their affiliates, and then let you know once they do. The “amazing” part of this is the use of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk program to analyze and offer suggestions for the photos.
I fully expect some interestingness to come out of this.
tags:Amazon commerce iPhone the_futurenewspaper burger
December 1st, 2008 at 10:26 pm 0 comments.
Someone favorited this photo this evening thouroughly making my day, a full 18 months after I took the photo. I’m happy that I got to see it again and did fully laugh out loud (LOL)
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