Wei Zhou, a ux designer, has created a LifeStream is a conceptual browser for Mozilla and has some fantastic ideas about browsing. I love the incorportation of weather into the details of what we browse and what we see. I believe it asks a question about ourselves, are we what we browse?
Marco nails it. I love the unbuttoned Apple track pad on the Macbook, I hate the Mighty Mouse, I love the translucent Menu Bar, I hate the refresh button in Safari 4. Certainly Apple is exploring something with their thinking, which is refreshing, I’m not positive it works entirely for me.
With both the new buttonless trackpads and the new iPod Shuffle, it seems that Apple’s going on an all-out war to eliminate as many buttons as possible from their products.
There’s a lot of value in simplifying controls, to a point. But nobody was complaining that either the laptop trackpads or the Shuffles had too many buttons before. In both cases, the devices are now worse off than they were before, but they look a bit cooler.
It’s easy to see signs of a perpetual internal battle at Apple between usability and appearance. Usually, they find a good balance and achieve high quality on both fronts. But sometimes the appearance-driving forces choke usability enough to leak toxic usability flaws into a shipping product. And I think, like 10.5.0’s translucent menu bar and slanty Dock, and Safari 4 Beta’s tab bar, and heavy shiny glass screens on lightweight laptops, and the Mighty Mouse, that this new Shuffle was a victim of the Apple style police defeating any semblance of common-sense usability.
F1 cars are simply some of the most complex moving objects on the face of the earth. Interestingly, the complexity has independently converged into a mostly consistent design among steering wheels. Unlike Nascar, F1 is an open spec on steering wheels which allows each team to come up with it’s own independent design. This gallery at oobject showcases the convergence of each team’s design with many many wheels exhibiting curious similartities.
via (daringfireball)
Rebranding for the purpose of refreshing an image isn’t an unnecessary exercise but it seems this execution was done poorly. If consumers think the new packaging blends into the aisle, well the brand team completely failed. I’m rather surprised Tropicana went back to appease it’s most loyal customers so quickly but perhaps it’s the technology creating a bigger soap box than in previous rebrands. Regardless, I’m now intensely curious about the re-refresh we will inevitably see from Tropicana.
Advertising - Tropicana Discovers Some Buyers Are Passionate About Packaging - NYTimes.com
From the Google Blog: Eye-tracking studies: more than meets the eye. Pretty much a recap of any heat diagram and previously done eye-study but nice to see in a condensed video.
I’ve finally redone this site after months of design and thinking through the goals of this namesake. The left sidebar outlines some of the details about me and on the right side is where the content moves. My love affair with Helvetica is obviously continuing and I consciously used a non-color palette so the content pops. Overall, I wanted to create a space that was very clean, efficient to read and easy to navigate. I have to do some more testing with the IE browsers but overall, I’m happy and I hope your happy too.
Any thoughts on the redesign are always appreciated, comment away or find me on the interweb.
