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Ikea vs. Apple. Email usability: The science of keeping it short and sweet. You’ve probably heard the advice, ‘Keep your email campaign short and sweet’, often followed by, ‘… because no-one’s going to read loads of copy, anyway’. As much as this seems like commonsense, we’ve all seen clients attempt to cram in as much information as possible, oblivious to reason. I believe this is largely due to another school of thought, which goes along the lines of, “My subscribers have signed up because they obviously want to read all about my brand values and 5 year plan.” With a lack of hard evidence to the contrary on hand, this can be an frustrating argument to dismiss. See no email… I was skimming through Jakob Nielsen’s research recently and came across a little gem in the form of an eyetracking heatmap. Based on data collected from recipients of an email newsletter, it denotes the areas where they looked the most in red and the least in blue: From: ‘Email Newsletters: Surviving Inbox Congestion’ - Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox, June 12, 2006 Ouch.

NoteSlate /// intuitively simple monochrome paper alike tablet device. Home. Vector Image Portal. Honda Jazz 'This Unpredictable Life' iPhone app demo video. London 2012 Olympics Map Points to the Future of Cartography. One challenge faced by any city ramping up its local services in advance of hosting the Olympics: You can't put any old company's logo out there for the world to see unless they've inked a hefty sponsorship deal and/or been named as an official contractor. That means even the lettering on the side of the construction vehicles building your new stadium will get painted out in press photos.

Online, where almost everything is branded, from YouTube to Flickr, this gets tricky, especially when it comes to mapping--yep, you guessed it--no using Google Maps. So LOCOG (the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games) tapped SF-based collective Stamen Design to build a custom map for the London 2012 website, a beautiful and radical departure from off-the-shelf mapping programs that makes full use of that pupil-rattling logo. Poke around a bit on the map and you'll start to notice the impressive navigational capabilities that have you zipping into central London in no time. Marco Rotoli – Selected work. The making of a Light Session- Tron Premiere- ENESS. The Square Grid - A simple CSS framework for designers and developers. Music - Blur. AdWall - Interactive Projection Wall - 18m Projection Wall Birmingham Airport - Motion Sensitive Projeciton Wall - Building Projection. Smartasacalculator.com.

Illustrator Template Toolbox for Web, Mobile and App Developers | Speckyboy Design Magazine. For today’s post we have an extensive selection of UI templates, all in Illustrator format, and all perfect if you are a web, mobile or app designer who prefers to use Adobe Illustrator rather than the more commonly used Photoshop. It was mildly surprising how difficult this post was to put together, I really did expect to find a lot more.

What is clear from this is that generally most designers would not even consider Illustrator for UI design, which was an even bigger surprise. So, if you are a UI designer who does prefer Illustrator over everything else, then you may consider this post as your treasure chest. iPad Wireframe Template (.eps) License: This file must not be hosted on any other site but you are free to use it. iPad Vector GUI Elements (.ai) iPhone Sketch-Like Elements (.ai) iPhone UI Vector Elements (.ai) Illustrator Template for iPhone Design (.ai) Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License”> iPhone 4 Vector Template (.ai & .eps) Touch Notation (.ai) Yahoo Design Stencils. Matt Freeman Design solutions. SharonTanPF® Leif Michelsen, London based Interactive Designer and Art Director.

Victor Velho .Digital Designer. RIM’s Plans for 2011 Leaked. 28 January '11, 02:34am Follow BGR has just posted leaks from Crackberry.com of what appears to be RIM’s plans for 2011 and the first quarter of 2012. The images below highlight confidential roll-out plans for devices such as the Sedona, Malibu and Monaco. It also shows key features for an improved keyboard, enhanced gaming and features of liquid graphics technology. The leaked Montana (Bold Touch) specs show the device will sport a 5mp camera and will do HD recording at 720p. The Monaco Touch is one of the sexiest BlackBerry we’re seen and it seems to have a thin and light curved body. Infinite Scrolling Best Practices. By anthony on 12/23/10 at 1:06 am Infinite scrolling is a new interface technique you’ll find popping up on various websites.

It allows users to browse through content without clicking on pagination links. Instead, all users have to do is scroll to the bottom of the page and new content will automatically load on the current page. This not only cuts the clicking, but it also cuts the need to load new pages. This new and efficient way to browse content has many advantages. However, implementing this interface technique doesn’t come without its best practices. Here are a few best practices to follow to make sure that your infinite scrolling meets user expectations. Keep the navigation bar persistently visible When you scroll down a normal web page, the navigation bar gradually loses its visibility. Give users feedback when loading new content When new content is loading, users need a clear sign that the website is doing this. Show how much content has loaded and how much is left. 10 Cool Crowdsourced Music Video Projects.

What better way for an artist to engage with his or her fans than by collaborating with them? Although just 10 years ago this would have been an arduous undertaking, collaborative music video projects are now possible thanks to social media and the wonders of the web. From asking fans to record themselves singing along to a song, to getting fans to draw frames of film, there have been some really interesting crowdsourcing ideas emerging of late.

Here we bring you 10 examples of such musical projects, both completed and ongoing. Have a read and, if you're feeling social, why not jump in and get involved? 1. One Frame of Fame C-Mon & Kypski have turned to the web to help make the music video for their song "More is Less. " 2. Shawn Madden invited his friends and fans via YouTube to send in footage of themselves having fun. 3. Described as a unique, global, communal work of art, the Johnny Cash Project is an amazing tribute to the man in black. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. What inspires the UK’s top digital production companies? In putting together the list of the top UK digital production companies, I asked each agency what really inspired them over the last 3 months.

Here is what they said: Your Mum Unit9 The Third & The Seventh from Alex Roman on Vimeo. Stink Digital The quite fantastic Utweet campaign Rehab Make your own IS Parade here. Pirata Check out the site here. Disqo B-reel What has inspired you the most in the last three months? Hey, like this post? TRENDLAND: FASHION & TREND BLOG * ART * DESIGN * PHOTOGRAPHY * CULTURE. The Wilderness Downtown (HTML5)

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