William Ian O'Byrne sur Twitter : "Great primer on how to think visually #infographics #data #design. How to Think Visually. How to Think Visually Using Visual Analogies infographic from Anna Vital gives a great variety of examples for anyone to use when you create your own graphics. It begins with the most recognizable visuals, circle graphs and diagrams. Further down are abstract analogies. They are reminiscent of physical objects, but they are simplified and abstract. Next, we have regular analogies that look like the physical objects you are familiar with. The final category are allegories. These are stories, or a series of analogies.
The key is that these stories are familiar enough that we don’t have to retell them, but we should analogize every part of them. Most research in cognitive science explores how we see things but little research is done on how we understand what we see.Understanding is the ultimate test of how good your visualization is. As part of the infographic landing page, Anna has included a text description of each visual analogy.
Juandoming : #Designing new #literacíes ... Artist Feature Greg Papagrigoriou. Greg Papagrigoriou and Simek Greg Papagrigoriou is an Artist relatively new to the wall painting scene. You wouldn’t be able to tell by looking at his most recent group of work. Greg approaches walls with the traditional graffiti subject, letters and type. The difference is clear though as his walls are not from the NY school of letters, but from the ancient and type based calligraphic school of letters. “My first contact with letters began when I was a student at the School of Graphic Design in Athens. WriteOnIt - Fake pictures.
Web Publishing: Create your own logo with LogoYes. PLCH - Virtual Library. Recreating the button. Until some future version of HTML gives us new native controls to use in a browser, at Google, we’ve been playing and experimenting with controls we call “custom buttons” in our apps (among other custom controls). These buttons just launched in Gmail yesterday, and they’ve been in Google Reader for two months now.
The buttons are designed to look very similar to basic HTML input buttons. But they can handle multiple interactions with one basic design. The buttons we’re using are imageless, and they’re created entirely using HTML and CSS, plus some JavaScript to manage the behavior. They’re also easily skinnable with a few lines of CSS, which was a key factor now that Gmail has themes. I thought it would be interesting to provide a portion of the background on our buttons here, and discuss some of the iterations we’ve been through so far to get to the current state.
Background Today’s web apps allow increasingly complex interactions. Enter: the concept of custom buttons. The first iteration.