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BlogsTags > designFour short links: 13 May 2013By Nat TorkingtonMay 13, 2013 Exploiting a Bug in Google Glass — unbelievably detailed and yet easy-to-follow explanation of how the bug works, how the author found it, and how you can exploit it too. The second guide was slightly more technical, so when he … UX Is about Much More than Making Stuff Look PrettyBy Mary TreselerMay 9, 2013 Travis Lowdermilk (@tlowdermilk) is a software developer who recently joined Microsoft as UX Designer for Visual Studio. He hosts the Windows Developer Show and advocates for User-Centered Design (UCD). Travis is the author of User-Centered Design: A Developer’s Guide to … Four short links: 9 May 2013By Nat TorkingtonMay 9, 2013 On Google’s Ingress Game (ReadWrite Web) — By rolling out Ingress to developers at I/O, Google hopes to show how mobile, location, multi-player and augmented reality functions can be integrated into developer application offerings. In that way, Ingress becomes a … How to Develop for the Mobile Casual Gaming MarketBy Jenn WebbMay 8, 2013 HTML5 is becoming a larger and larger part of game design—so much so that Jesse Freeman (@jessefreeman) expects the future of HTML5 gaming to go beyond the browser. In the following interview, Freeman, a technology evangelist at Microsoft focusing on … Drupal for DesignersBy Meghan BlanchetteApril 30, 2013 Dani Nordin (@danigrrl) is an O’Reilly author (Drupal for Designers) and UX designer. We sat down recently to catch up on her current projects and her predictions for the future of Drupal design. She shared some best practices for designing, … Four short links: 25 April 2013By Nat TorkingtonApril 24, 2013 Alcatraz — package manager for iOS. (via Hacker News) Scarfolk Council — clever satire, the concept being a UK town stuck in 1979. Tupperware urns, “put old people down at birth”. The 1979 look is gorgeous. (via BoingBoing) Stop Designing … Four short links: 23 April 2013By Nat TorkingtonApril 23, 2013 Drawscript — Processing for Illustrator. (via BERG London) Archive Team Warrior — a virtual archiving appliance. You can run it to help with the ArchiveTeam archiving efforts. It will download sites and upload them to our archive. (via Ed Vielmetti) … Designing resilient communitiesBy Andy OramApril 15, 2013 In the open source and free software movement, we always exalt community, and say the people coding and supporting the software are more valuable than the software itself. Few communities have planned and philosophized as much about community-building as ZeroMQ. … Code Simplicity: The science of software designBy Max Kanat-AlexanderApril 10, 2013 If you want to be a better programmer, a good first step would be to choose an area of software development to take additional responsibility for. Now, when we say “responsibility,” we don’t mean the sort of “you’re to blame … Aereo’s copyright solution: intentional inefficiencyBy Mac SlocumApril 3, 2013 Aereo, an online service that sends free over-the-air television broadcasts to subscribers, scored a big win in court this week. At first glance, it would seem the service has to violate copyright. Aereo is grabbing TV content without paying for … Four short links: 15 March 2013By Nat TorkingtonMarch 15, 2013 Consumer Heterogeneity and Paid Search Effectiveness: A Large Scale Field Experiment (PDF) — We find that new and infrequent users are positively influenced by ads but that existing loyal users whose purchasing behavior is not influenced by paid search account … Four short links: 12 March 2013By Nat TorkingtonMarch 12, 2013 One Tab — turn tabs into lists, easily. (via Andy Baio) Deep Impact: Unintended Consequences of Journal Rank — These data confirm previous suspicions: using journal rank as an assessment tool is bad scientific practice. Moreover, the data lead us … Four short links: 8 March 2013By Nat TorkingtonMarch 8, 2013 mlcomp — a free website for objectively comparing machine learning programs across various datasets for multiple problem domains. Printing Code: Programming and the Visual Arts (Vimeo) — Rune Madsen’s talk from Heroku’s Waza. (via Andrew Odewahn) What Data Brokers Know … Four short links: 25 February 2013By Nat TorkingtonFebruary 25, 2013 Xenotext — Sci Foo Camper Christian Bök is closer to his goal of “living poetry”: A short stanza enciphered into a string of DNA and injected into an “unkillable” bacterium, Bök’s poem is designed to trigger the micro-organism to create … …and along with EPUB 3: New CSS!By Nellie McKessonFebruary 11, 2013 Hopefully you all read Sanders Kleinfeld’s great writeup about O’Reilly’s move to EPUB 3, and the changes and challenges that brings. Along with updating our toolchain, we also revisited our EPUB design and took a stab at improving the user … Four short links: 11 February 2013By Nat TorkingtonFebruary 11, 2013 How Virtual Fences Will Transform Rural America (The Atlantic) — When it comes to managing animals, every conventional fence that I have ever built has been in the wrong place the next year. Stately — a font of states which … Design matters more than mathBy Alistair CrollFebruary 8, 2013 At Strata Santa Clara later this month, we’re reprising what has become a tradition: Great Debates. These Oxford-style debates pit two teams against one another to argue a hot topic in the fields of big data, ubiquitous computing, and emerging … Four short links: 5 February 2013By Nat TorkingtonFebruary 5, 2013 toolbar — tooltips in jQuery, cf hint.css which is tooltips in CSS. Security Engineering — 2ed now available online for free. (via /r/netsec) Economics of Netflix’s $100M New Show (The Atlantic) — Up until now, Netflix’s strategy has involved paying … Four short links: 4 February 2013By Nat TorkingtonFebruary 4, 2013 Hands on Learning (HuffPo) — Unfortunately, engaged and enlightened tinkering is disappearing from contemporary American childhood. (via BoingBoing) FlashProxy (Stanford) — a miniature proxy that runs in a web browser. It checks for clients that need access, then conveys data … Four short links: 1 February 2013By Nat TorkingtonFebruary 1, 2013 Icon Fonts are Awesome — yes, yes they are. (via Fog Creek) What the Rails Security Issue Means for Your Startup — excellent, clear, emphatic advice on how and why security matters and what it looks like when you take … PDF is still “better”By Nellie McKessonJanuary 30, 2013 A few weeks ago, I surprised myself. I had decided to learn a new code language, and O’Reilly of course has a great little book about this particular language, so I pulled up the eBook files, and almost without thinking, … Publishing News: Ownshelf tests ebook lending watersBy Jenn WebbJanuary 18, 2013 Here are a few stories from the publishing space that caught my attention this week. Pushing the envelope in ebook lending innovation Martin Bryant at The Next Web took a look at this week at Ownshelf, a startup looking to … Four short links: 14 January 2013By Nat TorkingtonJanuary 14, 2013 Open Source Metrics — Talking about the health of the project based on a single metric is meaningless. It is definitely a waste of time to talk about the health of a project based on metrics like number of software … Four short links: 11 January 2013By Nat TorkingtonJanuary 11, 2013 How to Redesign Your App Without Pissing Everybody Off (Anil Dash) — the basic straightforward stuff that gets your users on-side. Anil’s making a career out of being an adult. Clockwork Raven (Twitter) — open source project to send data … Four short links: 8 January 2013By Nat TorkingtonJanuary 8, 2013 13 Design Trends for 2013 — many of these coalesced what I’ve seen in websites recently, but I was particularly intrigued by the observation that search’s growing importance to apps is being reflected in larger searchboxes. How Twitter Gets In … Four short links: 1 January 2013By Nat TorkingtonJanuary 1, 2013 Robots Will Take Our Jobs (Wired) — I agree with Kevin Kelly that (in my words) software and hardware are eating wetware, but disagree that This is not a race against the machines. If we race against them, we lose. … Big, open and more networked than ever: 10 trends from 2012By Alex HowardDecember 22, 2012 In 2012, technology-accelerated change around the world was driven by the wave of social media, data and mobile devices. In this year in review, we look back at some of the stories that mattered here at Radar and look ahead … Four short links: 21 December 2012By Nat TorkingtonDecember 21, 2012 Amazon’s Product Development Technique — the product manager should keep iterating on the press release until they’ve come up with benefits that actually sound like benefits. Iterating on a press release is a lot less expensive than iterating on the … Four short links: 20 December 2012By Nat TorkingtonDecember 20, 2012 Use The Index, Luke — free ebook on tuning SQL database access. CamanJS — Instagram-like filters in Javascript, permissively-licensed open source. (via VentureBeat) Don’t Stick That There — USB device pretending to be a keyboard. The benefit of this is … Four short links: 19 December 2012By Nat TorkingtonDecember 19, 2012 10 Trends That Are Changing Cities Forever (Business Insider) — the only one of these “The n (Massive|Coming|IBM|Important|Critical|Deadly|Brobdignagian) Trends That Will Transform <noun> Forever And Herald The End of Days So Grab Your Ankles And Kiss Your Ass Goodbye Sinners … Four short links: 12 December 2012By Nat TorkingtonDecember 12, 2012 Kiwi Bond Films Are The Most Violent (Peter Griffin) — it wasn’t always furry-footed plucky adventurers in Middle Earth, my friends. Included to show that you can take an evidence-based approach to almost any argument. Are Githubbers Taking Open Source … Reading experience and mobile designBy Travis AlberDecember 5, 2012 It’s all about user experience. Once you get past whether a book is available on a particular reading platform, the experience is the distinguishing factor. How do you jump back to the table of contents? How do you navigate to … Four short links: 30 November 2012By Nat TorkingtonNovember 30, 2012 Kids Use Minecraft to Design School — “Students have been massively enthusiastic, with many turning up early to school to work on their Minecraft designs and they continue to do so at home too.” Also see the school’s blog. Napster, … Four short links: 21 November 2012By Nat TorkingtonNovember 21, 2012 gboom — commandline tool for making gists. Pixel Based Websites — great collection of Javascript tools for working with sprites and backgrounds. Indie Game The Movie: Case Study — lessons learned, lots of detail, about the self-publishing crowdfunding success story … InDesign vs. CSSBy Adam HydeNovember 19, 2012 The explosion in web typesetting has been largely unnoticed by everyone except the typography geeks. One of the first posts that raised my awareness of this phenomenon was From Print to Web: Creating Print-Quality Typography in the Browser by Joshua Gross. It … Four short links: 24 October 2012By Nat TorkingtonOctober 24, 2012 Restoration of Defocused and Blurry Images — impressive demos, and open source (GPLv3) code. All those blurred faces and documents no longer seem so safe. Peter Molyneux Profile in Wired — worth reading for: (a) Molyneux’s contribution to the genre; … Four short links: 16 October 2012By Nat TorkingtonOctober 16, 2012 cir.ca — news app for iPhone, which lets you track updates and further news on a given story. (via Andy Baio) DataWrangler (Stanford) — an interactive tool for data cleaning and transformation. Spend less time formatting and more time analyzing … If 'git reset' Is Not Your Favorite Command...By Phlip PlumleeOctober 15, 2012 No matter what your version control system, your command to throw away a batch of changes is your best friend -- if you use your test rig correctly. Four short links: 12 October 2012
By Nat TorkingtonOctober 12, 2012 Code Talks and Designers Don’t Speak the Language (Crystal Beasley) — Many of the bugs, however, require a deep understanding of why the product exists in the marketplace and a thorough understanding of the research that underpins the project. These … Four short links: 27 September 2012
By Nat TorkingtonSeptember 27, 2012 Paying for Developers is a Bad Idea (Charlie Kindel) — The companies that make the most profit are those who build virtuous platform cycles. There are no proof points in history of virtuous platform cycles being created when the platform … Congress launches Congress.gov in beta, doesn’t open the data
By Alex HowardSeptember 19, 2012 The Library of Congress is now more responsive — at least when it comes to web design. Today, the nation’s repository for its laws launched a new beta website at Congress.gov and announced that it would eventually replace Thomas.gov, the … Four short links: 11 September 2012
By Nat TorkingtonSeptember 10, 2012 Liz Neely Talks 3D Digitisation, 3D Printing (Seb Chan) — On July 19th, Tom and Mike Moceri arrived at the Art Institute dock in a shiny black SUV with a BATMAN license plate and a trunk packed with a couple … Four short links: 6 September 2012
By Nat TorkingtonSeptember 6, 2012 ENCODE Project — International project (headed by Ewan Birney of BioPerl fame) doxes the human genome, bigtime. See the Nature piece, and Ed Yong’s explanation of the awesome for more. Not only did they release the data, but also the … The complexity of designing for everywhereBy Jenn WebbAugust 14, 2012 In her new book The Mobile Frontier, author Rachel Hinman (@Hinman) says the mobile design space is a wide-open frontier, much like space exploration or the Wild West, where people have room to “explore and invent new and more human … On co-creation, contests and crowdsourcing
By Mark SigalAugust 2, 2012 I had decided to update the branding at one of my companies, and that meant re-thinking my logo. Here’s the old logo: The creative exercise started with a logo design contest posting at 99designs, an online marketplace for crowdsourced graphic … Four short links: 2 August 2012
By Nat TorkingtonAugust 2, 2012 Patton Oswalt’s Letters to Both Sides — You guys need to stop thinking like gatekeepers. You need to do it for the sake of your own survival. Because all of us comedians after watching Louis CK revolutionize sitcoms and comedy … Four short links: 31 July 2012
By Nat TorkingtonJuly 31, 2012 Christchurch’s Shot at Being Innovation Central (Idealog) — Christchurch, rebuilding a destroyed CBD after earthquakes, has released plans for the new city. I hope there’s budget for architects and city developers to build visible data, sensors, etc. so the Innovation … The dark side of dataBy Mike LoukidesJuly 23, 2012 A few weeks ago, Tom Slee published “Seeing Like a Geek,” a thoughtful article on the dark side of open data. He starts with the story of a Dalit community in India, whose land was transferred to a group of … Data Jujitsu: The art of turning data into product July 17, 2012 Having worked in academia, government and industry, I’ve had a unique opportunity to build products in each sector. Much of this product development has been around building data products. Just as methods for general product development have steadily improved, so … Four short links: 12 July 2012
By Nat TorkingtonJuly 12, 2012 Mozilla Persona -- single sign-on for the web. Interview with Alan Kay (Dr Dobbs Journal) -- The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made. When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free? The Web,... 1 to 50 of 325 Next Stay Connected
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