http://www.informationbricolage.com building knowledge out of available noise... Fri, 02 May 2008 00:46:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Here are some great examples of what you can do with CSS. http://www.informationbricolage.com/2008/04/24/using-css-to-do-anything-50-creative-examples-and-tutorials/ A colleague of mine presented their work recently at the Google-plex. Check it out and see what they are up to. http://www.informationbricolage.com/2008/04/21/creating-incentives-for-people-to-share-public-gis-data/ (1) imply depth (2) to make type more readable (3) to imply speed (4) for an appealing background image (5) for a surreal feeling (6) for an illustrative or cartoony feel [via: tutorialblog] http://www.informationbricolage.com/2008/04/02/6-creative-reasons-to-apply-blur-to-photos/ The guys over at 456 Berea st have a nice review of Designing Web Navigation: Optimizing the User Experience. It seems like it could be a good read if you are confronting a tricky navigation problem http://www.informationbricolage.com/2008/04/02/designing-web-navigation-book-review/ A good 101 article with resources about grid-based design methods by Steven Snell http://www.informationbricolage.com/2008/03/25/grid-based-design-101/ Interactive game for Honda Motorcycles using Sudden Motion Sensor (SMS). SMS is Apple's motion-based hardware - and data-protection system used in their notebook computer systems. I'm really surprised that no one has done something like this sooner. You've got to check out the video. http://www.informationbricolage.com/2008/03/25/interactive-game-using-mac-laptop-sudden-motion-sensor/ If you're going to be in there area of the College of Design at Arizona State University from April 11-13, 2008, you should check out their free Design Research Symposium. Should be interesting. http://www.informationbricolage.com/2008/03/25/from-here-to-there-design-research-symposium/ We all know it, but sometimes its hard to prove with quantitative numbers. According to Bruce D. Temkin, Forrester has just published a report empirically linking customer experience to customer loyalty and purchasing decisions. [via: Customer Experience Matters] http://www.informationbricolage.com/2008/03/25/customer-experience-linked-to-customer-loyalty/ Within the last 24 hours I've been presented with several articles from friends and from regularly visited blogs that have to do with design methodologies or processes. I wanted to take a few minutes to discuss a few of my thoughts and observations. Lets start by reviewing the information that came ... http://www.informationbricolage.com/2008/03/12/design-process-and-methodologies-apple-microsoft-and-others/ Searchme, Inc. looks promising. I've been dabbling in search result visualization off-and-on for a while now. I think its a huge area for improvement. I'm not sure if the blatant use of cover-flow visualization is the right approach. I'll keep my eyes on this one. http://www.informationbricolage.com/2008/03/12/searchme-inc/