“From ‘user experiences’ to ‘The Experience Economy’ to ‘designing for experiences,’ not to mention ‘brand experiences,’ ‘customer experience management,’ and ‘experiential marketing’ — experiences are definitely the topic du jour. But with so many different perspectives, each with substantial merit, I found myself asking what creates a great experience? ….Intent on resolving these various perspectives, I began exploring how it is that these different elements work together to complement each other. The resulting framework structures all the elements that contribute to a good (or bad!) experience, and provides a context for the various activities (both internal and external to an organization) that play a role in defining a person‚Äôs perception of a product or service.” (Thanks NIXON*NOW!)

“A single picture element (a ‘pixel’) of an LCD screen is actually composed of three ’sub-pixels’: one red, one green, and one blue (R-G-B). Taken together this sub-pixel triplet makes up what we’ve traditionally thought of as a single pixel… So: This means that if we were to treat the actual sub-pixels individually — ignoring their differing colors for the moment — we would have three times the horizontal resolution from our existing LCD display panels!”

“”Hacking Google’ isn’t exactly new. That is, using the search engine to look for confidential information. But as McAfee’s senior vice president for Risk Management George Kurtz demonstrated today at RSA conference, that didn’t prevent users and organisations to post those goodies online for anyone to find. ‘You almost get bored finding all these password files. It used to be fun in the old days when you found a password file. Now you just go to Google and find thousands of them,’ Kurtz said.”

“Schizophrenia has such a wide and varying range of symptoms that it is often considered more of a conglomerate of symptoms than a distinctly identifiable disorder. Even the symptoms themselves can be broken down into two main groupings: Negative and Positive symptoms.”

“St. Pete Times media critic Eric Deggans has a feature in today’s paper on Mario Garcia and his ‘reimagining’ of the Wall Street Journal, which will launch a redesigned and narrower paper next year.”

“You bring the skills. We bring the ingredients. Welcome to the Yahoo! Developer Network. We help software developers integrate their Web sites and applications with Yahoo! using standard technologies such as XML and RSS.”

“Yahoo! is expanding its distribution network to include you. Based on demand from online publishers, we are opening our Publisher Network to the broader publisher community. Through the expanded platform, we plan to offer unique products and services to publishers of all sizes.”

“Why do fashion, film, and music - the sultans of cool in our culture, the shapers of our consciousness - take such radically different approaches to the control ofcreativity?”

“I started letter-folding a few months ago, while letter-folding had caught the imagination of the members of the social bookmarking site del.icio.us. A popular link was to the large repository of folding letter designs at ghh.com. It was from this website that I learnt the florentine fold and instantly fell in love with it, and it is the florentine fold that the designs on this website are based on.”

“Dear New Yorker, New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Washington Post and others, Please stop using the term ‘web log’ to refer to a chronologically-ordered frequently-updated website. The correct term is ‘weblog’. Furthermore, ‘blog’ is not short for ‘web log’, it is short for ‘weblog’.”

“Fashion in Colors explores color as a design element through 300 years of western fashion. Costumes are grouped by color in a dramatic installation in Cooper-Hewitt’s galleries, allowing previously unseen details and structures of the clothes to emerge for the viewer and showing how similar elements and trends appear in dresses separated by hundreds of years.”

“Flowchart art uses a multilinear diagram that convey stories or experiences. Examples such as EGBG’s ‘Telemarketing Counterscript’ were discussed earlier on WRT in relation to interactive fiction mapping practices. Some other examples of flowchart art include works by Scott McCloud, Chris Ware, and Craig Robinson.” (Thanks Waxy!)

“Instructables is a venue for showing what you make and how others can make it… Instructables is a step-by-step collaboration system that helps you record and share your projects with a mixture of images, text, ingredient lists, CAD files, and more. We hope to make documentation simple and fast.”

“The Bank of Asia is a very famous building in Bangkok. It was made way back in 1985, and it’s robotic appearance is just a symbol of the modernization of banking. It also has the ability to transform into a mega-robot. So, if Godzilla ever decided to show his green face in the land of Bangkok, they would have to fight!”

“Always anticipated! Smashing and overexceeding projects of tantamount quality, ingeniosity and creativity. Speed travel through the past year, and rediscover amazing sites. As you will see, 2005, was indeed a very good year for design!”