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8th February 2006

qwerky

“This is qwerky, notebook of the weirdest new webapp names.”

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8th February 2006

The Art of the Incremental Redesign

“I wonder if we’re at all reaching a point where the maturity of our Web design can start to approach the timeless. From a usability perspective, aren’t incremental improvements are almost always appreciated more than radical refactoring?”

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8th February 2006

the Art of DeTouch

“The Art of DeTouch explores the manipulation of images related to the human form. Drawing photographs from existing online portfolio sites of professional re-touch artists, this application allows a user to explore precisely how the images were altered. Using Processing, an open source programming language and environment, before and after images are compared algorithmically pixel by pixel to generate visualizations of the alterations.”

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8th February 2006

Typeface Legibility for Older Viewers with Vision Problems

“The population is rapidly aging and becoming a larger share of the marketplace. 13 percent of the population is currently over 65 years old. In 30 years that group will double to 66 million people. People change as they age. Sensory, cognitive and motor abilities decline. The built environment is not typically created with the needs of the aging population in mind. How does the choice of typeface in signage systems, for example, impact the older viewer who is experiencing vision problems typical to that age group? Are certain typefaces more suitable to the aging eye?”

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