19th
January
2007
“Expanding the number of options often comes at the cost of finding solutions. Nowhere is this trend more evident than online—and the stakes have never been higher. Increasingly, our most significant decisions—such as whether or not to have a medical procedure or how to best to plan for retirement—are being made using web-based applications. As it turns out, many are poorly suited to helping us sort through the ever-growing range of possibilities. So why do these interfaces so often fail us when we need them most? And what unique challenges are there in designing systems that help us make high-stakes decisions?”
posted in Interface design | Permalink |
19th
January
2007
“Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which is celebrating its 50th birthday this year) as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives. Helvetica will begin screening at film festivals worldwide starting in March, followed by cinema screenings across the US and Europe, and the DVD release.”
posted in Movies/TV, Typography | Permalink |
19th
January
2007
“¡Journalista! is TCJ.com’s news and commentary weblog, updated every weekday. Its author, Dirk Deppey, served as Managing Editor of The Comics Journal for just over two years. He lives somewhere in Southern Arizona, and hopes to someday figure out how to fix the timestamp on this page.”
posted in Comics | Permalink |
19th
January
2007
“While visiting the webernator, one gets a general impression of the people who are visiting a site by either the quality of the site itself or the comments that are left behind by other users. Using a set of complex algorithms and several neural networks, Newsicus would like to present what the average user of each of select websites is like in photographic form.” (Thanks Magnetbox!)
posted in Et cetera | Permalink |
19th
January
2007
I’m in the midst of doing some rearranging category-wise. I killed the long-inactive “3d” and “Censorship” categories and moved those posts into other relevant areas. Will probably make some more adjustments over the next few weeks.
posted in XPLANE | Permalink |
