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23rd August 2007

Content-Aware Image Sizing

“This video by Dr. Ariel Shamir shows off presentation on content-aware image sizing. It demonstrates a software application that resizes images in such a way that the content of the image is preserved intelligently.”

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23rd August 2007

Transition from Visual Design to Interaction Design

“Over the past month at Planet Argon, I’ve been taking on more interaction design work. Mostly because there’s a gap to be filled with all the design work on our plate, but also because I said I was willing to take it on. Visual design to interaction design doesn’t seem like a huge transition on the surface (it’s all design right?), but it has really been a challenge.

Maybe I’m still hanging out in the web standards design blogosphere too much, but finding IxD & IA blogs to read have been few and far between. The ones I have found get updated once every 8 months or so. In an effort to spread the knowledge, here are some initial thoughts and experiences from an IxD n00b…” (Thanks Airbag!)

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23rd August 2007

InfoVis Toolkit

“The InfoVis Toolkit is a Interactive Graphics Toolkit written in Java to ease the development of Information Visualization applications and components… The InfoVis Toolkit, as of version 0.9, implements nine (9) types of visualization: Scatter Plots, Time Series, Parallel Coordinates and Matrices for tables; Node-Link diagrams, Icicle trees and Treemaps for trees; Adjacency Matrices and Node-Link diagrams for graphs.”

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23rd August 2007

Blueprint Grid CSS Generator

“This tool will help you generate more flexible versions of Blueprint’s grid.css and compressed.css and grid.png files. Whether you prefer 8, 10 or 16 columns in your design, this generator now enables you that flexibility with Blueprint.”

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